Career Toolkit: Networking & Mentoring

Type of Resource	Resource	Description
List	WBA Connections Catalog	Coming Soon! This is a catalog of WBA members who are willing to participate in informational interviews and career sharing with other members. Contact members directly to connect! If you would like to be listed in the catalog, please email the Career Toolkit Committee and include “CONNECTION CATALOG” in your subject line.
Registration Link	2021 WBA Mentoring Program	Join us for the WBA’s annual Mentoring Program! Whether you are looking to give back as a mentor, or want a fresh pair of eyes on your career plans as a mentee, we can help. We ask that mentors and mentees be willing to meet by phone or videoconference once per month. Sign up by October 18, 2021, and look for a pairing email in mid November. Contact the Career Development & Mentoring Committee with any questions at careermentoring@wbadc.org.
Podcast/Article	NPR Life kit – “The Right Mentor Can Change Your Career. Here’s How to Find One”	This podcast/article discusses how to find the right mentor, how to ask for someone to be your mentor, and tips on being a good mentee.
Article	DC Bar – Mentoring Resource	This article includes tips on finding a mentor, suggested protocols, topics of discussion, possible activities to build the mentoring relationship, and what to expect.
Book	Master Mentors: 30 Transformative Insights from Our Greatest Minds	For busy professionals and lifelong learners seeking practical strategies for reaching new heights, Master Mentors distills 30 essential learnings from Seth Godin, Susan Cain, Trent Shelton, General Stanley McChrystal, and other top business minds and thought leaders of our time.
Resource	Mentoring Resource	A guide to the mentoring relationship, including benefits of a mentoring relationship, tips on finding a mentor, suggested protocols, topics of discussion and possible activities to build the relationship, what to expect, additional resources, and more.
Book	The Lawyer’s Guide to Mentoring	The Lawyer’s Guide to Mentoring is directed to every lawyer interested in being a mentor or having a mentor — and to every law office wishing to make mentoring available in the workplace. For individual lawyers, mentoring relationships offer keys to professional success. For law firms, mentoring programs are an investment in the future. This book offers both audiences practical tools for establishing successful mentoring relationships in today’s legal workplace.
Guide	Networking- Getting the Job	Stanford Law School’s guide to networking.
Guide	Networking Guide	University of Miami School of Law’s networking and informational interview guide, including sample networking letters.
Article	A Guide to Informational Interviews	Informational interviews differ from job interviews, but they can lead to numerous outcomes such as job opportunities, career guidance, mentors, and more. This is the ABA’s guide to informational interviews.
Book	Strategic Networking for Introverts, Extroverts, and Everyone in Between	Do you network because you know you should but have little to show for the effort? Or do you avoid networking altogether because it seems too time-consuming, intimidating or salesy? If so, this book is for you.
Article	Diversity in Mentoring Relationships: Making it Work	The number of women and minority role models, mentors, and leaders remains less than desirable. However, this article describes a study that shows that with sufficient information, support, and initiative, women and minority lawyers can find the mentors they need and become the role models, mentors, and leaders of tomorrow.
Article	A Guide to Legal Mentors and How to Find One	This article covers what you need to know about legal mentors. We’ll share tips on how you can find a legal mentor, what questions to ask them, and how to establish a positive and respectful relationship. In addition, you’ll learn the essentials to make legal mentorship an ongoing tool in your legal career.
Article	A Guide to Legal Mentors and How to Find One	This article covers what you need to know about legal mentors. We’ll share tips on how you can find a legal mentor, what questions to ask them, and how to establish a positive and respectful relationship. In addition, you’ll learn the essentials to make legal mentorship an ongoing tool in your legal career.
Video	The Power of Connection – How to Leverage Your Networks and Social Media	The role of relationships and networks cannot be understated in achieving career success however you define that success. Building and maintain networks in person and also across social media can be useful if done effectively. In this session you will learn strategies on leveraging your networks as well as how to effectively use social media for career success.
Article	Networking do’s and don’ts for aspiring lawyers	Six specialist career and networking coaches provide their top networking tips for aspiring lawyers.
Blog	Zen and the Art of Legal Networking	This blog is written by Lindsay Griffiths, who is the International Lawyers Network’s Executive Director.
Association	International Lawyers Network	The International Lawyers Network is an association of 91 high-quality, full-service law firms with over 5,000 lawyers worldwide. The Network provides clients with easily accessible legal services in 67 countries on six continents.
Article	Lawyer Networking & Referral Marketing	No longer does networking mean going to in-person meetings. In the digital world, it’s just as important to stay active with your networking.
Article	A Lawyer’s Guide to Networking Events in a Virtual World	This a November 2020 guide to virtual networking.
Video	Networking for Introverts in Law	Leg Up Legal and MothersEsquire co-hosted a webinar on Networking for Introverts! Let’s get real, there’s not a lot of material out there for introverts in the law because when most people think about lawyers, they think about Super Type-A personalities who are extroverts. But, the fact is, many of the best lawyers out there are introverts because they are reflective, intuitive, independent, more self-aware, and great at listening. During this interactive webinar, Nancy Ancowitz, the author of Self Promotion for Introverts, and Heidi Brown, the author of The Introverted Lawyer, shared their strategies that introverts can use.
Podcast	Networking 101 in the Modern Marketplace	In this episode of The Corporate Counsel Show, Ms Heilbronn – former president of Women Lawyers Association Queensland and the sports legal manager for a government authority in the Middle East – joins host Jerome Doraisamy to discuss her experiences with networking, how such interactions come naturally to her and what other lawyers can learn about what works and doesn’t work, and the right mindset to adopt when making professional approaches. She also unpacks what networking can and will look like in a post-pandemic world, what mediums might be appropriate or not for networking in the “new normal”, and how lawyers of all stripes can put their best foot forward.

The Committee welcomes feedback from the WBA membership about the Toolkit at careertoolkit@wbadc.org. If you have suggestions for resources to include, please use “TOOLKIT RESOURCES” in your email subject line.