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Effective Hands-On Training That Millennial Lawyers Embrace and Boomer Lawyers Approve

By Mark McCurdy and Suellen Wideman
June 27, 2011

Law firm training programs are being squeezed by the return of an old problem to the new workplace ' the generation gap. Americans today “are just as likely now as they were during the turbulent 1960s to say there is a generation gap between young and old.” The Pew Research Center's February 2010 “Millennials ' A Portrait of Generation Next.” This generational chasm is forcefully felt when it comes to developing partner-approved, associate-desired training.

On the one side of the generational divide are the purse-string-holding, firm-controlling baby boomers who embrace 1970s-era top-down methods of legal training. On the other side are today's consumers of that training ' techno-savvy millennial lawyers who demand collaborative learning and resist forced injections of information. Caught in the middle are the people responsible for the programming.

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