showimage.aspx.jpg Peter Cornell, Managing Partner, Clifford Chance I admire 53 year old outgoing Clifford Chance Managing Partner Peter Cornell for his integrity and self awareness in saying that “his skills as a lawyer were too rusty for him to return to practice” according to an article in today’s New York Law Journal by Anthony Lin titled:

Fleiser_Mandi 1.jpg Mandi Fleiser If esprit de corps in your office is so fantastic that you are looking for ways to suppress it, then skip this post. However if you want to see a brilliant, simple and time efficient way of enhancing it, then treat this as a mini case study. (Esprit de corps is “a feeling

Frothy frappé. Wholesome yogurt and granola parfait. Positively gourmet eggplant, red pepper and ricotta on herbed focaccia. Where? inside one of New Jersey’s largest law firms, Lowenstein Sandler. images-9.jpg Fastforward: Maybe we complicate things too much… who would of thought that motivation was so simply Pavlovian.

“Food is an enjoyable part of the day,” said Michael

The techniques managers use to get through a tough agenda in a business context are completely useless in a deposition. To survive the deposition, managers are trained to avoid the tactics they would have used in a business situation. Those who lead law firms are often experiencing more of a deposition environment than a business

Is Diversity on your management agenda? Has it ever been?

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This is a serious wake up call to every single member of your law firm’s management team.

Diversity is not some do-good-philanthropic-topic for a tea party of the rich and bored. Diversity is serious business: serious to business; serious for business… not to mention that