The greatest challenge for training professionals in law firms is to encourage fee earners to participate with enthusiasm in training programmes for its junior lawyers.
How do you persuade busy practitioners with a huge caseload and demanding clients to spare some of their valuable time to actually teach on in-house courses? It makes sense for senior lawyers to share their great expertise and experience with juniors so that they too can improve their knowledge and skills and ensure that the firm can continue to provide a high quality of service to its clients. But there is a balance to be struck between the cost of time taken out of the office and time spent on preparing for and delivering training.
