BRUCE MARCUS See Bruce’s new article, How to Recruit in a Competitive World, at LAW.COM. Here’s a taste:
Recruiting advertising is like any other, in that telling people what you want won’t work. Offering people what they want, and how you’re going to give it to them, works.
Bruce goes on to give actual
Referencing the announcement that Sullivan & Cromwell will raise starting salaries for newly minted attorneys by $20,000, to $145,000 (plus bonus), Wall Street Journal writer Cameron Stracher writes a provocative article called Cut My Salary, Please! (on line subscription required). Cameron Stracher, author of “Double Billing: A Young Lawyer’s Tale of Greed, Sex, Lies, and
Bruce Allen adds some essential thoughts about mentoring in his recent post, Mentoring Works…. In its Own Way His first bullet point is:
The mentoring relationship IS a relationship. It requires a chemistry between two individuals not found in a spread sheet or personality profile. Not every senior attorney in your firm will be selected
Are you incredulous? Do you think I am making this up? Richard Dearden, media manager of Irwin Mitchell (Top 10 UK firm) sent an internal email which included this:
We’ve trawled the intranet and pulled together our most photogenic people for potential models. We don’t have the schedule agreed yet, but if you are around
(This graphic has little to do with my post but is as tasteless as anything I could find.) Imagine the Human Resources Manager of Cameron McKenna (London-based global firm) revealing this publicly about a member of its staff (albeit internally and only to trainees). To be clear, the email included the employee’s real name.
Recently,
The introduction of Female Mentoring at Freshfields (London-based global firm) is to be congratulated and condemned at the same time – perhaps King Solomom would have a different take on this but here is mine. I applaud: – the motives (diversity – attracting and keeping more women in a firm that lacks the degree of
RollOnFriday is making fun of London based law firm CMS Cameron McKenna but do they deserve it – you be the judge. CMS Cameron McKenna is no slouch. According to their web site, they:
* are the primary counsel to 20 of the FTSE 350 * acted for 107 of the FTSE 350 in 2004-5
My colleague Ed Wesemann has a very interesting piece on using retooling as an option to terminating the underproductive partner. He notes that the termination option is often used because: “they simply don’t have the confidence that any other option will work”. In this post, Ed covers: Selecting Partners for Retooling The Retooling Process (Five
I am generally critical about how law firms are managed, although always out of a sense of affection and respect for my profession. Even I was shocked by what I read about the management in Dorsey & Whitney’s London office:
But old-fashioned bad management is apparently playing its part too: one partner issued an email
The legal profession is extremely fragmanted. There is no IBM, Ford or even Price Waterhouse Coopers in the legal profession – the mega law firms are tiny. I believe that explains why there has been so little R&D and innovation in the profession. That may be changing. According to Bruce Macewen’s Adam Smith Esq. post
