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Legal Career Development Plans™
Resources to help career development planning in your legal team
The Problem
Most lawyers spend more time planning a weekend away than they do planning their careers.
Related challenges include:
- career planning is a hugely overlooked feature of legal team operations
- many career plans tend to be superficial “box ticking” exercise
- fewer than 10% of in-house lawyers have an active career plan
- lawyers are susceptible to corporate promises which are rarely realized
- inherent lawyer workloads make it difficult to find time to plan your career
- career planning is not a skill set taught at university
- the growth and development needs of lawyer is not a typical priority in many workplaces
- certain “old school” legal team leaders do not encourage team member advancement
- the inability to gain insights as to how successful legal career plans are produced
Wouldn't it be great to if you could access a proven and practical career legal career planning resource to help you?
The GLS Solution
GLS IHL Career Development Plans™ is a comprehensive toolkit to help your legal team members develop a meaningful, practical and action oriented legal career development plan to help them reach their professional goals.
Instilling a career development program into your legal team is an excellent way to demonstrate that you value their career goals, job satisfaction, and livelihood, while at the same time ensuring a positive and supportive team culture.
Derived from GLS' work with thousands of in-house lawyers, this toolkit provides a detailed model framework for your career plan along with extensive guidance notes to help team members to efficiently produce meaningful career plans.
The toolkit helps your team members traverse a wide range of planning considerations including:
- career mission/vision statements
- defining essential career milestones
- recognizing career options
- short term versus long term goals
- essential skills to be acquired
- developing your career advancement network
- capturing your experience - being what you sell
- “New Law” skills that you must acquire
- capturing genuine “value add" contributions
- support you need from employer
- metrics to judge success/progress
- how to make the legal industry to work for you
- common career planning pitfalls to avoid
For legal team leaders who wish to retain their talented team members - implementing and supporting legal team career development plans is not a “nice to have” - it is a must.
And, for individual lawyers, as of 2022, you are operating in an environment of unprecedented change and opportunity - you literally can have whatever kind of career you wish - but only if you have a plan.
Usefully, this solution offers a range of additional support option including: legal career development plan training sessions and mentoring services that provide your lawyers access to independent career support.
So, if you are serious about your career/ your team members' careers, as most lawyers say they are, then this solution will help you put in place a plan to chart your success.
Problem Solved.
Solution Deliverables
Solution Features
| GLS IHL Career Development Plans™ | a GLS module/tool kit to help you intuitively and efficiently develop a powerful plan for your legal career |
| Planning Your In-House Career | a 90 minute GLS premium training module - please see product details in the Knowhow Solutions Channel - delivered at the “Basic” Tier level. |
| GLS Career Mentoring (1 to 1 initial consult) | an initial 1 hour career consultation package with a GLS mentor to help review and work through your career development plan |
| GLS Ongoing Mentoring (1 yr package) | a four hour package of 15 minute mentoring consults for you to use over the course of a year to bring accountability to the implementation of your career plan |
Solution SLA Options and US$ Pricing
| Column one | Column two | Column three | Column four | Column five |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLS IHL Career Development Plans™ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| GLS Career Mentoring (1 to 1 initial consult) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| GLS Legal Career Development Training | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| GLS Ongoing Mentoring (1 yr package) | ✓ | |||
| Price (excl. VAT) | $299 | $799 | $2,999 | $4,999 |
Pricing Comparison
| Big Law Review | US Rate | GLS Cost | Minutes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partner | $850 | $299 | 0h 21m |
| Senior Associate | $640 | $299 | 0h 28m |
| Blended Rate | $520 | $299 | 0h 34m |
| Associate | $480 | $299 | 0h 37m |
| Junior Associate | $420 | $299 | 0h 43m |
GLS RPLV Legal Operations Score
This solution’s GLS RPLV impact score:
| Resource Status: | Specialist | Repeater | Formative |
| Ease of Implementation: | Complex | Average | Easy |
| Value Demonstration/Visibility: | Low | Medium | High |
| Productivity Leverage Profile: | Low | Medium | High |
| IHL Line Optimisation: | Single | Multiple | All Lines |
IHL Critical Function Optimisation Targets
This solution enhances performance across the following critical in-house functions:
In-House Legal: Critical Functions / Processes
General Counsel
Human Capital
Performance
Knowledge
GLS has identified 15 critical in-house processes/functions that are present in every world-class legal department. To learn what these functions are, their composition and how they interrelate to deliver efficient legal team performance outcomes - visit here.
