DESIGN YOUR DELTA

Design Your Delta (DYD) offers a research-based method for professional formation, encompassing the Delta Model, as well as a framework and tools for understanding and using the holistic competencies required to succeed and thrive as legal professionals in the 21st century... Phase One began with a series of interviews to explore the extent to which law firms and corporate legal departments are using competency models and how/if the Delta Model enhanced the hiring process. Respondents overwhelming validated the need to add Personal Effectiveness Skills to the T-shaped model and ranked skills related to emotional intelligence and relationship management as some of the most important skills a lawyer needs. We also found that while technology skills were important for the 21st-century lawyer, skills related to Project Management and the Business of Law were valued even more by respondents. Thompson Reuters published our findings online, along with images of our latest iteration of the..