Promoting and facilitating collaboration between young lawyers is essential to our well established and renown Eurojuris International.
For the past 10 years, JURISMUS has been brilliantly lead by dynamic members form 650 law firms investing time and effort to offer a wide variety of business facilitation & training opportunities.
The JUMP programme, standing for JUrismus Marketing Partnership, works a little like an ERASMUS programme and offers individual exchanges between two Jurismussers. This marketing programme, set up by Jurismus International, encourages young lawyers from our world wide network to exchange with their peers abroad and market their law firms during their stay.
Sven Farbrot, lawyer at Advokatfirma Tofte DA in Norway and active member of the Jurismus Board is thrilled : “We had the pleasure of coordinating three JUMP exchanges this year. These opportunities are unique and provide a great learning curve to our lawyers under the age of forty. This programme ties strong bonds among our Jurismus community and provides a significant added value to our colleagues”.
The exchange is planned between three and five days. The actual programme during their stay is very versatile and depends on the intention and ambition of each participating lawyer. During their stay, young lawyers are exposed to a variety of hands-on experiences, business visits & client facing meetings, congresses & conferences of interest, Court and Chamber of Commerce visits, networking opportunities, etc.
Regular webinars are also scheduled on regular basis and accessible to all Jurismus members. Focussed of various legal aspects and facilitated by known subject matter experts, these lectures offer a wide range of skill sets and leave plenty of time for discussions and Q&As to all participants.
Annual events like the upcoming JURISMUS meeting from 16th to 18th June 2016 are essential; enabling the younger generation of lawyers to meet face to face, develop partnerships and get involved in numerous professional sessions and activities both interesting and entertaining such as mock trials. The speakers selected are always of pristine reputation and considered experts in their fields. This year, Andrew Headway is given the opportunity to engage them on client acquisition. Cultural visits and social events also hold an important part in these events. To find out more, do not hesitate to click on the link above.
Mark Daubney, from Stamp Jackson & Procter LLP, organiser and host of this year’s annual meeting in Hull, Yorkshire tells us: “Our networking activities and social events aim to give young lawyers the confidence to approach and understand other professionals, gain connections in all professional sectors, and most importantly develop a trusting relationship for the future”.
“Young lawyers have tons to offer” adds Dr. Constantin Düchs, International Trademark and Commercial law expert, partner at Rohwedder & Partners in Mainz, Germany. “They use social media on a daily basis and have an ability to build strong ties with one another. Young lawyers also have expertise in legal fields, such as Intellectual property, that were significantly less important in the past and have developed tremendously over the last two decades”.
“Moreover, they are versatile and approach their work both in terms flexibility and work organisation. Juggling with LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, they have their own way of approaching new clients and keep strong relationships with them”.
Investing in young lawyers is not only ensuring them a bright future, it reflects on their colleagues and business opportunities. New technologies and social media have, more than ever, an enhancing role in their development and provides them with unique opportunities to shine.
