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FOR LAW FIRM LEADERS & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TEAMS

Developing New
Law Firm Partners

A practical framework to equip, empower, and elevate your new partners.

For managing partners, practice group leaders, and professional development and talent leaders responsible for helping new partners succeed.

  • Clarify what successful partnership looks like.
  • Support the shift from lawyer to leader and owner.
  • Build a practical partner development action plan.

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By Yuliya LaRoe, JD, MBA

Cover of the LeadWise Guide to Developing New Partners

A ROADMAP FOR YOUR FIRM

What you’ll take away.

Making partner is a milestone. Leading people, managing a practice, and growing a book of business require a different set of skills. Use this guide to build the support around that transition.

01

Understand the transition.

Explore the changing demands of people management, work sourcing, business development, and firm dynamics.

02

Support three mindset shifts.

Help new partners move from employee to owner, lawyer to leader, and legal professional to trusted business advisor.

03

Build a framework for success.

Define observable partner behaviors, realistic development timelines, and the signals your firm sends through rewards and recognition.

04

Create an action plan.

Bring onboarding, mentorship, coaching, and phased development together in a practical plan for your firm.

YOUR NEXT STEP

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Yuliya LaRoe, founder and CEO of LeadWise Group

MEET THE GUIDE’S AUTHOR

Yuliya LaRoe, JD, MBA, PCC

Founder & CEO, LeadWise Group
Law Firm Consultant, Trainer & Coach

Yuliya helps law firms develop partners who can lead with greater impact, manage people and practices more effectively, and grow stronger businesses. For nearly 15 years, she has advised, coached, and trained more than 5,000 lawyers and firm leaders at AmLaw 100 and 200 firms worldwide.

Before founding LeadWise, Yuliya practiced law at an AmLaw 100 firm for nearly a decade, first as a litigator and later in an international advisory practice. She brings that firsthand understanding of law firm life to the transition from accomplished lawyer to partner, leader, and owner.

She holds a JD from USC School of Law and an MBA from Boston University, and is an International Coaching Federation Professional Certified Coach. Her expertise has been featured by the ABA, NALP, PDC, LMA, ALM, Law Practice Today, and Attorney at Work.

The guide brings together the practical questions she helps firms address: what successful partnership looks like, how new partners develop, and how the firm’s expectations and support can reinforce that growth.

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PUT THE FRAMEWORK INTO PRACTICE

Help your new partners
grow into the role.

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