Talent Development

Where Do You Spend Your Leadership Time?

Today, if you are like many law firm leaders, you are caught in a tidal wave of 24/7 communications from your partners and direct reports…

Patrick J. McKenna June 18, 2015

Four Scalability Trends Impacting Law Firm Staffing Ratios:  How Do You Compare?

Adjust. Adapt. Repeat. This has been the mantra of many corporate staffing models that scale talent to meet industry innovations and technological advancements. Why should…

Jessa M. Baker June 08, 2015

De-Listing: Breaking Down the Top Law Firm Lists

With the annual publication of the AmLaw 100 and Second Hundred, it’s rankings season for BigLaw. Think of it as our little industry’s equivalent of…

Bruce MacEwen June 01, 2015

Compensation and Feedback Convey Critical Messages to Lawyers

Many law firms spend a lot of time and energy focusing on the form of their compensation system and on the fairness with which they…

John M. Westcott, Jr. May 21, 2015

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

Making Your Law Firm a Great Place to Work

The Great Place to Work Institute publishes an annual list of the “100 Best Places to Work”. This year, 20 of the companies on the…

Dr. Larry Richard May 13, 2015

Transforming Women’s Leadership in the Law

The content on the Transforming Women’s Leadership in the Law page will highlight organizations’ successes in removing barriers to the advancement women and spotlight some of the…

Charlotte Rushton May 09, 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

Q&A Interview: Survey Finds Firms Using More Benchmarks in Lawyer Evaluations, Says NALP’s Patterson

The NALP Foundation for Law Career Research and Education released a new report on lawyer performance evaluations. The report, entitled How Lawyer Evaluations Measure Up,…

Tammy A. Patterson March 19, 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

The Most Effective Leaders Pay Attention to Relationships

Over the years, it has been my observation that the very best leaders, be they managing partners or practice group heads, do more than just…

Patrick J. McKenna March 05, 2015