News & Events
News & Events
Compensating Retiring Partners
ALA National Conference, Toronto, May 2014
Trends, Segmentation & Winning Strategies
UK Legal Market Review
London
Firms Urged To Go Beyond Pep And Adopt Quality And Risk Performance Measures
Giles Rubens quoted Legal Futures Large law firms need to embrace new ways to measure firm and partner performance as traditional methods – such as profits per equity partner – “can be irrelevant, encourage inappropriate behaviours, discourage innovation and tend...
Time for New Metrics
Georgetown University Law School Washington, DC, February 2014 Georgetown University Law School Washington, DC, February 2014 Fairfax Associates Fairfax Associates brings together the skills of highly experienced professional services consultants with...
Lateral Hiring, Mergers & Acquisitions
ALA Conference, Irvine, CA, November 2013
Partner Performance & Remuneration
Effective Approaches in a Changing Market
London
Trends in the Legal Industry
ALA Conference, Albuquerque,NM, October 2013
Managing Partner Forum
Meritas, Dallas, TX, September 2013
Uncertainty Looms Over Boies Schiller After Dunn and Isaacson’s Exit
Kristin Stark is quoted “When firms are larger and have more lease obligations and they lose partners across a swath of their geography, that’s very challenging,” Stark said.
As BigLaw Explores New Pay Systems, Some Carry More Risk
Lisa Smith is quoted: Most often, firms are somewhere between black box and totally transparent, and many are finding what they view as a happy medium on that spectrum, according to Lisa Smith, a law firm strategy and management consultant at Fairfax Associates.
Legal Professionals Want to Keep Working From Home, but Will That Last?
Lisa Smith is quoted “I think people miss it more than they expected,” she said.
As Workforce Scatters, Onus Falls on Practice Group Leaders to Keep Firm Culture Intact
Kristin Stark is quoted discussing how practice heads are serving as “mini-managing partners” as law firms fight to maintain business continuity and ensure cohesion during the COVID-19 pandemic.