First Group Completed the Third Module of the Program

On September 8 – 10, 2017, the second group of the “Tomorrow’s Lawyer” Program (the “Program”) completed their third training module in Kharkiv, devoted to the extremely important and relevant topic – “Communication in the Legal Community”.

“We have already crossed the equator, and today your group will start learning new skills and you will get knowledge of the most important topics for advocacy: leadership, mentoring, and professional skills advancement. You will also get a valuable knowledge on the professional ethics, lawyer’s independence and constant professional development. I wish you to have the pleasure and maximum benefit from the training” – said Program Leader Mr. Andriy Vyshnevsky, in his opening speech.

The participants were trained by Mrs Iryna Glushchenkova and the expert-moderator of the third day of the module – Mrs Yulia Lisova. The experts of the Program were accompanied by Mr. Sergiy Goncharenko and Mr. Andriy Kostin.

The topics of the three-day training covered the following issues:

• Contemporary understanding of leadership (leadership as a modern approach to managing and leading changes);
• Team development and leadership; management styles (by D. Gowlman);
• Introducing changes: steps and factors that affect changes;
• Mentoring and feedback;
• Interest-based negotiations;
• Continuing professional training and advocacy;
• The ethics of communication between lawyers;
• Features of communication of lawyers in social networks;
• Independence of lawyer and justice.

Participants noted that the adaptive leadership concept was new for them: “I was especially impressed by the fact that the concept of leadership has long been rethought and passed its evolution. Leadership can be inherent in almost all spheres of activity, including advocacy”.

“In the third module, we worked on the Bar Development Strategy. I am pleased to realize that we all – Tomorrow’s Lawyers – have the desire and opportunity to bring changes to the legal profession for the better. Today I have felt unity in us. We will be able to develop this document by the entire legal community and then implement it “, – said the participant of the Program at the end of the training.

The photo tour of the training can be found by the link.