Mentoring, Supervising, Delegating

Developing the Next Generation of Rainmakers Mentoring, Supervising, Delegating-Three Simple Ideas You Can Implement Are you a junior partner developing your practice? If so, you might listen to a Delegating and Supervising Podcast you can download from iTunes on how I delegated and supervised a star associate who worked for me. Why is delegating and supervising so important? Put simply, without younger lawyers providing excellent work, no matter how great you are at bringing in business, you will be limited to what you can do yourself. Even in this economy, the cost of losing a star associate is $200,000 to $500,000, and that doesn’t even account for the impact on the relationship with the client or the loss of morale in your firm. Want some simple ideas? Okay, here are three. Institutionalized “mentor-by-the-numbers” programs rarely work. True mentors take their associates under their wings, provide”shadowing” opportunities and help them to discover, step-by-step, case-by-case, deal-by-deal, how the real world of the law actually works. I practiced law for 37 years developing a national construction law practice representing some of the top highway and transportation construction contractors in the US.