This self-assessment is based on the Life in Law program. It is designed to assess your current level of satisfaction with your law practice, so you can identify opportunities for growth and change and decide how to make them a reality.
It’s important to be as objective as possible when evaluating your personal strengths and performance barriers. This exercise will help you identify areas where you need to put more effort into balancing your practice’s demands with a fulfilling life. It will also help you recognize what you’re doing right.
Life in Law is based on proven strategies to equip you to integrate your life and practice so you can get more out of both. Even if you’re already practicing these general principles, you’ll find lots of specific techniques to add to your ongoing efforts. The new practices you will create will have a major impact on your life and your effectiveness as a lawyer.
What Life in Law Means for You
The demands of an active practice have never been greater. Lawyer dissatisfaction is at an all-time high: law is becoming increasingly competitive and impersonal, technology has made it virtually impossible to escape work, and lawyers are leaving firms and the profession in record numbers.
But you don’t have to give up life for law, or vice versa. There’s an alternative: taking control of your work so it doesn’t control you. Balancing life and law not only makes for a more fulfilling life, it makes you a better lawyer.
Integrating your life and work requires thoughtful and consistent efforts. Those efforts will take many forms, but they are guided by six basic principles:
- Managing time means managing energy
- Laser focus enhances performance
- Balancing life and law sustains your practice and allows it and you to grow
- What you value outside the office gives meaning to your work
- Bringing real value to clients requires strategic thinking and creativity
- Achieving full potential in life and law requires extreme self care and risk
This assessment can be answered directly on screen. It takes approximately 15 minutes to complete. When you’re finished, click “Submit”. Your scores will be e-mailed to you. You can print out your responses by clicking “Print”. Your scores and all information you provide will be kept confidential and used only for purposes of the program.