Practice Management

Efficiency Tips for Lawyers: How to Pre-Program Email and Standardize Forms

Karen L. Clark has been a legal secretary for more than 26 years, creating efficiency within her own and others’ workspaces. She shared some of…

Karen L. Clark November 06, 2015

The Cost of Compliance 2015: Staying Alert in the Face of Regulatory Fatigue

As the financial industry makes its way out of one of the most tumultuous periods in its history, there have been some hard lessons learned…

Stacey English November 04, 2015

Q&A Interview: Firms Need to Rapidly Embrace Younger & More Mobile Workforce, Says Rowe’s Thompson

The rise of the Millennial generation within the workforce and the continual evolution of new work-saving technology has greatly challenged the traditional concepts of the…

Thomson Reuters Institute November 02, 2015

FORUM MAGAZINE EXCLUSIVE: Law Firm Succession Planning — Minimizing the Risk in Leadership Transitions

Often a generational shift in a law firm’s center of power gives rise to an acceptance/realization by most partners that the firm needs to change…

John M. Westcott, Jr. October 27, 2015

Back to the Future: Returning to Law Firm Partner Meetings in a New Role

For nearly a quarter of a century I led the partner meetings of one firm. My role was to help our partners understand the world…

Ralph Baxter October 20, 2015

FORUM MAGAZINE EXCLUSIVE: For Baker Botts, Data-Sharing with Partners Keeps Focus on Profitability

Baker Botts, like many large law firms, for a very long period of time has collected its profitability data, analyzing where the firm was making…

Thomson Reuters Institute October 20, 2015

The Unkindest Cut: Why Efficiency May Be Better than the Knife in Improving Profitability

I recently had the opportunity to co-present a webinar with Jack Bostelman, President of KMJD Consulting. The initial concept behind the webinar, entitled Tracking and…

Bill Josten October 16, 2015

7 Actions to Achieve a More Profitable Multi-Generational Workforce

Currently overall about 70% of leaders and managers are male — mostly Baby Boomers and the older half of Gen X. The agitating about Millennials…

Phyllis Weiss Haserot October 15, 2015

Law Firm Leaders Forum 2015: Clients, Collaboration & Living in a VUCA World

NEW YORK — Collaboration isn’t just the latest buzzword being thrown around by legal consultants and academics — it’s becoming an absolute necessity to clients…

Gregg Wirth October 09, 2015

Efficiency Tips for Lawyers: How to Pre-Program and Customize your Computer

Karen L. Clark has been a legal secretary for more than 26 years, creating efficiency within her own and others’ workspaces. She shared some of…

Karen L. Clark October 02, 2015

When Leaders Need to Help Underperformers

As Dr. Larry Richard stated in his recent blog post, law firm leaders are ever more concerned about their partners failing to meet expectations, often…

Patrick J. McKenna October 01, 2015

The 8 Habits of Highly Profitable Law Firms

Everyone loves profits. Everyone loves to talk about profits per partner. We will restrain ourselves and not talk about the value of profits per partner…

BTI Consulting September 17, 2015