Professional Development Approach
When we ask you to join our Firm, we want you to flourish, because your personal success enables us to deliver quality legal service and prosper as a Firm.
We know that the path to success is personal to every individual. It also is unique to every law firm. Knowing what it takes to thrive and grow at our Firm is critical to designing the personal career development plan that works for you.
At Baker & McKenzie, we have studied our most successful lawyers. We examined thousands of personal and professional characteristics to understand which make the best better. We have defined the personal qualities that distinguish top performers.
With these powerful insights, we have been able to shape a professional development approach that will give each of our associates a better chance to excel -- to achieve excellence within the profession and within Baker & McKenzie.
In all of our locations, we define specific global, regional and local training and professional development needs. And we work individually with our people to map out personal skills development plans and measure progress through formal and informal feedback.
Our programs are harmonized across our network to ensure quality and consistency. Standards on mentoring, evaluation, feedback on work assignments, knowledge-sharing, and local definition of practice-related skill sets all foster progressive development of technical and practical legal skills.