PracticeCraft
Law school teaches you to think like a lawyer.Almost nobody teaches you how to work like one.
PracticeCraft teaches the practical skills of professional legal practice — the things lawyers are expected to understand when they enter a firm, but rarely learn in law school.
- When do I tell a partner I’m overloaded?
- What does “take a first run at this” actually mean?
- How do I docket this?
- What should my assistant be doing?
- How polished should a first draft be?
- What do I do if I made a mistake?
Now in development
Working With Your Legal TeamHow lawyers work effectively with assistants, clerks and the people around them.You know how to analyze a case. Nobody taught you what happens at 9:03 Monday morning.
Three lawyers give you work at once.
What takes priority?
A partner says “take a first run at this.”
What exactly are they expecting?
You’ve never docketed time before.
What makes a good time entry?
You made a mistake.
When — and how — do you tell someone?
You suddenly have an assistant.
What should they actually be doing?
A client asks something you don’t know.
How do you respond professionally without bluffing?
PracticeCraft teaches the unwritten operating skills of professional legal practice.
Curriculum
Ready for Practice
A primer to the realities of professional legal practice.
Designed for the transition between law school and practice, Ready for Practice gives incoming lawyers a common foundation in the skills firms often teach informally, inconsistently or by trial and error.
Program 01
Working With Your Legal Team
How lawyers work effectively with assistants, clerks and the people around them.
The first PracticeCraft program, now in development. Ten modules on delegation, handoffs, supervision and the trust that builds between a lawyer and the people they work with.
See the full program- 01You’re Already Managing a Team
- 02Know Your Team
- 03What Should I Delegate?
- 04The Perfect Handoff
- and six more
Don’t just tell lawyers what good practice looks like.Let them practise it.
PracticeCraft uses real situations lawyers recognize — not generic management theory.
The HANDOFF framework
H
Headline Outcome
A
Audience & Purpose
N
Needed Inputs
D
Deadline & Priority
O
Ownership & Authority
F
Format & Quality
F
Follow-Up
A practical structure for giving another person enough information to actually succeed.
From the program
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Try it
It’s Monday at 4:15 PM.
Your assistant already has:
- a partner closing Tuesday morning
- another associate’s court filing Wednesday
- a client package promised today
You discover you need a 150-page motion record prepared for filing tomorrow at 3:00.
Which instruction would you send?
Select an option to see how the program responds.
What participants get
Built to be useful after the course is over.
01
Watch
Concise visual lessons.
02
Read
Substantive written chapters.
03
Practise
Realistic scenarios.
04
Apply
Worksheets using actual work.
05
Keep
Practical frameworks and reference tools.
06
Do
Actions that change behaviour at work.
Handbook
Ready for Practice
PracticeCraft Handbook
Detailed written reference chapters.
Reference card
- H
- A
- N
- D
- O
- F
- F
Practical Toolkits
HANDOFF cards, decision frameworks and worksheets.
Practice OS
Practice OS
A simple system participants use to turn lessons into working habits.
Design previews of materials in development. Nothing on this page is downloadable.
For firms
Built for lawyers. Designed with firms.
PracticeCraft can give incoming and junior lawyers a common foundation in practical skills that senior lawyers otherwise teach repeatedly, inconsistently and often informally.
PracticeCraft teaches
- general professional-practice skills
- common frameworks
- real-world scenarios
- habits that travel across firms and practice groups
Your firm teaches
- your people
- your systems
- your workflows
- your precedents
- your culture
- your specific expectations
Founding design partner
Help shape the first programs.
We are looking for a small number of firms to help shape the first PracticeCraft programs through interviews with partners, associates, assistants and clerks, followed by pilot feedback.
Possible firm-specific additions
- assistant and clerk capability maps
- practice-group workflows
- internal escalation norms
- firm-specific scenarios
- internal resources and precedents
Early access
I want to take PracticeCraft.
For law students, summer students, articling students and junior lawyers.
Be among the first to hear when PracticeCraft programs become available.
For firms
I’m interested for my firm.
For professional-development leaders, student-program teams, partners and law-firm leaders.