About the Course

This self‑paced course is designed for busy lawyers and legal professionals who want to create a practical, achievable business development plan. The program combines real‑world insights with research on what drives long‑term career success in the legal profession. Through concise video lessons, guided exercises, and proven frameworks, you’ll learn how to set realistic goals, identify growth opportunities, and translate your priorities into action. By the end of the course, you’ll have a clear, customized five‑year plan to grow your practice, strengthen client relationships, and chart a sustainable professional path.

About the Instructor

This program was developed by Liisa Thomas, a law firm partner and adjunct professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, who has spent her career helping lawyers and legal professionals build careers they love. As both a practicing partner and educator, Liisa has mentored hundreds of lawyers and law students, guiding them through the often‑unclear process of translating daily legal work into long‑term careers they love. Combining real‑world experience with research on motivation, she has distilled what truly drives career satisfaction and business development into a concise, self‑paced curriculum. The result is a practical framework to help you design your own path to success—one that aligns with your strengths, values, and ambitions.

Curriculum

3 Chapters · 20 Lessons

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    Module 1: Getting Started

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      1.1 Assignment: Getting Started, Who Are You?

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      1.2 Introduction and Overview

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      1.3 The Power of Purpose

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      1.4 Identify Your Why

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      1.5 Putting It Together

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    Module 2: Crafting Your Vision

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      2.1 Overview to Crafting Your Vision

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      2.2 Assignment: Delving Into Your Vision

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      2.3 Assignment: Assess Your Calling Level

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      2.4 Scoring Your Calling Level

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      2.5 Putting It Together: Why Find Your Why?

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      2.6 Assignment: Articulating Your Why

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    Module 3: Getting There

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      3.1 Introduction to Getting There

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      3.2 Identify Key Gaps Between Now and Future State

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      3.3 Strategies for Filling Key Gaps

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      3.4 Selecting Key Action Items

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      3.5 Assignment: Bridging Gaps Between Now and Future

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      3.6 Bonus: Saying No

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      3.7 Designing a Fulfilling and Authentic Practice

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      3.8 Assignment: Finalizing Your Plan

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      3.9 Conclusion

What People Are Saying

See how other lawyers and professionals have used Career Charting to clarify their goals and chart their paths to careers they love.

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Liisa takes a novel approach to focusing you on your own career strategy. She surprises you with questions, gets you to think and rethink about where you are heading, and why and how you are heading there. Then she helps you decide on the immediate, near-term, and long term steps that will carry you to your goals. The experience has changed how I think about my work every day.
RW

UK-based partner in global law firm

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Liisa was very helpful in making me, as a young attorney, think strategically about my career path from the start. She guided my thought process by helping me balance multiple variables such as the types of work I enjoy, long-term career goals, and work-life balance. Her questions helped me focus on the long-term impact of the decisions I make even as a first or second year attorney, and helped me grow my own practice even as a junior associate at a Big Law law firm.
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Chicago-based associate in global law firm

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