Associate Mentoring Plus

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.

How Each AMP Component Works for You

Coaching

The AMP program was founded by a coach and designed to give you support throughout the year with touch base emails, coach office hours, accountability and helpful feedback. Our aim at AMP is not to teach you what to do. We want to teach you how to *know* what to do, and how to *take action*. Strategic thinking, resilience and a proactive mindset are key traits for any legal professional and your accountability-focused AMP coaching reflects that.

Coaching in AMP is with your cohort in the group sessions that take place each month. You can also reach out to your coach for immediate private support by email or messaging during the program. One-to-one coaching is also available at a members-only rate for members of AMP should any one feel the need for a private coaching session.

Mentoring

We provide access to a wide range of mentors including associates, partners, research lawyers, in-house counsel, and counsellors. These mentors have all had rich experience not simply in their areas of practice but also navigating a variety of career transitions. What they have in common is a keen interesting in supporting the development of their younger colleagues and in sharing what they have learned over the course of their careers. You can learn more about our mentors and read their profiles below.

Accountability

How much accountability support you want is up to you. All members will receive weekly check-ins from the coaches and the office hours and monthly gatherings create a routine for giving your professional development and practice your energy and attention.

Education

Working with our academic adviser we have developed a list of topics that we will explore in depth with you throughout the year.

We approached this curriculum as though we were building a rock-solid foundation brick by brick for your legal practice. It touches on what we know is essential to a thriving legal career. This foundation includes: leadership, mindsets, resilience, practice management, finance, negotiation, communication skills, business development, career planning and more. We will also touch on other topics such as strategies for multi-generational firms.

Each AMP member will have the opportunity to develop their own personal plan to help keep them focused and on track with advancing their priorities throughout the year.

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 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.”

Registration is Open

Click below for more information about the program starting in Fall 2021.

Early bird discount is available until midnight October 15, 2021.

Investment

If you were to work with our founding coach directly, this program would cost you more than $6000 and wouldn’t give you access to mentors or a community of colleagues working through similar challenges.

We encourage law firms to pay for AMP in full or in part for their associates. If you would like our assistance with approaching your firm for support let us know.

Right now you can get everything that is included in the 12-month AMP for:

$ 3000 + GST

Pay in full to secure the lowest price.
Twelve 90-minute interactive educational and question and answer sessions with coaches and mentors. CLE credits will be sought for each of the sessions.
Opportunities to ask questions of mentors and coaches in confidence throughout the program.
Coach office hours twice a month.
Weekly email check-ins from the coaches.
Additional surprise guests and pop up sessions.
A private AMP portal with tools for sharing wins, tips, and other insights with the AMP community.
Private group chat through private member portal.

$ 297 + GST

Monthly payment plan over 12 months.
Twelve 90-minute interactive educational and question and answer sessions with coaches and mentors. CLE credits will be sought for each of the sessions.
Opportunities to ask questions of mentors and coaches in confidence throughout the program.
Coach office hours twice a month.
Weekly email check-ins from the coaches.
Additional surprise guests and pop up sessions.
A private AMP portal with tools for sharing wins, tips, and other insights with the AMP community.
Private group chat through private member portal.

We are committed to helping young lawyers thrive in legal practice. If your firm won’t support you and you don’t have the financial means to support investing in the program please contact us to talk about alternative pricing and possible scholarships.