Managing Your Leadership Career in Law: A Partner's Guide (Elgar Guides to Professional Skills for Lawyers)

In this practical and insightful book, Dr Nigel Spencer and Mike Mister provide expert guidance to both aspiring and established law firm leaders, to help them to successfully navigate the specific leadership challenges partners face in private practice environments. Offering a unique practitioner perspective, they cover what partners need to know, do, and what skills they need to develop, at each step of their leadership journey.

Key features:

• Engaging and accessible writing style
• Guidance on how partners can effectively manage career transition points
• A series of best-practice case study ‘stories’ on how law firm partners can best lead in different situations
• Practical tips for law firm leaders based on the authors’ own experience as coaches and consultants specialising in law firm leadership development.

Managing Your Leadership Career in Law is an indispensable guide for partners in private practice law firms across the globe. Senior and Managing Partners seeking to maximise the effectiveness of their leadership cohort will also benefit from the guidance offered, as well as academics and students learning about private practice law firm leadership, and management in the legal sector more generally.

Nigel Spencer, Executive Coach, Director of the Hub for Professional Practice and Professor of Practice and Education Innovation, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London, Former Associate Fellow, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK and Mike Mister, Partner, Professional Services Firms International (PSFI) LLP, Senior Fellow, Human Capital; The Conference Board; and Honorary Professor, Hub for Professional Practice, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London, UK