{"id":1807,"date":"2016-07-07T14:42:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T12:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dlapiper.com\/advocatus\/?p=1807"},"modified":"2022-03-21T17:16:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T16:16:06","slug":"mentoring-in-law-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dlapiper.com\/advocatus\/2016\/07\/mentoring-in-law-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"Mentoring in Law Firms?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1807\" class=\"elementor elementor-1807\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-407d06ce elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"407d06ce\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-30f17865\" data-id=\"30f17865\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6043ad82 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6043ad82\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Talented law school graduates value learning and development (L&amp;D) opportunities equally as salary and career prospects when choosing their future employer. One of the most effective ways for a firm to meet this demand is to maintain a mentoring system. Among L&amp;D tools mentoring is one of the most productive, providing an on-going support, tacit knowledge transfer and development opportunity for junior lawyers. The beneficial effects of a functioning mentoring system is way beyond the professional development of juniors, mentoring offers considerable advantages to the mentors and the firm too.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div> &hellip;<p class=\"ast-the-content-more-link\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dlapiper.com\/advocatus\/2016\/07\/mentoring-in-law-firms\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mentoring in Law Firms?<\/span>Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talented law school graduates value learning and development (L&amp;D) opportunities equally as salary and career prospects when choosing their future employer. 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