Information on how to manage people in law firms has been sorely lacking until now. “Lawyers as Managers: How to Be a Champion for Your Firm and Employees,” a newly released book from the American Bar Association, gives you everything that you didn’t learn in law school about managing people. In addition to helping you learn how to deal with the challenging people in your law firm, the book is a primer, guide and roadmap on how to empower, motivate and inspire everyone in your law firm — including you.
Few lawyers enter the profession with management experience or knowledge. All too often they must learn to manage their firm’s most significant asset — its people — on the fly and without a great deal of support. Today more than ever, all members of a firm must work together as a team for the benefit of its clients. Coordinating and getting the most out of everyone’s contributions is the responsibility of a firm’s managers, whether they are lawyers or administrators.
This book will accelerate your growth as a manager of lawyers and legal professionals. It is a handbook you can turn to if you’re in a position of authority, or as you gradually assume greater managerial responsibilities. It’s a comprehensive and practical guide that includes the checklists, charts and resources attorneys and their managers need to lead thriving and resilient firms.
The 480-page book is divided into four sections, with an array of sub-topics. Section titles are:
• An Introduction to People Management
• The Champion Manager Toolkit: What Every Champion Manager Needs to Know and Do
• Managing Specific Individuals and Situations
• Becoming the Complete Champion Manager
About the authors:
Andrew Elowitt, JD, MBA, PCC, worked for more than 20 years in law firms and as the head of a corporate legal department before becoming a practice management consultant and professional certified coach. He is the managing director of New Actions LLC, a firm that specializes in talent, strategy and leadership development for law firms, businesses and government agencies.
Marcia Watson Wasserman has more than 25 years of experience as a legal management professional and is founder and president of Comprehensive Management Solutions, Inc., in Northridge, Calif., which provides C.O.O. To Go™ services to boutique and mid-sized law firms.
- Posted January 18, 2018
- Tweet This | Share on Facebook
New ABA book will help lawyers accelerate their growth as managers
headlines Washtenaw County
- Law firm donates legal fees to ACLU of Michigan
- Foster Swift selects Taylor A. Gast as Business & Tax Practice co-leader
- MLaw Civil-Criminal Litigation Clinic partners on suit against online “ghost gun” seller
- Student in the Dual JD Program explores criminal defense work
- ABA Free Legal Answers announces 2023 leaders lending pro bono support
headlines National
- 50 Years of Service: ABA has been a ‘stalwart ally’ for LSC funding
- ACLU and BigLaw firm use ‘Orange is the New Black’ in hashtag effort to promote NY jail reform
- Biden recalls time he bluffed knowledge of torts case and why he changed his mind about civil-trial work
- Lawyers’ ‘barrage of personal attacks’ on opponents started with tissue-box toss, appeals court says
- Longtime prosecutor resigns after judge tosses him from case, citing Perry Mason-type revelations
- 24% of law students expect to work in public service, survey says