The President's proclamation of National Mentoring Month focuses on the great need for mentors for America's youth, and the resulting benefits to mentees, including self-confidence, goal achievement, and strength of character.
However, in recent years, the legal profession has also begun to formally and informally adopt mentorship as a model to support attorney development and success. In 2013, the NALP (National Association for Law Placement, Inc.) Foundation and Beyond the Bar, a division of Thomson Reuters, published the results of a comprehensive study on lawyer mentoring programs, titled "The State of Mentoring in the Legal Profession." For more information about the study, see this post on the Thomson Reuters blog. For further information on legal mentoring, the National Legal Mentoring Consortium offers a reference library with information on books, articles and videos about legal mentorship, as well as links to legal mentoring programs across the country.
The McKusick Law Library also has several titles available which discuss mentorship in the legal profession, and generally:
Opportunity Maker: Strategies for Inspiring Your Legal Career Through Creative Networking and Business Development / by Ari L. Kaplan
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