The Breakthrough Lawyer: High-Performance Habits

Unlock your potential & thrive in your legal career!

The High-Performance Habits microcredential provides a roadmap to a successful and fulfilling legal career. This in-depth course uncovers the 10 core habits of successful and life-satisfied lawyers, based on research obtained by interviewing numerous global business and legal leaders. You will learn where you want to go with your career, and how you can get there by carving out a unique personal legal brand.

Key features include:

Exclusive access to unique guidance from more than 30 global business and legal leaders.
Teachings from brilliant in-house lawyers, including the Global General Counsels of Apple, AON, Oracle, PayPal, Medtronic, Zurich Insurance, NetApp, Mars Wrigley, Juniper Networks, Verizon, the US SEC and National Australia Bank.
Insights about what clients expect from successful business people, including Mike Cannon-Brookes, the billionaire co-founder of software company Atlassian as well as David Gonski, David Thodey, NY Governor George Pataki and Anthony Eisen, the billionaire co-founder of Afterpay.
Learn how to pitch yourself/your-ideas from Rawson Thurber – the writer/director of Hollywood hits such as Dodgeball, We’re the Millers and Red Notice.
Understand how to deliver a brilliant client/stakeholder experience from Dr Joseph Michelli: NY Times #1 Bestselling author and inductee into the Global Customer Experience Hall of Fame.
Explore what makes for success in large law firms from the global leaders of Ashurst, Baker McKenzie and Deloitte.
Develop compelling and achievable life and career plans with expert guidance.
Assistance to identify and cultivate your unique personal legal brand to stand out in an increasingly competitive market.
Personalised coaching feedback on your plans.

You will learn from Nick Abrahams, an award-winning innovator, successful leader, lawyer, legaltech entrepreneur, and Bond University educator, and upon completion, will be formally recognised with a digital Certificate of Achievement from Bond University.

Hear from The Breakthrough Lawyer Program participants

“The Program has been a catalyst for positive change in my legal career. I now approach problems with a fresh, innovative mindset that's already benefiting my internal clients and colleagues. I highly recommend it to lawyers of any experience level wanting to enhance their commercial acumen and delivery of legal services.”

Andrea Comini, Senior Corporate Counsel, TAL Group

“I loved the course. I've done a lot of courses in my time and I think one of the standouts of this course was it really challenged me. I would happily recommend this course.”

Michelle Graham, Director of Legal, Transport for NSW

“I really liked the access to all of the industry experts and the insights that they gave. There was a wide breadth of experts with many big names. It wasn't just lawyers, which I think was really good.”

Jessica Punch, Senior Associate, DMAW Lawyers

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Meet your course instructor

Nick Abrahams, Futurist & Global Leader Digital Transformation, Lawyer

Nick is a LinkedIn Top Voice in Technology. He has been a partner at international law firm Norton Rose Fulbright for over twenty years, spending the last seven years in global technology and innovation leadership roles. His team won the Technology Law Firm of the Year award. Nick co-created the world’s first AI-enabled privacy chatbot and won the Financial Times newspaper’s Asia Innovator or the Year Award. He is a member of the NSW Law Society AI Taskforce and has been a judge on the AMCHAM Alliance AI Awards and the Women in AI Awards. He was an advisor to Berkerley Law Executive Education (USA) on their GenAI for Lawyers course. He is the Co-founder of Lawpath, an online legal solution which has served over 400,000 customers, and was one of the first companies globally to roll out a legal GenAI app. He is the author of the Amazon best selling books Big Data, Big Responsibilities and Digital Disruption in Australia.

