Leadership

FORUM MAGAZINE EXCLUSIVE: Keeping a Firm Client-Focused During Changing Times

Forum spoke with Jami Wintz McKeon, chair of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, about what clients want, breaking the glass ceiling and keeping focused while moving…

Thomson Reuters Institute September 03, 2015

The Lawyer Supply and Demand Paradox

“Too Many Law Students, Too Few Legal Jobs,” Steven Harper’s op-ed in the New York Times last week, drew public attention to a serious problem:…

Ralph Baxter September 01, 2015

FORUM MAGAZINE EXCLUSIVE: The Yanks are Coming! The Brits are Coming!

In November 2013, The American Lawyer published a provocative article by its Chief European Correspondent Chris Johnson entitled “How the Magic Circle Lost the Battle for…

Thomson Reuters Institute August 31, 2015

Law Firm Profitability Analysis: Making It Work

As I wrote last week, law firms are increasingly adopting profitability measures, a positive development for the firms, their people, and their clients. In this…

Ralph Baxter August 25, 2015

Knowing What You Don’t Know

I'm often asked what the biggest difference is between in-house and outside counsel from the practicing attorney's point of view. In honesty, I don't have…

Tanya Avila August 19, 2015

Change for Change’s Sake

A lot has been written about the recently released Law Firms in Transition survey from Altman Weil. If you haven’t given it a look yet,…

Bill Josten August 14, 2015

8 Practical Steps to Landing a Seat on a Board of Directors

I’ve wanted to serve on a public board for many years, but the timing was never right. Finally, as I planned to rewire (not retire!),…

Gerri Elliott August 13, 2015

Embracing the Client Experience

Go to a Disney theme park and you will understand the client experience. Disney immerses you in all that is Disney. From the moment you…

Ken Grady August 12, 2015

Legal Disruption? Uhm, It’s Complicated

A few months back, while I was still at Stanford (I’m now at Harvard Law’s CLP), I explored the nature of disruption in Big Law.…

Ron A. Dolin August 09, 2015

Badass Butterfly Tactic #2: Injecting Positive Jolts into Performance Reviews

  Shhhh. Stop and listen closely. Do you hear that? It’s the collective groan of lawyers all over the country as performance review season descends…

Anne Brafford August 06, 2015

The Law Firm of the Future, Part 1 — What is Needed?

What should the law firm of the future look like? With all the change underway, all the unmet needs of the market, and all the…

Ralph Baxter August 05, 2015

Designing the Future Law Firm, Part 1

The Lawyer magazine (UK) asked for my thoughts on the topic, “If you were to build a law firm today, what would it look like?" and they were…

Bruce MacEwen August 03, 2015