Essential Soft Skills for Lawyers: What They Are and How to Develop Them

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Essential Soft Skills for Lawyers: What They Are and How to Develop Them

By Kim Tasso
Globe Law and Business June 2020

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ISBN-13
9781787423381
Publisher
Globe Law and Business
Publication
June 2020
Format
Paperback , 90 pages
Jurisdiction
International ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This Special Report offers a research-based view into the importance of soft skills for modern lawyers and how law firms develop essential soft skills – whether to comply with SRA rules, to lead productive teams, to provide the best service to clients or to grow their practice.

Through interviews with lawyers, leaders and human resource professionals at large and small firms, the report provides an overview of the essential soft skills required by modern lawyers, competency frameworks and insights into how best to develop them and guidance on some of the essential soft skills required.

Interpersonal, emotional intelligence, communication, learning, adaptability, problem-solving, negotiation, team management, leadership and business development are amongst the soft skills explored for high-performing lawyers.

This report is the guide to developing the skills needed to get ahead and stay ahead in your legal career.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. The importance of soft skills for lawyers
3. Emotional intelligence for lawyers
4. Law firm approaches to developing soft skills: Overview of how to promote learning and different learning styles - Methods of learning/training:
Interviews with HR and L&D people
Illustrations of different law firm “academies” and competency frameworks
5. The range of soft skills required by lawyers
6. Five core soft skills for lawyers
7. Other professions and soft skills
8. Other contents
9. Glossary
10. Signposts to other learning resources
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