Leadership Succession: Three Critical Steps
Succession planning appears to be one area where both law firms and corporations are underperforming.
Managing Instability
While some law firms have reported strong financial results over the last several years, others have struggled to the point of instability. For many leaders we speak to, the most startling feature of these recent declines is how rapidly they seem to come about.
Time To Rethink Partnership?
Partnership, or an equivalent, is the predominant form of organization for law firms large and small. It is a structure that made sense when even the largest firms were under 200 lawyers and were primarily single office operations.
Lessons On Governance
Effective management and governance of a firm’s resources represent one of the most critical challenges encountered by law firms at repeated intersections in a firm’s development cycle.
Does Benchmarking Measure Up?
“What are other firms doing?” It’s a question we hear frequently. Lawyers have a strong inclination to look to other firms for sources of legitimacy when it comes to the practice of management.
