For junior lawyers
How-to guides for everything law school doesn't teach.
Step-by-step guides, templates and scripts to help you excel in your first few years.
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For junior lawyers
Step-by-step guides, templates and scripts to help you excel in your first few years.
Prefer to browse first? See all the free guides →
And why does the legal career advice I receive feel so vague?
Law school teaches you to think like a lawyer. But the real job is all of the other skills — running a matter, managing multiple files, chairing meetings, working with people above and beside you, catching the details others miss, and dealing with clients.
So you get told to “find a mentor,” “be proactive,” “improve your attention to detail.” But HOW?
That's what I break down here: step-by-step guides, templates, scripts and frameworks that turn these ideas into actions. You don't have to figure it out on your own.
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A week-by-week plan for your first 30 days as an in-house lawyer — whether permanent or on secondment — covering the business map, approvals and risk appetite, stakeholders, and landing an early win, co-written with Mel Storey (15+ years in-house and founder of Counsel Media).
Read the guide →Legal technologyA three-stage process — briefing, scoping, then refining and standardising — for building repeatable, verifiable AI workflows on legal matters, with worked examples from a contract review and a litigation chronology.
Read the guide →Core legal skillsHow to generate and read document compares and redlines, so you can see exactly what changed and learn from your supervisor's amendments.
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After reading the guides, I find myself better prepared when I come across the situations they cover. That confidence has made me more informed in, and improved the quality of, my day-to-day work.
Vinisha Patel · Contracts Specialist, Insite Energy
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