Mentoring Legal Professionals
Kim Ross, Second Vice President of the Legal Assistants of North
Texas Association (LANTA), addressed the National Association
of Legal Assistants (NALA) Education Conference in Sparks,
Nevada, July 2004, about the value and the need of mentoring
relationships in the legal profession. NALA’s affiliated paralegal
associations in Alabama, California, Texas, and Kansas each
supports a mentoring program. But how does an organization
initiate a mentoring program? And why?