Outside of the context of large firms, the legal profession has very few opportunities for mentoring or for finding a mentor. Lynn Schmidt Walters co-founded JD Mentor, a series of workshops designed to provide mentors for new lawyers stepping into their first legal jobs. Walters offers as an example her experience as a recent law school graduate in 2004. “I took the bar and passed. And that was it: I was a lawyer,” Walters said. “But that is as far as I had planned. I guess I hoped that the next steps would be obvious once I was a licensed attorney. They weren’t.” Through Lux Law and JD Mentor, Walters helps lawyers find ways to build a law practice, but to do that in a way that manages stress and promotes intentionality and mindfulness. Walters plans future workshops devoted to specific practice areas and resources for more senior lawyers.
