Adam Lewis, a Director and the Managing Partner of the Australian and New Zealand practices of McKinsey & Company, was one of my co-presenters at the World Masters of Law Firm Management last week, in Sydney.
Adam told us a number of fascinating things about McKinsey, one of the premium consultancies in the world.
Here are the materials from my morning and afternoon sessions at Friday’s World Masters of Law Office Management in Sydney (August 26th) Click here for AM PowerPoint Click here for PM Powerpoint The documents are password protected – please contact me if you need a reminder. Thank you for attending.
“Linklaters is the most productive of London’s 20 largest law firms, generating 24 percent more in fees per employee than bigger competitor Clifford Chance LLP, a Bloomberg survey found.”
“The world’s second-largest law firm had revenue per employee of 168,763 pounds ($304,000) in fiscal 2005, about 32,000 pounds more than Clifford Chance and 20,000 pounds
A quick notes to friends in Australia and New Zealand that I look forward to seeing you on Friday at The World Masters of Law Firm Management in Sydney at the Four Seasons Hotel. Thank you to the Law Council of Australia for inviting me back to this extraordinary event. 
The Fall 2005 edition of our quarterly magazine, Edge International Review, is now available for downloading as a PDF. This is a full color 40 page magazine so may takle a few minutes to download. (Some browsers will display the magazine without downloading it.) Senior management team members in law firms may request a complimentary
Client service reaches new heights at Clifford Chance, which has obtained a 24-hour alcohol licence. According to its spokes-woman, clients can get a refreshment (code for an “alcoholic beverage”?) at any time of the day or night. 
Now in fairness, there are big deals that close in the wee hours and you would not want
For friends and clients in South Africa, here is a reminder of how you can register for my presentation, Rainmaking for Professional Service Firms, at The Gordon Institute of Business Science (University of Pretoria, Johannesburg Campus).
I look forward to seeing some old friends and aquaintances and making some new ones.
Date: Thursday 1
You may never see the day when Shearman & Sterling or White & Case would call their fellow lawyers “money-grubbing leeches touting for business ” but their names appear among advertisers at a site that did just that today. I do not like lawyer jokes and I tire of lawyers being maligned it seems
The techniques managers use to get through a tough agenda in a business context are completely useless in a deposition. To survive the deposition, managers are trained to avoid the tactics they would have used in a business situation. Those who lead law firms are often experiencing more of a deposition environment than a business
