Laterals & Experienced Attorneys

Lateral Integration

Unique to Amundsen Davis is the business development support given to our experienced attorneys as they enter the firm. Lateral partners participate in an intensive year-long integration process including regular sessions with the firm’s business development leadership to establish goals and participate in business growth planning and check-ins with the firm’s executive committee and managing partner. 

Business Growth Support

We get our drive from a shared sense of entrepreneurship. The firm was established, and still operates, on the idea that the potential for career growth should be endless and that the success of our individual attorneys should be based on their efforts and not be hindered by other factors. To that end, the firm provides extensive business development resources to individuals at all levels who demonstrate a need and desire for support. Our professional staff includes a highly trained team of business development and marketing professionals who provide personal coaching and regular group training on business development topics. A business development budget is available to attorneys to provide them with the best advantage to growing their practice.

Professional Development

Amundsen Davis's professional development team goes above and beyond to ensure that our attorneys’ continuing legal education requirements are met and that they have the opportunity to learn and grow outside of these basic requirements. Our continuing legal education program includes:

• Courses reimbursed via firm policy
• In-house CLE tracking
• Administrative support and guidance for hosting in-house seminars and webcasts

Skills Development Group

Ongoing skills training is essential to the continued growth of our attorneys. Providing this support at a firm level provides a number of benefits for the attorney, including the opportunity to learn from perspectives outside their immediate service group, the ability to network with lawyers in other Amundsen Davis offices and exposure to a  subject or technique outside their everyday practice. Clients benefit from this training as it allows all of our lawyers to think about legal issues with a deeper perspective than their niche practice. The Skills Development Group holds monthly engaging educational opportunities, mandatory for associates in their first two years of practice, but open to all firm attorneys,  on subjects ranging from written discovery to ethical practices.

Mentorship

Amundsen Davis's cultural commitment to the personal and professional growth of our attorneys is evident best in the firm’s mentorship program. A mentor is defined as an experienced and trusted adviser and that is exactly what the program aims to achieve as a connection between our mentors and mentees. Our mentors provide guidance and encouragement, an ear to listen, a brain to pick and a push in the right direction when needed.

The mentorship program happens in three phases to account for where each of our firm members is on their personal journey.

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