Leadership training for legal professionals
The Park Snyder Group Lunch & Learn series offers legal professionals an opportunity to develop and practice leadership, communication, and management skills in an accessible format.
Each one-hour session is designed to provide practical insights and actionable strategies that support client service, team collaboration, professional growth, and mindfulness.
*Approved as instructor for WA CLE Credits, 1 hour/session. Credit pending for each topic and event submission.
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What kind of leader are you under pressure?
Team members often misconstrue moments of stress as visibility into “who you really are” as a leader. Don’t be bogged down by pressure. Understand what your “flips” are and when they might happen. Use this knowledge to improve performance – for you and your team, at work and beyond.
Improving your mental health by breaking up with fear of failure
Many legal professionals suffer from imposter syndrome, or fear failure the same way they fear physical pain. You don’t have to suffer alone. Here’s what works to cut through the clutter so you can focus on what matters.
Tolerating uncertainty
Learn and practice strategies for moving forward when you don’t have an operating manual. There’s nothing in law school or on the bar that teaches lawyers how to navigate the uncertainty of trial, client management, and internal firm dynamics. Embracing uncertainty is a critical skill to becoming a better leader. Learn how.
Leading with resilience in turbulent times
The legal profession is facing unprecedented uncertainty in 2025. Strengthening your individual and team resilience takes planning and practice. Incorporate the research driven strategies of “master resilience training” to emerge from challenge stronger than who you were going into the chaos.
How to approach sales when you hate the word
Even first year associates need to be selling. Even and especially if you hate the word, you can learn how to optimize your interactions to set the groundwork for a long and successful legal career. You don’t have to be salesy to become a rainmaker.
Coaching for performance
Introduction to a coaching approach to develop talent, foster problem-solving, and build stronger team performance. This is a leadership discussion that will equip new and experienced leaders alike to become stronger coaches to develop the next generation of talent and achieve stronger results along the way.
Hard conversations as a shortcut to higher performance
Avoiding hard conversations reduces productivity, increases stress, and erodes team culture. Yet avoidance is common among most legal professionals. We provide strategies for preparing and engaging in hard conversations so you can use them to catapult yourself and your team into higher performance.
Giving meaningful feedback
Meaningful feedback - given in the right way, at the right time – is essential to enabling professional development and performance. As lawyers, you were not trained to give or receive feedback. This talk covers the key principles of effective feedback so that you can support your team, and focus on growth, leaving defensiveness behind.
Prioritizing like a pro
Prioritization enables professional success – but they don’t teach it in law schools or for the bar exam. Learn and practice frameworks for identifying high-impact tasks, managing competing demands, and focusing attention on what matters most.
Finding your confidence as a legal professional
Strengthen your professional confidence, manage self-doubt, and present with credibility in every setting. Don’t “fake it till you make it” – develop the internal strength you need to become the most effective legal professional.
Who me? Leading a team when you’re not sure what you’re doing
Subject matter expertise doesn’t automatically translate into leadership effectiveness. Whether you are managing one paralegal or an entire team of lawyers across time zones, learn how to achieve higher performance by leading through clarity, vision, and empowerment of others.
Finding your voice
Jane Park didn’t speak English when she was first dropped off at school at age four. Her father was a refugee separated from his family at age 9 when the border between North and South Korea was drawn between his home and school.
As a young law firm associate, Jane didn’t know how to act or what to say– so she stayed quiet. Then she learned the power of finding her true professional voice.
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