I was honoured today to participate in Charon’s 114th Lawcast which you can hear at the Charon QC blawg or download it from there in iTunes format:
Lawcast 114: Gerry Riskin, founder of Edge International – Law practice in these recessionary times
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Pepe & Hazard has had the courage to decide to freeze its rates for existing clients for 2009 and to go public with that information.
Managing Partner Al Turco
Managing Partner, Al Turco, said [Pepe & Hazard] is in the process of formulating a 2009 budget to manage its own revenues and
"[Law] Firms in financial ‘intensive care’ told to merge, divest or restructure as cash dwindles from accounts"
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The image above is the core of the post of internet phenom, Rajesh Setty, in his post today at Life Beyond Code: Optimists and Pessimists – The big difference is..
Couple that with the wisdom of lawyer and legal profession provocateur, Patrick Lamb, in his post today: Silver Lining in Black Economic Cloud? in which
Managing Partners, you may have a disaster plan for fire, perhaps for terrorism – do you have one for the economic train coming off the tracks?
Listen (and watch) what Greenspan said yesterday Sept 14th (50 seconds)
Punchline: You are getting fair warning – are you acting on it? This is not a time
Stephanie West Allen breaks a story that we will look back on in ten years as groundbreaking. Have a look (click on the image for Stephanie’s post):
PUNCHLINE: I can relate having lived in a virtual world for many years. Lawyers in most firms seem to resist the virtual world in favour of the comfort
Confidence, Kanter, “Losing Streak”, “Winning Streak”, Recession, “Managing Partners”
Continue Reading Don’t let your “winning streak” become a “losing streak”
The worst market crisis in 60 years: "recession or worse"? Says who? The 80th richest man in the world, George Soros, (estimated net worth of 8.5 Billion according to Forbes). Is Mr. Soros toying with the "D" word: "Depression" when he says "recession or worse"?
I recommend that you read the entire Financial Times
The New York Times Business section included an article yesterday called: For Lawyers, Perks to Fit a Lifestyle.
The article alluded to a variety of perks including money, candied apples, milkshakes, car discounts, valet services, wine, office parties, in-office gourmet meals on silver platters, nap rooms, child care, emergency nanny services, sabbaticals and even
Recipe for disaster: secrecy, unfair competition, deteriorating culture and even a partnership agreement that did not foresee that it was too generous to departing partners if more than a handful left at a time…
Joanna Pachner of Canada’s highly respected publication, Financial Post Business, writes in detail today about how and why the highly respected
