Become the legal leader you’ve always wanted to be.
Leadership Development for Lawyers · Designed for the Legal Profession · Great Lawyer, Great Leader, Great Life · Built on Research ·
Leadership Development for Lawyers · Designed for the Legal Profession · Great Lawyer, Great Leader, Great Life · Built on Research ·
How we can support you
FOR LAWYERS - 12 MONTH PROGRAM
Elevate Leadership Program
Elevate is a 12-month coaching program for lawyers who are serious about becoming the kind of leader their team needs and their firm wants to keep. Research based practical and built for the realities of legal practice.
FOR LAW FIRMS
In house Leadership Program
From Associates stepping into leadership to Partners building high-performing teams, TLLP designs and delivers in-house programs tailored to your firm's needs. Workshops, coaching, retreats and everything in between.
FREE · 5 MINUTES
Find out how you lead.
You have been leading by instinct. This five minute diagnostic tells you what your instincts actually are, and what to do with them. Six research based styles built specifically for lawyers.
Great Lawyer.
Great Leader.
Great Life.
✔️ You feel confident, in control, on track and connected to your work
✔️ You’re delivering exceptional client value, and it’s being noticed
✔️ Your team is engaged, cohesive and are achieving new levels of success together
✔️ Your law firm is growing, profitable and attracting the best new legal talent
The Legal Leadership Project is a specialised leadership training and coaching company designed for lawyers.
Trusted by Legal Leaders
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Midja is a specialist in the area of leadership in the law. She understands the challenges facing legal leaders and is passionate about giving practical tools and strategies in her workshops. We were delighted to have Midja present to our team recently. Midja has a high-energy, positive and engaging facilitation style.
Genevieve Dee, Partner, Landers & Rogers
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We have been lucky enough to have Midja providing legal leadership training to our firm, and we are never letting her leave! Midja has run our in-house leadership program at all levels of the firm. Midja is a breath of fresh air and has been instrumental to our legal leadership training at the firm.
Alison McNamara, Legal Director, Chamberlains
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Midja has an energetic ability to inspire our firms’ leadership team to grow our people to their full potential. She has provided me with thought provoking and challenging leadership, mindset and values content for some years now.
Melanie Findlay, Managing Partner, Rees Jones
Midja Fisher, Founder of The Legal Leadership Project
With 25+ years experience as a lawyer, partner, coach and author of three leadership books, including ‘Great Lawyer to Great Leader’, Midja has elevated the legal careers of 1000+ lawyers with her philosophy and belief in authentic, confident leadership and success.
Midja's Legal Clients
Ashurst
Corrs Chambers Westgarth
Rin Kim Law
JHK Legal
Gallant law
Chamberlains
Shine Lawyers
Focus Family Law
Damien Greer
Trilby Misso
Australian Family Lawyers
Travis Schultz & Partners
Cth and NSW Director of Public Prosecutions Office
Carbone Lawyers
McMahon Clarke
Rees R & Sydney Jones
Hillhouse Legal Partners
Parker Coles Curtis
Landers & Rogers
Queensland Law Society
Hartley Family Law
Merthyr Law
Donaldson Law
James Conomos Lawyers
Legal Aid Queensland
Law Institute of Victoria
SLF Lawyers
Effective Legal Leadership is the difference between
Firm A
✅ Achieves higher profitability & growth through leadership at all organisational levels
✅ Gains national industry recognition for delivering exceptional client value
✅ Builds commitment, engagement and loyalty within teams
✅ Attracts and retain the best legal talent
✅ Leads the market & stays ahead of industry changes
✅ Invests in future partners & long-term business longevity
Firm B
❌ Struggles to attract top-tier legal talent and loses their best people to competitors and other organisations
❌ Faces stagnation in growth and profitability
❌ Compromises client satisfaction & loyalty
❌ Experiences low engagement and high turnover rates within teams
❌ Falls behind market-leading practices and innovations, losing competitive advantage
❌ Misses out on nurturing firm leadership and sustainability
Just being a great technical lawyer isn’t enough anymore. Too often, firms put technical lawyers into leadership positions and hope they rise to the occasion.
But what got you here, won’t get you there.
- Midja Fisher, 'Great Lawyer to Great Leader’ book