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Posted In: Culture & Diversity, Talent Strategy

By the Numbers: Does Your Law Firm Measure Up to a “Gold” Standard?

I like metrics.  Perhaps that’s why I find the recently released Women in Law Empowerment Forum’s  2013 Gold Standard Certification especially interesting and

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Posted In: Culture & Diversity, Talent Strategy

Redefining “Nice” at Law Firms: The Interplay between Culture and Tenured Partner Underperformance

During our most recent LawVision Managing Partner Roundtable, a topic of common concern resurfaced, albeit this time with a slightly different spin.  Although

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Posted In: Business Development

Coach Lawyers to Develop Business by Using Their Strengths

A recent post by my colleague Bruce Alltop addressed the ability of introverts to develop business.  The following are a few charts based

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Posted In: Business Development

Law Firm Business Development: Extroverts Beware

One of the more common themes that comes up during my initial coaching session with new coachees is that they feel that they

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Posted In: Talent Strategy

The $200,000 Mistake Law Firm Leaders Can’t Afford to Make

If preventable errors lead to $200,000 worth of technology equipment disappearing from a law firm, dire consequences would ensue.  At a bare minimum,

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Posted In: Business Development

Ready, Fire, Aim: How to Build an Effective Business Development Plan

A famous architect once designed a home. Upon completion of the project the builder pointed out to the architect that no provision had

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Posted In: Talent Strategy

Fortune 100 General Counsel Recommended Reading: Examining the Relationship between Leverage and Lawyer Satisfaction

When the General Counsel of a Fortune 100 company recommends a book to me, I listen.  Accordingly, when DuPont General Counsel Tom Sager

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Posted In: Business Development

Law Firm CMO/CBDOs: Staying On Course

I was thinking of you Chief Marketing and Chief Business Development Officers out there as I was reading an aviation magazine recently to

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Posted In: Talent Strategy

Law Firm Hiring Models: No Longer “Par for the Course”

Every year about this time I experience the same hallucination –  By the time the cold Chicago weather breaks, I’ll be a good

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Posted In: Business Development

Overcoming Business Development Procrastination

I often ask groups of lawyers to brainstorm with me to list obstacles they experience when attempting business development activities. I want to

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