I developed the “Stealth Discrimination Model” several years ago to assist managing partners and others responsible for leadership in law firms who (like most of us) simply
Lawyers or Business Experts: Who Should Be in Charge?
It is not a new debate, but the question is perhaps more relevant than it has ever been before: Should lawyers or business wizards manage law firms?
A recent article by Casey Sullivan in Bloomberg Big Law Business profiles chief operating officers at major US law firms that have chosen to put business and finance
Law Firm Senior Management Underrepresented at CLOC Conference
At its second annual conference in Las Vegas in May 2017, the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) offered professional development sessions on a range of topics to more than 1000 attendees – twice the turnout of its first conference, which was held a year ago.
Linklaters to Measure Teams Rather than Individuals: Exciting Model for Our Time
In a post at Legal Business, Matthew Field reports that Linklaters is about to “phase out individual partner metrics and annual assessments to focus on broader measures of team and firm performance.” The new performance-assessment strategy will focus on such areas as “client winning, business development, training and innovation,” Field says.
Based in London,
Law Firm Success Depends on Success of Firm’s Lawyers
I was pleased to be invited by The Law Office Management Association (TLOMA) of Ontario to create an article based on my book, The Successful Lawyer: Powerful Strategies for Transforming Your Practice, for the February, 2017 issue of the association’s publication, TLOMA Today.
The article I submitted, “Drive Law Firm Success by Helping
J+O Firm: Where Start-Ups Utilize Legal Counsel in New Ways
Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves. ~ Steve Jobs
Rachel Johnson and Christina Oshan spent the beginning of their careers at large firms. They noticed that startups
Exciting Breaking News – Transatlantic Merger Creates Global Top 40 Giant: Eversheds Sutherland
On Friday, two major firms I have deeply respected for many years – Eversheds, the global powerhouse based in London, and Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, the exemplary American firm based in Atlanta – announced a merger that changes the multinational legal game.
I have known and watched both firms for a long time. Mark Wasserman,
The Successful Lawyer – Now Available on your Computer, Tablet or Smartphone
The Second Edition of The Successful Lawyer: Powerful Strategies for Transforming Your Practice is now available in both paperback and Kindle versions.
Among the kudos the first edition of this book attracted was one from Tom Peters, the highly acclaimed writer on business-management practice and author of In Search of Excellence, who described
Is the billable hour turning off talented young lawyers?
In an article published in the Globe and Mail earlier this month, Allison Speigel, a commercial litigator with Speigel Nichols Fox LLP, argues convincingly that the billable hour may be at the root of the disaffection of so many recent law graduates with firm-related work.
Among Speigel’s arguments against the profession’s most cherished and
Alternative Legal Providers: A Warning to Law Firms
Friedrich Blase, Global Director in Legal Managed Services at Thomson Reuters, is warning traditional law firms – especially the larger ones – of the potential threat to their existence of alternative legal providers, including the growing range of legal-market ventures and forms of disruptive technology. Blase