How to Get the Most Out of Your Mentorship as a Mentor or Mentee 2024

Course Instructor
Paula J. Price, LLB, BCL, PCC — Certified Executive Coach, Uplevel Lawyer Coaching, Vancouver

About the Course Instructor
Paula Price is a professional certified coach and former litigator. She works exclusively with lawyers to help them create greater career satisfaction, whether that means developing skills to thrive in the job they're in or making a career transition. Paula provides lawyers with structure, support and tools to better align their professional and personal goals, establish greater control over their work, and overcome challenges common to lawyers. Paula helps lawyers with career goals like strategic planning, time and practice management, business development, job transitions and leadership, as well as related personal goals like building self-confidence, managing procrastination and perfectionism, and overcoming self-doubt.

Paula regularly speaks and presents workshops, virtually and in person, for lawyers and law students. She currently runs a group coaching and mastermind program for women lawyers and she has previously offered group training to law students making the transition from law school to law firm. She has presented for law firms, CLEBC, CBA (Women Lawyers Forum, Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers, and Young Lawyers subsections), the Peter A. Allard School of Law, the Office of the Judge Advocate General, the National Association of Legal Placement (NALP Annual Education Conference), Stewart Title Guarantee Company, and Global Lawyers of Canada. Paula also produces a weekly podcast tailored for lawyers in practice, The Joyful Practice for Women Lawyers, where she shares resources, strategies, and interviews to help lawyers achieve both professional excellence and personal satisfaction.

Paula is a Professional Certified Coach licensed with the International Coaching Federation, having earned a Graduate Certificate in Executive Coaching from Royal Roads University in 2017. Paula earned her LLB/BCL from McGill University in 2003 and was called to the Ontraio bar in 2004 and the BC bar in 2005. She practiced in areas of civil litigation and legal research in the Vancouver office of a national law firm for 12 years before starting her coaching practice in 2018.