Qualifying mentors are lawyers who have been members of the Bar for five or more 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

Mentors:

• Serve as a guide, coach, advisor, advocate, counselor and role model
• Assist their mentee in identifying professional and personal goals
• Help develop a mentor-mentee agreement
• Commit to meeting with mentee on a regular basis
• Record of interactions with their mentee and keep track of development and progress.
• Maintain confidentiality
• Are open-minded

Through Counsel to Counsel, established lawyers can share their insights and experiences with young lawyers – in turn getting fresh perspectives, expanding their networks, and securing their own professional legacies.

Our research shows that:

• Mentors are six times more likely to be promoted compared to others in their field.
• As mentees move on to have successes of their own, their mentors can increase their own reputation within the field and their networks.
• Mentors can gain exposure to new ideas, educational methods, technologies, and perspectives through conversations with their mentees.
• Mentorship provides a sense of fulfillment and satisfaction from helping others and contributing to the development of others in the profession.
• Florida Bar members who participate as mentors can earn CLE credit.

Mentors will be provided with a packet with milestones and examples of how to reach each one. Pairs must complete at least one activity from each of the four milestones and complete five Practical Experience requirements.

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

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

Participation requires at least four meetings with your mentee 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 mentee 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.