Holland & Knight Celebrates National Mentoring Month
January is National Mentoring Month, and at Holland & Knight mentorship is central to who we are. We pair attorneys at every level for guidance, growth and genuine connection, creating a collaborative culture where Big Law resources meet a supportive, close-knit environment. See what mentoring means to our lawyers.
Joshua Levenson: The beauty of mentorship is you push people to challenge their expectations and to see all the possibilities in every situation.
Meredeth Beers: Holland & Knight puts a lot of resources into making sure that we have a robust mentor program, and I think that's critical. If we want to be an inclusive firm, we need mentoring. If we want our associates trained well, we need mentoring. If we want to foster a sense of community, we need mentoring.
Megan Ehrhart: I would say mentorship is one of the things that has shaped my career the most at Holland & Knight so far, especially having just finished my first year. There's so many things and so many times that what I'm doing or encountering is the first time I've ever even done a specific task or drafted a certain motion or, like, anything I'm doing. So having mentorship just to guide me along how to do things has been absolutely indispensable.
Danielle Price: Mentorship is the small little things. And whether seeing somebody, you know, change in a couple of days or completely change their career over years at a time – I think that is the special part about being a mentor and having those types of relationships.
Jennifer Weaver: My door is always open. I'm happy to talk to my mentees, to go to lunch together, grab coffee together, spend time together. But the more that they invest in that relationship and kind of move it forward, I think that those relationships have been the most productive.
Suzanne Busser: If I need help with anything, I have people that I can go to that will find the answer for me. If they don't know it, they'll find the person who knows the answer. Work that we're doing, if a client has a request for something else and we need extra hands, I could go to a mentor and say, "I need help with this, who do I reach out to?" And that has been very, very beneficial for my career.
Lev Prichard: It's a full-circle process. If we didn't have mentorship, we wouldn't have younger attorneys learning the skills they need to become mid-level seniors and partners, and we certainly wouldn't have the history the firm has now. So if we don't do that, we're doing a disservice to younger attorneys, we're doing a disservice to ourselves and we're doing a disservice to the firm.