Is your firm’s valuable time still being thrown away through ineffective training of new lawyers?
The New Lawyer Accelerator Program
Most senior lawyers dream of being freed up to get on with your higher-level work while a junior attends to the more day-to-day tasks. But while newly admitted lawyers might have a solid standard of academic legal knowledge, plenty of enthusiasm and a willingness to learn, they are usually missing the basic practical skills that are essential for operating effectively in daily legal practice.
It takes a lot of time, thought and attention if you want to properly fill in all those blanks for a new starter. Since we’re talking about the really bottom-line basics of practical skills, you’ll be answering questions like:
- How do you prepare a brief?
- What information are you supposed to include in a time sheet?
- Is there a way that you want all of these documents organised?
- I’ve never taken a telephone inquiry before – what’s the best way of handling it?
- Are there steps that I should be following to take instructions from clients?
- You’ve asked me to arrange a conference – what do you want me to do?
- Can you tell me what I’m supposed to do to prepare for this court appearance?
And usually what happens is that your explanations lead to even more questions as they get stuck, make errors and circle around in what, for them, can be an overwhelming learning curve.
Which means that, on top of your existing workload, you’ve somehow got to find even more time to fit in constantly correcting mistakes, squeezing in supervision sessions to show new lawyers how to do things and explaining what has to be done on the run.
Which, as well as cutting into your billable time, sort of defeats the whole purpose of taking on a junior in the first place – there’s already too little of you to go round, but instead of lightening your load,
you end up adding your load!
But now you can avoid all of those problems because the New Lawyer Accelerator Program provides you with a simple and effective solution to your training needs.
It’s a one-stop shop that delivers a structured training program covering all the essential practical skills that new lawyers need to know in an easy-to-understand format, all in one place.
That’s why, if you’ve got a new lawyer on your team or about to join you, then the New Lawyer Accelerator Program is actually a bit of a no-brainer. Just the hourly rate of a senior lawyer who’ll be able to rely on the program to cover 20 hours of basic training, means
you’ve already saved around $10,000.
What makes the New Lawyer Accelerator Program so different is that it’s been specifically designed by an experienced (35+ years) senior lawyer as a structured integrated training course for newly admitted lawyers teaching them the skills they’ll need, from day one, through their first year in legal practice.
The cost of stand-alone, single session CPD training is, on average, $150. Some are more, some less.
Which means for 20 unrelated sessions, you’d be expecting to pay something between $2,500- $3,500.
With so much value included in the New Lawyer Accelerator Program, you might be expecting to pay quite a considerable premium on top of the base price.
Especially since, by focusing on training new lawyers in the essential, practical skills that they’ll need to know if they want to be able to carry out their work effectively and professionally, it means that you can:
But there is no premium to pay.
Instead, you can purchase the entire program with all of the extras and benefits for a single investment of only $1,490.
There are no hidden fees or add-ons. GST is included.
One payment. $1,490. That’s it.
You’ve instantly given yourself back 20 hours of senior lawyer training time. Which, on top of the hourly rate saving ($10,000+) gives the added benefit of supervision sessions being freed up from bottom-line basics so that they can be focused on specific individual requirements.
Then factor in the reduced write-offs, less errors and accelerated learning curve and your investment in the New Lawyer Accelerator Program has paid for itself many times over almost from the moment you register.
You’ll get all the advantages, at a great value price (you’ll be getting twenty hours of training for the cost of ten CPD sessions). With so many benefits to your practice all included in one comprehensive course,
the New Lawyer Accelerator Program is your firm’s straightforward solution to new lawyer training.
The New Lawyer Accelerator Program
The New Lawyer Accelerator Program is designed, created and presented by Susan Marie Hill. A lawyer herself for more than 35 years, Susan is also a qualified coach and author of the groundbreaking legal practical skills handbook specifically written for graduate lawyers ‘A New Lawyer’s Guide to Getting it Right the First Time’ (LexisNexis). Realising that there was a significant training gap around basic practical skills for new lawyers, her answer was to provide an effective, accessible ‘hands-on’ solution that would deliver this much-needed training in an easy-to-understand format, all in one place.
Susan has combined her legal and coaching experience to create the New Lawyer Accelerator Program as an accessible ‘one stop shop’ solution, where new lawyers can easily find out, directly from an experienced senior lawyer, how to undertake essential everyday tasks proficiently and effectively themselves.
You might be asking yourself these questions:
Who is this program for?
The New Lawyer Accelerator Program has been specifically designed for newly admitted lawyers who are just beginning their career. It is suitable for very junior lawyers, so that instead of making mistakes and learning through trial and error they’ll have the opportunity to accelerate their way through the unavoidable learning curve of their first year in legal practice.
What sort of practical skills does the course cover?
It is totally focused on the day-to-day practical skills that junior lawyers need to know in order to be able to carry out their legal work effectively and professionally.
How is the course structured?
The training begins with a basic level of practical skills to match the daily sorts of tasks that a newly admitted lawyer will be undertaking when they first join a law firm, and then builds on and adds to those skills throughout the program.
Does it matter when you begin the course?
Since there’s so many things to learn, any time is a good time for a new lawyer to take part in the New Lawyer Accelerator Program.
What is the training like?
The training is ‘hands-on’ and uses realistic, everyday situations as examples which are broken down with step-by-step explanations. The videos are structured in a clear, plain and simple format, with engaging slides that assist understanding, along with a good dose of humour to lighten the mood. The course guides graduates through a carefully structured training sequence as they’re shown how to do the typical ‘everyday’ tasks of a junior lawyer.
You can rely on the New Lawyer Accelerator Program to take the lion’s share of the preliminary, basic training off your hands leaving you free to make the best use of your supervision time fine-tuning techniques, answering specific questions and providing individual instruction.
That’s why the New Lawyer Accelerator Program is your opportunity to reclaim your time, provide new lawyers with top-quality, effective training and improve productivity right from day one.
