New practice group targets those in ‘middle’ of careers
When attorneys Ryan Billings and Iker Dieguez describe the newly formed Primerus™ section they helped create, they often employ the analogy of a bridge.
They envision the group acting as a bridge of generations and a bridge of experience.
“Bridging the Gap” was actually the title of the Coffee & Conversation they organized in late April to explore interest in a group that would primarily focus on the needs and development of attorneys in the “middle” years of their careers.
The high attendance and enthusiastic response to the event confirmed that the two attorneys were onto something. The gap they had sensed between younger attorneys just starting out in the profession and senior attorneys established in firm leadership clearly existed.
The Primerus™ Young Lawyers Section nourishes attorneys at the outset of their legal career, and the Managing Partner Section serves and connects lawyers in the later years of their careers, but Billings and Dieguez recognized that attorneys who are senior associates through junior partners had no similar support network.
“If you’re a managing partner, if you’re a senior rainmaking attorney, your needs and what your day-to-day life is like is different from someone who is a senior associate or junior partner,” says Billings, who is a partner at the Milwaukee-based law firm of Kohner, Mann & Kailas.
Billings poses the question: Where is a lawyer at 40, the age when attorneys graduate out of the Young Lawyers Section?
“You’re either a senior associate or you’re a young partner,” he says. “You know a lot about the substantive practice of law, but you don’t know as much about the business end of it. You don’t know as much about developing leadership roles in the firm, managing a team of attorneys, or the administrative aspects of running a law firm.”
They envision the group acting as a bridge of generations and a bridge of experience.
“Bridging the Gap” was actually the title of the Coffee & Conversation they organized in late April to explore interest in a group that would primarily focus on the needs and development of attorneys in the “middle” years of their careers.
The high attendance and enthusiastic response to the event confirmed that the two attorneys were onto something. The gap they had sensed between younger attorneys just starting out in the profession and senior attorneys established in firm leadership clearly existed.
The Primerus™ Young Lawyers Section nourishes attorneys at the outset of their legal career, and the Managing Partner Section serves and connects lawyers in the later years of their careers, but Billings and Dieguez recognized that attorneys who are senior associates through junior partners had no similar support network.
“If you’re a managing partner, if you’re a senior rainmaking attorney, your needs and what your day-to-day life is like is different from someone who is a senior associate or junior partner,” says Billings, who is a partner at the Milwaukee-based law firm of Kohner, Mann & Kailas.
Billings poses the question: Where is a lawyer at 40, the age when attorneys graduate out of the Young Lawyers Section?
“You’re either a senior associate or you’re a young partner,” he says. “You know a lot about the substantive practice of law, but you don’t know as much about the business end of it. You don’t know as much about developing leadership roles in the firm, managing a team of attorneys, or the administrative aspects of running a law firm.”
Nathan Meloon
Widerman Malek, P.L., Melbourne, Florida
Widerman Malek, P.L., Melbourne, Florida
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• With summer approaching and cabin fever subsiding, we can now look forward to the many wellness benefits associated with getting outdoors.
• Spending time outdoors can improve overall health and wellness. The outdoors offers many opportunities to be physically active. Time outdoors also may promote mental health and stress reduction.
• There are many mental wellness benefits associated with being outside in green spaces, such as lower risk of depression and faster psychological stress recovery. Studies have shown that being in nature can restore and strengthen our mental capacities, while also increasing focus and attention.
• Spending time outdoors can improve overall health and wellness. The outdoors offers many opportunities to be physically active. Time outdoors also may promote mental health and stress reduction.
• There are many mental wellness benefits associated with being outside in green spaces, such as lower risk of depression and faster psychological stress recovery. Studies have shown that being in nature can restore and strengthen our mental capacities, while also increasing focus and attention.
• Another major component of mental health is social connection. The outdoors serves as a place to come together with friends and family and connect with the larger community.
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