Qualifying mentees are lawyers licensed with The Florida Bar for five or fewer years.

You can sign up through the MentorcliQ app available on the Apple App Store or Google Play and typing in floridabar.mentorcliq.com or you can enroll on the Bar’s MentorcliQ webpage

Mentees:

• Identify what they want to achieve and communicates that to their mentor
• Help develop a mentor-mentee agreement
• Take full advantage of opportunities to learn
• Record interactions with their mentor and keep track of  development and progress
• Commit to meeting with their mentor on a regular basis
• Maintain confidentiality
• Are open-minded

Counsel to Counsel provides the opportunity for new lawyers to gain practical experience and learn from established attorneys how to build a professional reputation and create a successful practice.

Our research shows that:

• Mentees are five times more likely to be promoted than those without a mentor.
• Nine in 10 workers with a mentor say they feel happier within their career.
• Mentees can gain greater awareness of other approaches to work by learning how others do things.
• Professionals who participate in mentoring are five times more likely to advance in pay grade.
• A relationship with a mentor can provide a sounding board for feedback on personal and professional goals and ideas, as well as a source of stability when facing new challenges.
• Mentors can be safe confidants for ideas and challenges.
• Mentees build a network of colleagues and gain knowledge of different areas of the profession.

You can select up to three potential mentors via the MentorcliQ app based on your profile, relationship preferences, and personality test results. A program administrator will then match you with your mentor.

You can connect virtually via the MentorcliQ app, which can eventually lead to an in-person meeting with your mentor.

Participation requires at least four meetings with your mentor, either virtually or in-person, over the span of the nine month program and follow-up discussions after the Practical Experience requirements are met.

Communication should occur through the MentorcliQ app or in-person.

What you discuss with your mentor is up to you! The program focuses on four milestones that serve as a guide:

1. Career planning and professional development
2. Lawyer-client relationship
3. Lawyer-Bar relationship
4. Client development and community involvement

MentorcliQ allows you to measure mentoring success as a tool to facilitate a mutually beneficial relationship.