Leadership

Stop Calling Legal Service Professionals “Non-Lawyers”

It is time to stop using the term “non-lawyer” to refer to everyone who works in legal service who has not passed the bar exam.…

Ralph Baxter May 19, 2015

Badass Butterfly Tactics: Boosting Lawyer Engagement with Small, Doable Acts

In 1961, while meteorologist Edward Lorenz was working on a computerized weather simulation program, he took a shortcut by rounding off a number from .506127…

Anne Brafford May 18, 2015

Why Law Firms Need Non-Executive Directors

Until recently and certainly before the failure of Howrey and then Dewey & LeBoeuf, the bankruptcy of a large law firm had been regarded as…

Patrick J. McKenna May 07, 2015

What’s Your GE Capital Practice?

Do you ever actually look hard at your firm’s overall business structure? No, really. Let’s go a step further. Stipulating arguendo that you are one…

Bruce MacEwen May 06, 2015

The ABA Turns Up the Heat on Legal Service Innovation

The American Bar Association (ABA) conducted a National Summit on Innovation in Legal Services this past weekend at the Stanford Law School. It was a…

Ralph Baxter May 05, 2015

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