Live Webinar: Identity, Influence and Leadership Under Pressure

Aspiring partners, newly appointed partners, and senior associates preparing for partnership. Relevant across all practice areas and firm sizes, from boutique practices to large regional and national firms.

All Levels – this can be picked up throughout anyones professional career regardless of experience.

1. Understand why the transition to partnership requires a different kind of professional development than technical legal training provides.
2. Recognise reflection as a performance discipline — not a soft skill — and understand why it is foundational to effective leadership in a law firm context.
3. Identify the structural forces in law firm culture — billing pressure, hierarchy, risk aversion — that shape leadership behaviour, often without conscious awareness.
4. Articulate their own values as a leader and understand how those values shape the conditions they create for others.
5. Define psychological safety accurately — distinguishing it from comfort or low standards — and understand its relationship to team performance, risk management, knowledge sharing, and retention.
6. Identify specific, small behaviours they can model immediately to begin building psychological safety within their own team.

1. The skills that made you an excellent lawyer — precision, personal ownership, risk aversion — can actively work against you as a leader. Recognising this is the first step to navigating the transition well.

2. Psychological safety is not about comfort — it is about creating the conditions for high performance. Research shows it is the single biggest differentiator of effective teams, and it is directly undermined by common law firm behaviours and structures.

3. The kind of leader you become is a choice — but only if you make it consciously. Partnership is one of the few genuine transition points where that choice is still open. Reflection is the tool that keeps it open.

This live webinar contains a 45-minute presentation from Hélène Russell, a 15-minute Q&A session where you can ask any questions you'd like directly to Hélène. You can download your own copy of the presentation and resources to refer to during and after the live webinar.

You will be able to actively listen to the course and ask questions to the speaker.

This live webinar provides you with 1 hour of learning.

Attendees will receive a CPD certificate upon completion of this course.

The live webinar begins at 12pm.

The £69 +VAT price includes:

• 45-minutes of topical content
• 15-minute interactive Q&A
• Comprehensive lecture notes
• Digital CPD certificate

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