Lawyer to Lawyer Mentoring Program Forms & Materials
Current Mentoring Participants
- Create, submit, and download your mentoring agreement and plan
- View and print out Worksheet A for your first meeting
Mentoring Plan
The Mentoring Plan includes core concepts, lawyering skills, and experiences that should be used as learning activities for the new lawyer and mentor during their meetings. The Mentoring Plan is developed by the mentor and the new lawyer together during their first meeting by selecting a minimum of eight activities and topics from a list of 40 possibilities. The Mentoring Plan serves as a checklist of activities that the new lawyer and the mentor are required to complete together by the end of their mentoring term.
The Mentoring Plan provides an introduction for new lawyers to the following general topics:
- The Legal Community & the Community at Large
- Personal & Professional Development
- Ethics
- Law Office Management
- Client Communication, Advocacy and Negotiation
Each of the activities and experiences that may be selected as part of an individual Mentoring Plan references a worksheet. Worksheets include questions designed to generate meaningful discussion between a mentor and new lawyer, cites to the Ohio Rules of Professional Conduct, and supplementary legal articles. Use of the worksheets is not mandatory, but participants are strongly encouraged to review them.
Mentoring Agreement
All participants are required to submit a Mentoring Agreement, which defines the parameters of their mentoring relationship and limits potential liability. The new lawyer and mentor should submit this agreement along with their Mentoring Plan at their first meeting at the start of the mentoring term.
View In-house Mentoring Agreement
(To be used where the new lawyer and mentor have the same employer)
View Outside Mentoring Agreement
(To be used where the new lawyer and mentor have different employers)
Certificate of Satisfactory Completion
In order to receive credit for completing the mentoring program, a Certificate of Satisfactory Completion must be executed by both the new lawyer and the mentor at the conclusion of the mentoring term. In so doing, the new lawyer and mentor certify the following:
- The new lawyer has satisfactorily completed the Lawyer to Lawyer Mentoring Program
- The activities selected in the Mentoring Plan were completed
- There was a discussion about substance abuse and mental health issues
- There was at least nine hours of mentoring during six in-person meetings
Upon receipt and approval of the Certificate of Satisfactory Completion, new lawyers and mentors will receive new lawyer training or CLE credit.
Download Certificate of Satisfactory Completion
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