Partnership Track
How to write a career plan if you are a lawyer, accountant or consultant (without getting overwhelmed)
Understanding how to write a career plan if you are a lawyer, accountant or consultant is key to make partner and stay there. As the saying goes, “fail to plan, plan to fail”. And this couldn’t be truer if you are wanting to progress your career in the professions. How to write a career plan …
12 red flags that indicate you won’t make partner at your law firm (and what you can do next!)
The increasing competitiveness among firms has resulted in a much longer timeline to becoming partner, if you’re lucky enough to be named one at all. So it’s important for associates to know and regularly evaluate whether they are on the right track. The partnership track is a tough and vigorous road to travel, so rather …
Make partner in a UK law firm – 9 tips for busy senior associates
In the last few years, I have been working with a number of senior associates looking to make partner in UK law firms. These tips on how to make partner in a UK law firm come directly through helping them to make partner. Of course, the advice will be very similar wherever you are in …
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What is a partner track? (And why is this important to your career?)
There used to be a presumption that if you were intelligent, hardworking, and good with clients, then after a suitable qualifying period, you would be invited to join the partner track. More recently, however, this is not the case. Now, only 10-30% of top accountants, lawyers and consultants will become partners at their firm. With …
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Partner Track Politics: The difficulties of transitioning from 2nd in command to being the boss
Partner Track Politics: Heather explains how it’s important to know what to expect when you are in partner or if you’re about to make partner. I often have this dialogue with particularly lawyers on the program. It’s on the how to make partner program, is that you need to build up your own team. But …
4 things you need to show your partners that you are ready for partnership
Making partner is not just about meeting your targets, keeping your head down and getting all your work done. There are many more things you need to be doing to show the partners in your firm that you are ready for partnership 4 things you need to do to show that you are ready for …
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