Contributing Experts

Throughout the modules of the course, you will hear from leaders, experts and fellow lawyers including:

Global Business Leaders

Mike Cannon-Brookes - Co-founder & Billionaire, Atlassian
Anthony Eisen - Co-founder & Billionaire, Afterpay
David Gonski - Business Leader
Eddie Hartman - Co-founder, LegalZoom (USA)
John Meacock - (Fmr) Global Head of Strategy, Deloitte (USA)
Paul Jenkins - Global CEO, Ashurst (UK)
Deena Shiff - Chair & (Fmr) General Counsel, Telstra
David Thodey - Business Leader
Chris Freeland - Managing Director, APAC, Baker McKenzie

Global General Counsels

Dan Cooperman - Global General Counsel, Apple and Oracle
Lisa Mather - (Fmr) Global General Counsel, PayPal & current General Counsel, Mars Wrigley (USA)
Dan Berkovitz - (Fmr) General Counsel, Securities & Exchange Commission (US)
Katja Roth Pellanda - Global General Counsel, Zurich Insurance (Switzerland)
Marc Lawrence-Apfelbaum - General Counsel - Time Warner Cable Inc.
Matthew Fawcett - Global General Counsel, NetApp (USA)
Randy Milch - Global General Counsel, Verizon
Bill Reid - General Counsel, Woolworths
Christina Demetriades, General Counsel, EMEA and Global Leader of Legal Transformation Accenture
Rob Mobassaly, Global General Counsel, Juniper Network
Tony Villani, General Counsel, Nationstar Mortgage Holdings, former VP & Associate General Counsel, Goldman Sachs
Cameron Findlay - AON, Medtronic & Archer Daniel Midlands Company
James Couch - Vice President – Legal, Thales (Aus)

Specialist Skills

Rawson Marshall Thurber - Hollywood Writer/Director (USA)
Kirsten Ferguson - Thinkers50 Top10 Author Head & Heart – The Art of Modern Leadership
George E Pataki - 53rd Governor of New York, Lawyer
Olga Mack - Legal Entrepreneur & Thought Leader
Joseph Michelli - NY Times #1 Best Selling Author, & Customer Service Expert

Breakthrough Lawyer High Performance Habits

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Course information
Designed for flexible learning around a busy schedule, this course is delivered 100% online via 4 self-paced online modules with videos and learning activities. The estimated learning time is 16.5 hours.
MODULE 1 - Be a Gamechanger
- Purpose: Finding meaning in your work
- Leadership: Inspiring, empowering and steering teams
- Adaptability: Facing change head-on
MODULE 2 - Build Unstoppable Connections
- Relationships: Forging positive connections
- Reputation: Establishing a personal brand
- Service: Prioritising exceptional client service
- Communication: Being an excellent listener and communicator
MODULE 3 - Elevate Your Performance
- Curiosity: Learning and exploring drives, performance, satisfaction and growth
- Self-care: Investing in mental and physical health
- Insight: Understanding your own capabilities and life-goals
MODULE 4 - Build Your Own Success Blueprint
- Life Plan Gap Analysis
- Career Plan Gap Analysis
- The Personal Asset Inventory
Who should complete this course?

This course is designed for lawyers, law students and legal operations professionals anywhere in the world who want to learn where they can go with their career and how they can get there by carving out a unique personal legal brand.
We encourage General Counsels or Heads of Learning & Development in law firms to consider this course as an ideal opportunity for all lawyers in your teams. We are happy to provide a discount for multiple registrations from your organisation.

Designed for flexible learning around a busy schedule, this course is delivered 100% online via 4 self-paced online modules with videos and learning activities. The estimated learning time is 16.5 hours.

MODULE 1 - Be a Gamechanger

Purpose: Finding meaning in your work
Leadership: Inspiring, empowering and steering teams
Adaptability: Facing change head-on

MODULE 2 - Build Unstoppable Connections

Relationships: Forging positive connections
Reputation: Establishing a personal brand
Service: Prioritising exceptional client service
Communication: Being an excellent listener and communicator

MODULE 3 - Elevate Your Performance

Curiosity: Learning and exploring drives, performance, satisfaction and growth
Self-care: Investing in mental and physical health
Insight: Understanding your own capabilities and life-goals

MODULE 4 - Build Your Own Success Blueprint

Life Plan Gap Analysis
Career Plan Gap Analysis
The Personal Asset Inventory

Elevate your performance and define your unique brand

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