Amazing Firms, Amazing Practices : Gerry Riskin : Edge International

Top 10 recipients of associates' seal of approval:

1.    Ropes & Gray
2.    Williams & Connolly
3.    Morrison & Foerster       
4.    Fitzpatrick
5.    Shook, Hardy & Bacon
6.    Hughes Hubbard & Reed          
7.    Jones Day
8.    Davis Polk
9.    Paul, Weiss
10.  Skadden, Arps

View the entire 2011 Vault Law Firm Quality of Life Rankings.

ROPES & GRAY REPEATS AS BEST LAW FIRM TO WORK FOR; LAW ASSOCIATES AT WILLIAMS & CONNOLLY MOST SATISFIED

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This clever animation may reinforce Dan Pink's message from his new book Drive. 

Compensation has been the tool of choice in law firms to reward good performance, punish the absence of it and drive change.

You will not want to believe what you are about to hear and see…  ask yourself why?

If you are enlightened, gather your management team and start thinking about how to harness the learnings to create peak performance and lower turnover in your firm.

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I believe in capitalism and free enterprise.  I have a business degree before law.  My practicing years were spent helping clients increase their profits… managing partner years helping my partners increase theirs.  You'll get no socialistic psychobabble from me.

I encourage you to assimilate the compelling evidence that increasing compensation in the hope of enhancing performance actually backfires.  Law firm leaders need to understand when money motivates and when it does not.   In fact, "too much" money demotivates.   Get an introduction to the science that supports this hypothesis in the Ted Talk below.

Once the basic compensation is right, there are better ways to motivate.  If not money, then what?  According to Dan Pink, the presenter in this Ted Talk, the three motivating elements for those who work with complexity, like lawyers, are:

• Autonomy
• Mastery
• Purpose

PUNCHLINE: Investing 18 minutes and 40 seconds may start you on the path to leading your firm to legendary performance, your lawyers staff and clients to legendary satisfaction and, last but not least,  your firm to legendary profits. 

 

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PUNCHLINE: If Social Media matters, then it matters to law firms because everything that matters to society in general must matter to law firms sooner or later.  Watch this and make your own decision.

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Question One:  Do you know the difference between "sex" and "Sachs"

If "YES", go to "Question Two"; if NO, click here

Question Two:  Do you know the difference between "Goldman Sachs" and "Goldmansex"

If "YES", go to "Question Three"; if "NO", GOOD GRIEF !

Question Three:  Do you know the difference between "www.goldmansachs.com" and "www.goldmansex.com"?

If "YES", you might want to contact Rob Muller and offer yourself up as a witness before the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) in Europe.

If "NO" then Goldman Sachs Group Inc is right to complain that "Internet domain name goldmansex.com would cause confusion".

By the way, DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES check out the contents of that other domain name.

This post strictly relies on the accuracy of a Reuter's story of today's date called "Goldman Sachs challenges Web site Goldmansex.com"

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