Winning Teams: Leadership and Team Performance for Law Firms
Winning Teams is a custom partnership that aligns your people, your structure, and your strategy. Every engagement is built around what your team needs, and Lexlee Overton, a fifth-generation trial lawyer, leads the work herself.
Lexlee leads every session herself.
Every plan starts with Predictive Index data.
Most firms stay with us for years.
Team trainings can qualify for CLE credit.
Picture the week before trial. The exhibits are tabbed and numbered. Your paralegal already knows which witness needs a call on Sunday night, and your associate caught the gap in the expert’s report before you did. Nobody had to be asked twice. A team like that does not form by luck. Someone hired for it, trained it, and led it.
Lexlee learned this early. As a young trial lawyer she carried a heavy docket with a lot of trials, and her staff and co-counsel became an extension of her. The team moved as one, or the case paid for it. She has spent the three decades since studying what makes a legal team trust each other, think clearly under pressure, and keep performing long after the verdict.
Law school taught you to research, argue, and persuade. It did not teach you how to hire for fit, how to read the way two people will work together, or how to hold a team accountable without doing everything yourself. Those are learnable skills, and Winning Teams teaches them to you and your leadership team inside your own firm.
Three elements, built in order, give your firm a team that performs at a high level whether or not you are in the room.
We start with the people you already have. Predictive Index assessments and the Working Genius model show how each person is wired, where they do their best work, and where friction tends to start. For many leaders, years of team tension suddenly make sense.
Your firm’s goals get matched to the strengths of your people. We clarify your values, mission, and vision, set one-year and five-year goals, and put the right people in the right seats to carry them out.
Insight fades without practice. Monthly coaching, team training, and quarterly accountability turn what your leaders learn into how they actually run the firm, so the change is still there a year later.
Winning Teams follows a talent optimization cycle that we repeat and refine as your firm grows.
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Every person on your team completes the Predictive Index assessment, and Lexlee evaluates your leadership, structure, and culture. You see your firm clearly before anything changes.
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Together we build your growth plan: core values, mission, vision, an updated org chart, and the one-year and five-year goals that everything else serves.
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Each open role gets a behavioral and cognitive target before a single resume is read. You interview with structured guides and choose with data, not gut feel alone.
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Monthly coaching and team training build the habits of a high-performing team: clear communication, real accountability, and leaders who develop their people.
The science behind the work
Predictive Index is a behavioral and cognitive assessment that shows what drives people at work. Lexlee is a Predictive Index practitioner. She uses it to show you how your people are wired, which roles fit them, and how any two people on your team are likely to work together. When you hire, it turns a job description into a clear behavioral target, so you know exactly who you are looking for.
Lexlee is also a certified facilitator of The Six Types of Working Genius, the model developed by Patrick Lencioni and The Table Group. It names the kinds of work that give each person energy and the kinds that drain it. Teams use it to divide work more wisely and to stop mistaking a different genius for a lack of effort.
Your team completes the assessments as part of the program. If you would like to experience the work before committing, ask Lexlee about a free Predictive Index assessment when you schedule your conversation.
Every package is customized. Most firms begin with the full program, and firms facing an urgent hire can start with The Hire Process and grow from there.
A custom partnership for firm owners and leadership teams, built around what your team needs. A typical engagement includes:
You are not buying a block of hours. Lexlee stays with the work until the goals we set together are reached.
Predictive Index hiring support for the role you cannot afford to get wrong.
Not sure which one fits your firm? That is exactly what the first conversation is for.
Communication, mindset, and leadership sessions can be structured for CLE credit, so your lawyers grow as leaders while they meet their requirements.
“Lexlee left us with a mission statement, a set of unifying values and goals, and a to-do list to accomplish these goals. We bonded and celebrated everything we do better than anyone on the planet.”
Don Malarick, Ohio Trial Lawyer
“She looked at the past financials, case load, marketing, and my own time allocations. It was really helpful to have someone else review things and give me insights into situations I wasn’t seeing for myself.”
Laurie Kholler, Oklahoma Trial Lawyer
Lexlee grew up watching lawyers work. She is a fifth-generation trial lawyer with more than thirty years in the courtroom, much of it representing clients in complex cases involving serious injury and wrongful death. She built and led her own trial teams long before anyone called it leadership development.
Today she coaches firm owners, managing partners, and legal teams across the country, pairing what she learned in the arena with the science of human behavior. She facilitates every Winning Teams engagement personally. You will not be handed off to a junior consultant.
Lexlee is a Predictive Index practitioner, a certified Working Genius facilitator, and the author of the forthcoming book The Empowered Lawyer. She has taught for the Louisiana State Bar Association, the Baton Rouge Bar Association, the New Orleans Bar Association, and Tulane Law School.
Winning Teams works with firms of many sizes, from a small practice with a handful of people to multi-office firms. The plan is built around your team, and larger groups may use breakout sessions for deeper individual work.
Engagements start with a minimum of six to twelve months, because changing how a team hires, communicates, and holds itself accountable takes time and practice. Most firms choose to stay with us for years as they grow. Others bring us in for a focused season to work through a specific challenge, and that works too. Every package is customized to what your team needs, including how long we work together.
Both. Coaching and strategy meetings usually run on Zoom, and many firms bring Lexlee on site for team trainings and planning days. Some leaders choose a VIP day in Baton Rouge to step away from the office and plan the year (and enjoy some very good food in bayou country).
Yes. We start with a vision for where your firm wants to grow, and the work is customized from there. Focus areas range from hiring and accountability to revenue goals, firm culture, and the personal growth of your leaders.
Yes. Lexlee can work with your trial team on mental, emotional, and physical preparation and on any phase of trial, from voir dire to closing. The plan is customized case by case.
No. Your team completes the assessments as part of the program. If your firm later wants to use Predictive Index internally on its own, that license is billed by Predictive Index directly.
Yes. Lexlee facilitates every session herself, from the first evaluation through every quarterly review.
There is no proposal on the first call. Lexlee wants to understand your firm, your people, and where you want to be a year from now.
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A conversation with Lexlee about your firm, your team, and your goals.
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If it is a fit, Lexlee builds a plan around what your firm needs most.
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Lexlee leads the work personally and stays with you as your firm grows.
With intention, anything is possible.
