Ahhhh yes… seduction!
Many great firms that I serve have a common enemy ”complacency” which Is indeed the result of decades of success. Managing Partners complain that they are unable to get their partners to pay attention to their future.
Read Jim Hassett’s blogpost, Have lawyers been seduced by success? In his fantastic blog: Legal
This is a San Francisco Chronicle article in which Chronicle Staff Writer Heidi Benson begins:
“Mary Mocine, a 63-year-old Zen priest and former litigator, teaches meditation to burned-out attorneys at weekend retreats at Tassajara in Big Sur and Green Gulch Farm at Muir Beach.”
Litigators may be comforted by this: "You can still
"New Lawyer Jobs
90 percent of 2006 law school graduates found jobs by February, 2007. That’s the largest percentage since 2000 and way up from the 85% rate ten years ago. Of the 36,465 graduates who have jobs, 56% were in private practice and 10% were judicial clerks. Of the remainder, 14% went into a
*According to the largest-ever research program in the UK legal profession, it appears that as the Beatles sang “money can’t buy you love”
I am not certain that the numbers would be different elsewhere in the world but at least are informed by recent and credible statistics.
The Lawyer.com article: Twenty four per cent of
The Complete Lawyer tag line is: Tools and insights on professional development and quality of life and career issues that impact every lawyer’s success and satisfaction.
Is this a resource that may be helpful to some of your lawyers (if not all)?
Thank you to friend and Complete Lawyer contributor Stephanie West Allen (of Idealawg
According to The Wall Street Journal, "Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, on Friday said that 45 partners have been asked to leave or accept other positions there as part of a restructuring".
According to thier own web site, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP is among the largest law practices in the world, with
The Secret Step: Asking the delegatee for ideas regarding the assigned task.
Four reasons why your delegatee may have an unanticipated but valuable contribution to make
1) Your delegatee may have performed a similar task in the past for someone who knew something different (and valuable)
2) Your delegatee may be just creative enough
Ernie the Attorney (Ernie Svenson) and The Adventure of Strategy (Robert Millard) both came at the same issue today but in entirely different ways. Unbeknownst to each other, they posted on a common theme: lawyers leaving their law firms.
Ernie referred to Denise Howell of the Bag and Baggage blog: "So, now Denise is taking
Seth Godin’s blog post on Receptionists is 100% correct. When I was a managing partner, my firm required a receptionist for our largest office. I personally reviewed 215 applications myself and created my "A list", about 42 applicants, whom I invited for interviews late one afternoon. I asked 6 of my partners to help
My post earlier today, The Wall Street Journal Blasts Law Firm Salaries Arms Race plus the comments of Larry E. Ribstein in his Ideoblog post “Why are law firm associates paid so much?” seem to have inspired a nice piece of analysis by Bruce MacEwen in his resulting post, Associate Salaries: The Great Debate.
