The Nebo Company in Law Firms
Since 2004, Nebo has worked closely with law firms to strengthen leadership, develop the next generation of lawyers, and cultivate a positive workplace culture.
Our leadership programs are tailored for lawyers at all levels and provide training in foundational skills while building connection, trust, and community inside the firm.
We understand the unique challenges and concerns of lawyers at all career stages.
Nebo has developed a diverse pool of talented, highly-credentialed leadership coaches with deep expertise and passion for coaching law firm leaders. Our coaches support professional success and personal fulfillment, helping firms develop and retain key people.
Developing Talent for Today and Tomorrow
Nebo offers leadership training and one-on-one coaching for associates, senior associates, practice group leaders, and partners.
- Our innovative Sponsorship and Accelerated Mentoring Programs provide a superb opportunity to invest in the next generation of firm leaders while tapping into the wisdom and experience of your senior partners.
- Practice Group Leader Programs ensure that practice group leaders have the support, knowledge, and skills needed to lead the success of their practice area.
- Women’s Leadership Programs are designed as distinctive, career-changing experiences to address the unique challenges and needs of high-potential women.
- Our Skill Development Workshops focus on Emotional Intelligence, Courageous Communication, Delegation, Career Vision, and other key areas. Workshops may be presented as single events or as part of a series.
Customized for you
Nebo brings a tailored approach that begins with listening to your goals, needs, and insights. Before we begin designing for you, we take the time to learn about your firm’s culture, vision, and long-standing practices, as well as your strategic goals for developing your people and the firm. With this insight, we design programs and experiences that build upon your strengths and make meaningful contributions to the firm’s progress.
We help turn your talent strategy into learning experiences that lead to greater professional success and improved retention. Nebo defines success as enabling you to meet—and exceed—your talent development goals.
Innovation begins with a strong foundation
Nebo’s approach builds upon your firm’s history and reputational strengths, even as we share contemporary, innovative models and approaches to coaching, leadership development, culture building, and strategic visioning. We balance foundational values and proven concepts with the contemporary legal environment.
Leadership Development and Coaching
We provide customized leadership training and one-on-one coaching for attorneys and firm leaders. For example, we engaged more than 25 lawyers and functional leaders who each worked with a coach to develop leadership mindsets, collaborative vocabulary, and strategies to apply the firm’s vision effectively.
Strategic Visioning and Long-Term Planning
We support law firms in defining and articulating a compelling vision for the future, particularly during times of structural change or leadership transition. We align strategy with implementation and organize firm-wide engagement to embed values and a distinctive client experience into daily operations.
Cultivating Organizational Culture and Core Values
We facilitate workshop-driven processes that bring forward the voice of the firm. Our work includes refreshing or creating core values with broad organizational buy-in, then designing summits and initiatives to translate those values into daily practices.
A Tailored, Human-Centric Approach
Every engagement begins with listening. We seek to understand a law firm’s cultural context, long-standing practices, and strategic aspirations before designing coaching programs, leadership retreats, or firm-wide initiatives. We model collaboration, compassion, and clarity throughout the process.
Balancing Tradition and Innovation
We respect the legacy and strengths of law firms while introducing coaching, culture-building, and strategic visioning practices that prepare firms for the future. Our work balances honoring foundational values with enabling firms to adapt to an evolving legal and business environment.
Case Study: Law Firm Strategic Planning & Navigating Change
Miles & Stockbridge, PC, a mid-Atlantic law firm based in Baltimore, MD, recognized the need to prepare the firm for the future in light of changes in the law sector and the eventual retirement of a senior partner who had provided leadership for many years. The firm sought a partner to help them build not only a vision for the firm’s future and strategic plan, but also to help develop the next generation of leaders who could implement that transformative vision.
Approach
Nebo collaborated with the firm’s Chairman and CEO others at Miles & Stockbridge to establish a process for creating a strategic vision, developing an action plan to execute the vision, and providing coaching and leadership development to more than 25 lawyers and functional leaders.
Envisioning the Future and Creating a Strategic Plan
The Nebo Company collaborated with a well-known legal industry expert to facilitate a process for understanding the changing legal environment and articulating a compelling vision and strategic plan. Utilizing Nebo’s three-step vision process, the firm defined a differentiating strategy and aligned the organization to implement it.
Refreshing and Integrating Core Values
Once the strategic plan was enacted, Nebo led a series of firm-wide workshops, inviting input into the values that truly distinguish Miles & Stockbridge. The firm has updated its core values as a result of this work and has engaged the entire organization in defining how to bring these values to life on a daily basis.
What Our Clients Say
John Frisch
Chairman, Miles & Stockbridge P.C.
“Nebo is an extraordinary partner. We are seeing exciting results as we lead and execute our strategic plan with vigor and a common purpose new to our firm and unusual in the law firm industry.”
Lucy Stark
Managing Partner, Holland & Hart LLP
"Our partnership with Nebo has been transformational for Holland & Hart's leadership development. Over the past few years, Nebo has delivered exceptional results through multiple leadership training sessions for our firm management, several intensive research and coaching collaborations with our practice groups, and a compelling presentation to our entire partnership.
Their work on our Holland & Hart Leadership Academy has become a cornerstone of our talent development strategy, creating stronger, more effective leaders across our organization. Nebo's deep understanding of the legal industry, combined with their practical and engaging approach, makes them an invaluable partner for any law firm serious about developing its leadership capabilities."
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