legal sanity

Mentoring has become a big part of my professional life and, as I’ve stated before, I think it’s key to building our skills, success and satisfaction in the law. I very much enjoyed this new ABA article on the subject for its first-person accounts of the many benefits of mentoring relationships. People turn to mentors for different reasons. And, like any relationship, it takes candor, communication and common ground to keep the union going. As the article states: “A lot of people see mentoring as some sort of skipping through the daisies, Karate Kid sort of thing, and it’s not.” But, as the piece also captures, when mentoring partnerships work, “you [both] are enriched.” As an aside for those of you familiar with his terrific blog and business, I believe I spotted Kevin O’Keefe of lexBlog and Real Lawyers Have Blogs among the mentoring enthusiasts profiled in the article. So, real lawyers need blogs and mentors!