Leadership

Who Makes More? Partners or General Counsels?

At some point in our lives, we would all give a pound of flesh just to make partner, but the reality is that many partners…

Michael Allen April 20, 2015

Of Brand-Babies and Brand-Parents: Conceiving and Raising Brands

Lately—well, in the last 20 years or so—we’ve noticed many of the brands we’ve created go astray. All the money, time and effort spent in…

Burkey Belser April 16, 2015

Leading Lawyers: Your Most Potent Tool is your Mindset

Are you a practicing lawyer who is transitioning into a leadership role? Whether it’s as a managing partner, practice group leader, office managing partner, or…

Dr. Larry Richard April 15, 2015

The Unique Challenges of Leading a National Firm While Maintaining an Individual Practice

Newspapers have been trumpeting the coming dawn of the cloning age for a couple of decades now. It’s beginning to feel like an empty promise.…

Kimberly Johnson April 13, 2015

Asia Pacific Legal Executive Briefing: The Evolving Interaction of Indigenous and Foreign Firms

HONG KONG—Thomson Reuters’ Legal Executive Institute conducted its 5th Annual Asia Pacific Legal Executive Briefing last week in Hong Kong. More than 70 law firm…

Ralph Baxter March 17, 2015

Ways to Avoid Generational Communication Disconnects

It’s obvious we have been witnessing fundamental changes in communication media and styles, accelerating markedly in the last 10 to 15 years. Technology and the…

Phyllis Weiss Haserot March 11, 2015

Looking at the Law Firm Partnership Model & How to Fix It

Georgetown Law Professor Jonathan T. Molot has written a thought-provoking article in the latest edition of the Southern California Law Review: “What’s Wrong with Law…

Ralph Baxter February 24, 2015

Law Firm Ownership: the Great Canadian Debate of 2015

In 2015, all the noise in Canada is about alternative business structures (ABS). Last year, the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) released its Futures report, which…

Gail J. Cohen February 19, 2015

Law Firm Careers: New Jobs, New Criteria, New Measurement

The core of any law firm is its people. That has been so since law firms were first formed. It will always be so. What…

Ralph Baxter February 10, 2015

The Delicate Relationship between Firm Leader and COO

The team of a Firm Leader and a Chief Operating Officer (COO) is two people who have been forced to work together—rather than having chosen…

Patrick J. McKenna February 05, 2015

Law Firm Leaders Will Face Challenge of Moving Firms into Shifting Future

This week, I want to share some suggestions on law firm leadership. I do so because I believe leadership, or the absence of it, will…

Ralph Baxter February 03, 2015

Law Firm Profitability: It’s All in How You Count It

As many are probably aware, Congress has, for some time, been tinkering with the idea of tweaking the tax code to change the way law…

Bill Josten January 26, 2015