Attorney Coach

Now, those looking for a attorney coach can check out our dedicated lawyer website, Hot Blue Coaching!  Or you can still request a free consultation from the original Feroce Coaching site as well. 

Finding the right attorney coach is a product of expertise, experience, and chemistry.  I'm Cameron Powell, Founder of Feroce and Certified Business and Executive Coach, and for most clients I offer all three (chemistry, so ineffable, will take a free coaching consultation to ferret out).  The attorney clients with whom I work fit into several categories.  Which one are you?

Not Yet Unhappy.  You are considering a career in the law and want sound advice on law schools or guidance into your first legal job, from a new-lawyer's legal coach

Unhappy.  You want to change careers within the law or -- Really Unhappy -- to leave the law and want an attorney career coach

Just Want to Crush the Competition, Make Truckload of Cash.  You want to grow your practice and want a lawyer coach or specifically a lawyer marketing coach

Want to Improve Your Legal Skills?  See Jim's Attorney Coaching.

Want It All.  You want what is essentially life coaching but from the perspective of a lawyer life coach

Founder and Attorney Coach Cameron Powell

Attorney coaching is one of my specialties precisely because I am a coach who has also practiced law -- in several of its many personalities -- and, unlike many coaches, I have also started up and marketed several successful businesses (both with capital and on a shoestring).  The legal experience I bring to bear in our coaching relationship includes:

Graduated from Harvard Law School

Summer clerkships with the Attorney General's Office of Alaska (working on the Exxon-Valdez spill); the Governor's Office of Colorado; Lafili & Van Crombrugghe of Brussels; Weil, Gotshal & Manges in Washington, D.C.; and Holland & Hart, Denver

Judicial clerkship, U.S. District Court, District of Colorado

Trial lawyer, Attorney General's Honor Program, U.S. Department of Justice

Litigation and Intellectual Property Departments, Foley & Lardner

Adjunct Professor Intellectual Property, The George Washington Law Center

General Counsel and VP of Business Development, SnapNames.com

Solid Business Experience.  After I left the full-time practice of law, I developed an entirely new portfolio of expertise in business and policy roles for publicly-traded and start-up companies, did venture-capital fundraising and business development, and consulted in search engine optimization and Internet marketing.  See my bio.

I have special expertise in the challenges and problems facing dissatisfied lawyers or those with business challenges, as well as the ways and means of getting out of firms, and even out of the law.  See my bio for the full story (with versions both long and short). 

At Feroce we excel at the unconventional penetrating observation.  If I don't come up with a fresh observation -- some new angle on your situation that neither you nor your friends have yet thought of -- your first session is free.  Wait -- it's already free.  But I'd be surprised, nevertheless.  In all of our coaching, as in coaching generally, there's really no such thing as a discrete area of coaching like "attorney coaching":  sometimes it looks like business coaching, most of the time it will be simply life coaching.  You shouldn't want it any other way.

To see some of the many powerful tools that can be included at no extra cost in your coaching, see the Strategic Life Planning Process:  The Creation of the Future Self.

Attorney Marketing Coach CJ Liu

See CJ's lawyer marketing profile.

Law Practice and Life Coach Jim Shumate

With 31 years' experience in the law and legal profession, where he focused on helping people to effect change, plus a broad layman’s religious background, Jim helps clients find the kind of balance in their personal and professional life.

Jim began his education with a prestigious appointment to the U. S. Air Force Academy, Class of 1973.  After being diagnosed with diabetes, he completed his degree at the University of Utah.  He graduated from the University Of Utah College Of Law in 1975.

Since law school, he has worked as a prosecutor, defense lawyer, civil litigator and is presently a Master of the Bench in an American Inn of Court.  He has tried hundreds of cases to jury verdict in the State of Utah.  He also served as a Bar Examiner in the State of Utah for ten years.

Jim's Attorney Coaching

Hone your skills as a successful advocate for courtroom or business settings
 

Learn how to focus on the key elements of your work so that you don’t waste time in frivolous effort.  I can show you that even the most complicated looking set of facts can be reduced to a question that you could literally write on a post-it note.
 

Get organized for court, meetings and presentations.
 

I can show you how to prepare for hearings and trials so that your case is clearly and efficiently presented.  Are you worried that your work is boring to the jury or simply annoying to the judge?  I’ll show you how to hold their attention and succeed in presenting your case.  Is your audience a committee at work?  The same principles apply.  Are you making a pitch to a new potential client?  Learn your personal strengths and use them to your advantage.

Related Pages: 

Lawyer Coaching:  Individual Practices, Lawyers, and Lawyers' Lives

Attorney Career Coach:  Who Else Wants to Leave the Law?

Legal Coach:  Mistakes to Avoid in Entering the Law

Lawyer Coach:  An Overview

Lawyer Marketing Coach:  Plan and Execute Sure-Fire Marketing Strategies

Lawyer Marketing Coaches:  Sticking to Basics -- Referrals

Attorney Coaching:  Types of Lawyer Clients

Career Coaching

Top Signs You Could Use a Career Coach

Recent Coaching Conversations (one with a lawyer in a large firm)

Related Pages on Hot Blue Coaching:

Lawyer Coach

Lawyer Life Coach

Lawyer Career Coach

Lawyer Marketing Coach

Speech Coach

Writing Coach

Let's talk today about my being your attorney coach.  Ask for a free coaching consultation.