Practice Management

The State of Legal Pricing: Whither Rational Pricing?

This article was co-authored by Toby Brown, Chief Practice Management Officer at Perkins Coie, and Jill Nelson, Senior Director of Product and Business Management at OnePlace…

Legal Executive Institute October 22, 2019

Securing Your Practice’s Future: Meaningful Management of Client Relationships

Are you treating your client relationships as a strategic good to be thoughtfully managed? In simplest terms, it’s probably unlikely — but don’t feel bad,…

Mark Haddad October 21, 2019

The Rise of Enterprise Project Management

Projects fail for many reasons. Over the last decade many firms have created an internal project management office (PMO) to try to stem such failure.…

Don Philmlee October 15, 2019

Drinker Biddle Case Study: Weaving Emotional Intelligence into Business Development, Client Service & Attorney Well-being

Drinker Biddle & Reath, a national law firm with 600 lawyers, identified emotional intelligence (EI), which involves the human side of lawyering, as a key…

Natalie Runyon October 14, 2019

Supercharging Your Firm’s Culture: From Stressed to Resilient

Have you ever noticed how some lawyers are unflappable while others broadcast stress? We’d all like to be or work with the former — not…

Anne E. Collier, JD October 10, 2019

New Podcast: Law Firm Leaders Empowered to Drive Change But Face Obstacles, Forthcoming Report Finds

Despite feeling largely empowered to drive change within their law firms, more than 60% of law firm leaders surveyed say that while leadership at their…

Bill Josten October 09, 2019

Luminating Latina Lawyers: Meet Paulina Vera, a Contributor to our New Quarterly Series

The Legal Executive Institute Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color is proud to announce the launch of the Luminating Latina Lawyers (LLL) quarterly content…

Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color October 09, 2019

Upfront & Personal: Speaking with Bjarne P. Tellmann, General Counsel & Chief Legal Officer of Pearson PLC

We continue our monthly feature, “Upfront & Personal”, a column created by Rose Ors that brings “the person behind the title” to the forefront in interviews with…

Rose D. Ors October 07, 2019

New Podcast: Stinson’s Ann Jenrette-Thomas Discusses New White Paper on How Lawyers of Color Can Better Cultivate Business

Recently, the Legal Executive Institute’s Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color initiative released its second white paper, titled 5 Marketing Strategies for Attorneys of…

Legal Executive Institute October 03, 2019

The Process of Pricing: What Legal Lean Sigma® Can Show Us

I wrote previously about how important it is for law firms to understand their own economics in order to get a better grasp of their…

Frederick J. Esposito, Jr., MBA, CLM October 02, 2019

Practice Group Dynamics: Setting Your Practice Groups Up for Success

We begin a new column, "Practice Group Dynamics" by Susan Lambreth, who has 25 years experience as a consultant to the legal profession, especially in…

Susan Lambreth September 30, 2019

Using the Genius Move: A 3-Step Process for Building a Mindset of Innovation in Law

There's a reason so many attorneys and legal executives struggle to stay innovative. The modern practice of law involves relentless stress, complex bureaucracy, extreme time…

Nate Klemp September 26, 2019