A legal career you actually want to be in
Holistic Legal Career Coaching
I’m Liz Turner Bate, a qualified solicitor with 25 years in the legal profession, now coaching women lawyers to build careers they feel connected to, energised by, and genuinely proud of.
What Most Career Advice Misses
Most legal careers are built on one assumption: that you should be able to perform at the same level, every day, indefinitely.
You already know that’s not how it works. Some weeks you’re sharp, decisive, ready to be in the room. Other weeks, concentration is hard to find and everything feels like more effort than it should. That’s not a discipline problem. It’s not a you problem.
The most sustainable, successful legal careers I’ve seen are built by working with your natural energy, not by constantly overriding it.
That’s the work I do with the women I coach: helping you understand your own patterns, and use them, instead of fighting them.
Why I Do This Work
I left private practice because it very nearly ruined my health; first in my late twenties, with chronic back pain and osteoarthritis that cost me five months off work. Then again in my forties, more quietly: bloating, weight gain, perimenopause symptoms that wouldn’t shift even on top-dose HRT, endless colds. None of it was ever quite enough to stop me working, which I think is exactly where so many brilliant women lawyers are: outwardly fine, inwardly running on empty.
Everyone’s saturation point is different, and there’s no shame in finding yours. When I stopped pushing against mine and started working with it, everything changed. I went from being barely able to get off the sofa to being active, climbing mountains and feeling connected to and present in my life.
If you’re already thriving in your career and your life, brilliant – you don’t need me. If you’re not quite there, I’d love to help.
Ways To Work With Me
Power Hour:
One focused hour on the issue you can’t stop turning over.
Six sessions:
For exploring how to work more in line with your personality, your energy, and your focus, so the way you work stops fighting who you are.
Twelve sessions:
Longer-term support to review how you’re currently working, and to make and embed real changes, with accountability along the way.
I also collaborate with law firms and legal organisations to help them better understand, work with and retain their talented people
Ready to talk?
The first step is a conversation about how I can support you. Book a free clarity call below
Not ready for a call yet? Start with my free guide, The Woman Lawyer’s Cyclical Career Advantage, and I’ll keep in touch with more on working with your energy, not against it.