Learning + Development

LEARNING + DEVELOPMENT

CONTINUED LEARNING In today’s business climate, it is not enough to be an excellent lawyer. With that in mind, Goodwin provides attorneys with programs that not only train them to do their legal work accurately but also teach them to think like business people, look for creative and efficient solutions, manage their time effectively, and collaborate to reach the best result for our clients.

Our Learning + Professional Development team works with firm attorneys and industry experts to design and implement a range of training programs, seminars, and workshops to augment the “on the BY THE job” training our attorneys receive from their day-to-day legal work and from the regular feedback they receive from their supervising attorneys. NUMBERS

250 in-house training sessions offered annually, TRAINING FOR ALL ATTORNEYS including 175+ CLE eligible Firm Leadership Programs combine faculty from Harvard Business and 75+ run by individual School and Harvard Law School with firm leaders to deliver leadership practices training to mid-level associates, senior associates and newly elevated partners. 500 500 free live, online, and on-demand CLE courses Professional Coaching program provides attorneys with the opportunity through Practising Law to be professionally coached by a member of our internal coaching team Institute on a variety of topics, including confidence, executive presence, and career development. 14 professionals dedicated to professional development Business Development/Client Service learning sessions are an and training opportunity for our attorneys to hear directly from senior rainmakers about the fundamentals of business development and client service, $5m invested each year understand what clients look for in outside counsel, and build a BD/client in the training, development, service skillset starting at the junior associate level through to partner. and engagement of attorneys and professional staff Professional Development Allowances for associates and professional track attorneys and Professional Enhancement Accounts for partners and counsel support individual attorneys’ professional development needs by providing funds for outside seminars and conferences to complement the firm’s internal learning and professional development opportunities. ATTORNEY FEEDBACK

“[The leadership development program] was “I found it very useful to take the time away from phenomenal! Thank you for putting it together and the day to day in the office and reﬂect on my thanks to Goodwin for making the investment. It is career with my peers. It was also very helpful to certainly unique among law firms.” look at things from the business school case study perspective and it helped me to think more like my “[Litigation Academy] is a great training program. clients.” (on leadership development program) I’m lucky to be a part of a firm that cares about their junior associates.” “The interactive [m+a training] session with questions and examples really helped my “I came away with an increased confidence in my understanding of the concepts. It was an excellent oral advocacy skills, plus two concrete suggestions training and I learned a lot.” for improvement, both of which I think are useful.” (on communication skills workshop + private Coaching Session)

SAMPLE PROGRAMS BLD Practice Lab + Litigation Abilitie Business Challenge provides an Academy workshops offer new overview of key finance and accounting attorneys a focused review of the concepts in relation to the challenges our foundational skills to help them clients face and the broad array of legal complete early assignments and learn through case services the firm provides, all in highly interactive, studies and interactive components over the course of simulation- style learning platform. two consecutive days. Deposition Skills Workshop is a two-day Shadow Training Program offers our immersive workshop for litigation attorneys first-, second-, and third-year associates in collaboration with the National Institute and science advisors the opportunity to of Trial Advocacy (NITA). The program “shadow” partners and counsel during events such as consists of instructional lectures and exercises trials, court hearings, depositions, drafting sessions, allowing each participant to conduct mock depositions and meetings with clients or opposing counsel. with feedback and coaching from our partners and expert NITA faculty.

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