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Posted In: Assessments, Culture & Diversity, Strategic Planning

Myopia, Innovation and Evolution: The Role of CI and Think Tanks in Tomorrow’s Law Firm

The term navel-gazing is one that surfaces frequently as law firm leaders speak (at times with nostalgia) about the days of yore. For

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Posted In: Assessments, Talent Strategy

Small Firm vs. Large Firm Associate Satisfaction: Is There a Difference?

Midlevel associates at large law firms are happier than they have been in more than a decade,  according to American Lawyer’s recent Midlevel

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Finding Success in the Space: Why Lower Utilization Could Be a Turning Point for Law Firms

For decades, law firms have relied on a combination of financial and operational metrics as proxies for profitability. Realization rates, utilization and leverage

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Posted In: Assessments, Business Development, Strategic Planning, Talent Strategy

Law Firm Business Development: Marketing Audits vs Go-To-Market Assessments

It’s interesting how things come in waves in this industry. For a period, we were swamped with client feedback requests, then it was

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Posted In: Assessments, Culture & Diversity, Strategic Planning

Musings on Strategy and Chambers Bay

Over the past week, the attentions of all in the golf world were focused on the spectacle of the US Open at Chambers

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Posted In: Assessments, Culture & Diversity, Strategic Planning

Strategy or Luck – and Does It Matter in the Long-Run

In recent weeks, we have been researching and discussing the growth trajectories of 25 law firms whose increases in revenue and profits per

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Posted In: Assessments, Strategic Planning

Is Your Firm Among the 13%? Characteristics of the “Superfast” Firms vs the “Superrich”

The November 2014 issue of The American Lawyer headlined with an engrossing article by Aric Press entitled “BigLaw’s Reality Check.” In addition to

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Posted In: Assessments, Business Development, Strategic Planning

Trendspotting Risks and Rewards: Taking the Leap into Innovation

Just a month after touting Amazon’s diaper launch in the first of my Trendspotting blog series, Amazon pulled their new line from the

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Posted In: Assessments, Strategic Planning

Performance is Everything…

My experiences in a number of recent client meetings have remind me of an exchange in the great movie Apollo 13, where Flight

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Posted In: Assessments, Strategic Planning

Trendspotting Part II: Macro-Trends and Changing Client Preferences

One month into another new year, partners are turning their attention (perhaps belatedly) to their plans for 2015. Energy is at an all-time

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