Mentoring What You Can Learn From Coach John Wooden

Developing the Next Generation of Rainmakers Mentoring: What You Can Learn from Coach John Wooden If you’re looking for your own role model for a great mentor, I believe you can learn a great deal from one of the greatest coaches in the history of sports: John Wooden. UCLA remarkably won the NCAA basketball championship 10 out of 11 years from 1964 through 1975, with a wide variety of different players and different teams. Yet, Coach Wooden’s principles never changed. We all know that practicing law in a firm has changed dramatically over the last several years, but the principles of integrity, professionalism and client service have not changed. As a mentor, you need to help mentees understand how changes in the law practice affect them, while exhibiting the time honored principles. Here are five lessons mentors can learn from Coach Wooden: The legal profession is changing more rapidly in the past few years than in the century preceding them. But lawyers of high principles need not and should not change. I practiced law for 37 years developing a national construction law practice representing some of the top highway and transportation construction contractors in the US.