LAWYER COACHING
Lawyer Coaching Can Change You and How You Practice Law
As a practicing lawyer, I knew there had to be another way.
After finishing law school at the University of British Columbia, I practiced corporate/commercial law for a couple of years at a boutique law firm and didn’t enjoy it that much. I had an opportunity to move to a global accounting firm that was launching a multi-disciplinary practice and I joined the corporate immigration law group where I began my immigration career. Six years later, I joined a global law firm as a senior associate and helped grow the corporate immigration practice. I was recruited to another international law firm as a partner and became the National Head of the Immigration Law Group. I loved working with corporate clients and helping them achieve their business goals using an international workforce, but I didn’t love the 18-hour days, 7 days per week.
I moved to Calgary with that same firm in 2008 to be closer to my family, but that didn’t solve the problem. In 2010, I decided it was time to make some changes, both personally and professionally. I launched Ackah Business Immigration Law to focus on what I do best and to do it my way and on my own terms.
I started a law firm that allowed me to bring all of myself to the office every day and that allows others to be themselves as well.
What Is Lawyer Coaching?
Over the past 10 years, I’ve invested in growing my firm. I’ve hired business coaches, joined legal entrepreneur and business groups, and studied countless articles and podcasts. And I’ve learned a lot. But I also learned many things by trial and error and figuring out what works - and what doesn’t work.
There is no one-way right-way to run a profitable law firm. But there are new ways of doing things, new resources and tools, and many new opportunities for law firms.
I provide 1:1 lawyer coaching to analyze what you’re doing now, what your goals are and what your resources are. You may know how to solve a legal problem - but even a good lawyer hires a lawyer to represent them in court. A lawyer is his own worse client.
An experienced, independent consultation and coaching with a successful legal entrepreneur can give you fresh insights and strategies into your law practice.
You can be a successful lawyer and business owner - and still have a life. But you need some coaching to get there.