Insights

The Insights series draws upon our collective consulting experience to address topics that we consider of current interest to the senior management of law firms.

Improving Profitability From Client And Matter Analysis

Almost uniformly law firms highlight the most demanding and complex (and high fee generating) work they undertake.

Compensation For Leadership

In our recent work with firms we have reached the following conclusions (among others) about compensation.

Unquestionably there are successful law firm mergers, some hugely so – perhaps most notably the strategically sound international ones that have created the grouping of highly profitable leading global firms that are increasingly winning a larger share of the highest value work.

Time For Law Firms To Learn From Millennials

Differences between generations are an age-old problem, and certainly one that law firms have struggled with for decades.

Managing Shrinkage

When we think about the forces reshaping the legal industry, we focus primarily on forces such as the impact of changing client demand trends and innovation in legal service delivery.

Partner Compensation: Process Can Be As Important As Results

Compensation takes on an outsized meaning in law firms, in part because it is often the only meaningful feedback that equity partners receive from the firm about their performance and status in the firm.