How to Make Law Firm Partner: Progress to Partner Academy

Are you hoping to be promoted to senior associate but a senior partner announces that one of your colleagues has got the promotion instead of you again.

How can you stop this from happening so that you get the next promotion to senior associate?

How can you differentiate yourself from your colleagues and demonstrate your leadership capabilities so that you can advance in your career?

Progress to Partner Academy is the sister site of How to Make Partner. It’s tough to hear, but keeping your head down and working hard won’t get you noticed! Get online access to self-study courses, short and long videos packed full of advice to develop your partner-ready skills with Progress to Partner – premium membership is £290 for 12 months – that’s less than a 1-hour coaching session!

Progress to Partner academy members know exactly where they need to focus to get noticed as partner-material in their law firm, each day, week and month of their career.⁠ Isn’t it time that you did?

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Academy, Courses and Events

For all career stages, from student to partner candidate

Career Guides and Articles

Free content to help you vision where it is and how to get there

Who We Serve

Students, Paralegals, Trainee Solicitors, Associates, Directors, Newly Appointed Partners & Firms.

Progress Your Law Career

Email Courses

A big topic broken down into early stage email courses for exactly the right moment. For each of the 12 skills areas,

Recorded Classes

Our class material and online self paced courses, for active partner based progression.

Events

Bringing topical issues to qualified lawyers Partner specific presentations for later career support and preparation

Coaching

For late stage preparation and confidence around the business case and interview stages.

Individual Progress to Partner Pricing – Is it for You?

Partner – BLM LLP

“Thank you very much indeed for your significant help and support – as a result of your guidance, I felt incredibly confident in submitting my business plan and then giving my presentation and interview. In the days after the presentation and interview, I had some very positive feedback from the partners who interviewed me, saying that my performance was “outstanding” and that my presentation was “very slick and professional” – I doubt it would have been without your advice and guidance. I gained so much confidence from working with you, and I am extremely grateful.”

Discover your Partnership Readiness Scores

Our partnership readiness assessment will give you clarity on what to work on to improve your career prospects. We recommend that trainees, associates and senior associates in law firms work through the Law Firm Partnership Readiness Assessment to get focussed on how to progress in your law firm career.

Skills Development to Become a Partner

Access resources, courses and partner development programs to suit you at every stage in your career with a Progress to Partner subscription

Progress to Partner Academy: Your self-study courses, programmes, videos, plans, guides and masterclasses on tap

Get started with a simple, low-cost annual plan. Then, when you are ready to take action, progress in accessing unlimited courses, resources, and live virtual masterclasses. Later, when you are ready to mount a charge towards becoming a law firm partner, we offer premium services, such as discounted executive coaching, to help get you there more quickly.

Career Planning

Getting into the right mindset

Personal Direction Guides

Career Plan Guides

Personal Case Guides

Career toolkit

Developing New Business

Generating new business is a crucial element of becoming a partner

Business Development Habits:Guides

Go-to Expert Guides

New Business toolkit

Team Development

Nobody gets there on their own. Working with teams is core to our achievement

Support Team Guides

Delegation Guides

Team toolkit

Partner Material

There is a certain way that partners behave, access our insights

Member of the Club Guides

Law Firm Partner Mindset Guides

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Partner Track

Time to get down to it. Our premium guide to get you prepareed for the partner pitch

Partner Business Case Guides

Partner Admission Process Guides

partnertrack Toolkit

Individuals Progress to Partner Pricing – Is it for You?

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Partner – BLM LLP

“Thank you very much indeed for your significant help and support – as a result of your guidance, I felt incredibly confident in submitting my business plan and then giving my presentation and interview. In the days after the presentation and interview, I had some very positive feedback from the partners who interviewed me, saying that my performance was “outstanding” and that my presentation was “very slick and professional” – I doubt it would have been without your advice and guidance. I gained so much confidence from working with you, and I am extremely grateful.”

Our Books

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The Financial Times Guide to Business Networking

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How to Make Partner and Still Have a Life

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The Go-To
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Heather Townsend

Heather Townsend is the leading global expert in what it takes to move from senior fee earner to partner – and when you get there, stay there. She regularly runs programmes to help fee earners take the step up to partner, and establish themselves as a new partner, for mid-tier law, accountancy and consultancy firms. It just so happens that she is rather good (and not really that modest either!) in helping individuals successfully market and sell themselves. Just the skills you need when you are aiming to grow your client portfolio AND make it to partner.

In fact, her clients have added over £1 million in fees to their client portfolio in the last year. Heather often works with private clients who want to drive their own career (regardless of the development options offered by their firm) via her Progress To Partner membership site. The membership site helps lawyers, accountants and consultants to:

  • Find the time to work ON their career development and business development
  • Grow their client portfolio
  • Develop a strong personal case so that they are seen as the next partner
  • Get onto partner track rather than been seen as only a “safe pair of hands”
  • Build, write and pitch their business case
  • Prepare for the partnership panel interviews

She is the author of 6 books including ‘How to make partner and still have a life‘ (co-authored with Jo Larbie), ‘Poised for partnership‘, ‘The Financial Times guide to business networking‘ and ‘The Go-To Expert‘. Her books have sold over 20,000 copies globally and been translated into over 6 different languages and attracted over 200 five star reviews on Amazon.Her coaching style has been described as challenging, friendly but very supportive.