In her book, “My Beloved World,” U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said, “There are very few people in the world whom you can’t learn something from, but even rarer are those souls who can reveal whole worlds to you if you observe them carefully.” Sotomayor’s words are an apt philosophy when examining how mentoring in the legal profession, especially among female attorneys, breeds professionalism and excellence in the law.
Value for All
Mentoring is the passing on of legal skills that promotes professional development and ensures that our clients will have the most effective counsel, and, importantly, it offers multi-faceted value to those involved—from providing the crucial technical knowledge and skills young attorneys learn from mentors, to offering a combination of professional and personal enrichment, and the socialization and support needed to facilitate success in the legal profession. Perhaps the mentor-mentee relationship’s greatest value is that it fosters the development of crucial skills to navigate difficult personalities in a world where civility is sometimes lost. In an era where work-life balance has become a priority, mentoring teaches lawyers the art of balancing the living of life with the practice of law and greatly enhances a new attorney’s chances for success.
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