Associate Mentoring Plus – Your launchpad to a thriving career in law

Our Mission & Vision

Our vision is to help make legal practice a career lawyers recommend to their children.

Our mission is to help lawyers in their first five years of practice establish a strong foundation for a successful career in law. One that brings them satisfaction, fulfillment, and a sense of purpose.

So that together we can transform legal practice!

Why AMP?

Most lawyers in their initial years of practice and beyond are not getting the support and guidance needed for making the most of these crucial years of practice.

The result of this lack of support and guidance can be seen in the mental health challenges facing the profession and the departure of many talented young people from a career in law.

Mentorship alone doesn’t meet the challenge.

Yes, law firms and organizations such as the Canadian Bar Association offer mentorship programs, but one mentor is not enough.

Individual mentors don’t have all the answers, nor the capacity to provide a high volume of support. And if the mentor is an employer, this will impact what a junior lawyer will be comfortable sharing with them.

Do you...

Want to build a rock-solid foundation for a rewarding legal career?
Want to establish an approach to legal practice that supports professional excellence while leaving space for other life priorities and commitments?
Want access to a constellation of mentors and coaches who will provide you with confidential guidance?
Want the support of a community of like-minded professionals?
Want guidance for charting your own course to a rewarding legal practice – suited to your own unique strengths, values, and interests?
Want to stop feeling alone in your career? With the knowledge that you have access to a wide range of colleagues and advisors who care about you and can give you help, advice, and support when you need it?
Want to build your confidence?

What is AMP?

AMP brings together a constellation of coaches and mentors all focused on providing our members, lawyers in their initial one to five years of practice, with Coaching, Mentorship, Accountability, Community, and Education.

Joining AMP means you are no longer alone. We bring comprehensive support under one roof, by giving you access to a wide-ranging group of advisers and a network – so that when you need advice, you can trust that you’re getting experienced and insightful guidance and direction.

Our aim is to support each of our members with establishing a solid foundation for a successful legal career – however you define this. We created AMP because as coaches we are all deeply committed to helping transform the practice of law and we believe that junior and incoming members of the profession have what it takes to make this happen.

We also know many firms aren’t currently set up to offer comprehensive support to their junior lawyers and that partners are often too busy to provide a consistent degree of mentorship. AMP provides a full package of support at a fraction of the cost and effort it would take for you or your firm to pull together.

Is AMP for you?

If you answer yes to one or more of these questions, yes, AMP is for you:

You are in the first five years of legal practice
You are willing to invest in yourself and take personal ownership of your legal career.
You're passionate about some of your legal work, but struggle with all the moving parts, and feel like it's sometimes too much for one person to handle.
You’d like to be focused on education, training and professional development but don’t know how you can fit it in.
You are wishing you had more access to mentors and coaches for guidance and support.

If that sounds like you, we’d love to have you join us at AMP!

Don’t think you have enough time for AMP?

Here’s what AMP members say…

“What I would say to someone who passes this opportunity is ‘you should make time because this program is about self-development and how to manage being a junior lawyer.’ Being a part of AMP will not only help you improve your weaknesses, but it can also help develop your strengths. By making time for this program, you are focusing on nurturing and using your strengths more. This program helps you focus on ‘YOU’ and what ‘YOU’ want to do. You may be busy with work, family, and other obligations but these sessions are a time for you to reflect and focus on yourself and will provide you with the support and help you need to reach your professional goals.”

“I’d say that it really doesn’t take as much time as you think it would and it’s a nice break and time for reflection amongst all the work. It’s helpful to take the time to reflect on what how you’re feeling and is also a nice push to keep on track. The community aspect of AMP is also gives nice peace of mind to know you’re not the only one going through things. Definitely well worth it.”

“I think ‘not having time’ is a reason to join. One of the biggest benefits of the AMP program for me is being ‘forced’ to spend a minimum amount of time each month thinking about my long term career progression. Also, on a more pragmatic side, as many of the courses are approved for CPD credits, it doesn’t amount to extra time as you would have to obtain these credits by the end of the year in any event."

“I have a lot of empathy for this response from junior lawyers, and expect that in my first or second year of call I would have said that myself. I also think, looking back, a lot of my decisions on things like coaching/PD/mentoring were short-sighted and ‘survival’ based. I think my response would be to consider the program as a strategic investment in their career and professional development, one that will help them build skills to make their legal practice – whatever they want that to look like – sustainable in the long-term.”

"Prior, I was convinced that I had to leave law, that it just wasn't for me that I couldn't make it, I wasn't finding my people, I wasn't finding my space and I couldn't see a future that I wanted in law. Now, I'm excited to be a lawyer again."

Registration is closed until late 2023

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