Catalyst studies show an associate’s departure costs a [Canadian] firm about $315,000 in recruiting, training, salaries, overhead, severance, outplacement and other costs – not including hiring a replacement. The stress of juggling work and family usually falls more heavily on female lawyers… So what can law firms do to be more flexible in the face
Can you define and differentiate among these terms:
Intellectual Capital? Human Capital ? Relationship Capital? Reputational Capital? Economic Capital? Structural Capital
The immediate reaction may be “those things are too subjective to be valued” or “even if they could be valued, that value would be diminimous.” But anyone who has been involved in evaluations and
The addicts referred to are identified in the title of a Reuter’s story today: Workaholics struggle to say ‘No’ to work Does this sound familiar:
WA [Workaholics Anonymous] identifies workaholics as people who often are perfectionists and worriers, derive their self esteem from work, keep overly busy, neglect their health, postpone vacations and overschedule their
Robert J. Ambrogi Thank you to Robert Ambrogi’s for his post ‘Happiness index’ puts lawyers at bottom which is a grim reminder of the under-appreciation of lawyers and the legal profession and the consequential dissatisfaction of lawyers (as well as many clients, I am afraid). MY OPINION: Many lawyers are under-appreciated because they are focussed
Seth Godin provokes our thoughts with a very quick intellectual journey through service to expectations. In his post, What customer surveys measure, he teaches us not that serving and satisfying is impossible but that it is possible to do the former extremely well without doing the latter. TRANSLATION FOR LAWYERS: Excellent legal work is
Anthony Cerminaro OK – I don’t want to overdo this “fun and happiness theme” but there’s lawyer Anthony Cerminaro blogging about Happiness Breeding Success. Read his post it captures the gems from the article he referred to in Live Science by the same name. The other quote I liked was:
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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:
Managing Partners start thinking of ways to harness this little philosophical gem in your firm:
Fun is not a distraction from work or a drain on our revenue; it is the very source of both our inspiration and our value. A genuine sense of play ignites our creativity, eases communication, promotes goodwill and engenders
Follow me on a journey of logic skip a decade to 2015 when air travel may dramatically increase in speed to 30,000 km per hour or 18,000 miles per hour imagine a trip from Moscow to New York in 50 minutes or Moscow to Sydney in one hour and six minutes. (See reference
Do the economic rewards from doing business in China compensate for the risks? Read today’s account of Law firm in trouble for illegal acts By Zheng Yi (China Daily). Read it carefully. How can western-based law firms quantify their risk of falling into disfavor in the same fashion as the Chinese firms referred to in
