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.
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
Appreciation is not assumed — it has to be communicated… if you think your clients know you appreciate them, ask your self "how would they"… Make it explicit and you’ll separate yourself from the masses !
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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
Keynote Presentation in Chicago May 27, 28 at the Get a Life conference for lawyers.
…also Strategic Planning Session to close the conference
I was honoured to be included in the round table that culminated in the cover story of Law Pro
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I am in good company. The roundtable included:
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PUNCHLINE: (yes, I’ll start with it) Managing Partners: I don’t think you should downsize now unless you absolutely have to. It’s a rough world out there – you should have cut the underperformers a long time ago. BUT, if you HAVE TO, if you MUST, then learn from one of the most successful and business savvy people out there, Guy Kawasaki – read
Many of my law firm clients tell me that one of their biggest "people" problems is that some people just don’t work well with others – why? because they don’t always get along.
Enter a brilliant post by Marelisa Fabrega (lawyer/blogger/woman-extraordinaire) called 30 Tips for Getting Along With Others
You might want to get Marelisa’s
Law Professor William D. Henderson (click on photo for bio)
Managing Partners and law firm H.R. Executives should contemplate the meaning of Indiana University School of Law’s Prof. Bill Henderson’s post: "How the ‘Cravath System’ Created the Bi-Modal Distribution."
Professor Henderson builds on the work of NALP (The National Association for Law
