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Posted In: Business Development, Culture & Diversity, Strategic Planning

Trust Your Gut and Other Unconventional Wisdom for Law Firm Leaders

Two years ago I had the good fortune to experience a transformational moment in my life. At a remote location in the heart

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Posted In: Culture & Diversity, Strategic Planning, Talent Strategy

Another Year, (at Least) Halfway Through…

It’s the end of the third week in July, and at least for us in the Chicago area it seems as though we

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Posted In: Strategic Planning, Talent Strategy

Should You Slash Your Summer Associate Program? Quinn Emanuel Thought So.

Once a reliable pipeline for top rising legal talent, summer associate programs are coming under increasing scrutiny, with powerhouse litigation firm Quinn Emanuel

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Posted In: Culture & Diversity, Strategic Planning, Talent Strategy

Micro-Hiring: An Emerging Trend in Law Firm Selection and What It Means for Your Firm

A new trend is emerging in how corporate clients select and hire law firms. Micro-hiring, or the selection of an individual or small

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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: Compensation & Performance, Culture & Diversity, Strategic Planning

Continuing to Solve the Great “Teamwork Puzzle” v2

Last month, I revisited an earlier series of blogs on the elusive goal of “teamwork” with a focus on why so many firms

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Posted In: Strategic Planning, Talent Strategy

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

Writing for Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute, I recently augmented the findings of Peer Monitor’s 2015 Staffing Ratio Survey by highlighting four scalability

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Posted In: Talent Strategy

A Parallel Universe: 3 Best Practices in Corporate Talent Strategy

Law firms have often been pegged as slow to change, resistant to embrace new ideas and hesitant to adopt new approaches. The intensifying

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Posted In: Compensation & Performance, Culture & Diversity, Strategic Planning, Talent Strategy

Continuing to Solve the Great “Teamwork Puzzle”

In 2013 we focused much of our research time on Partner Compensation Systems, with particular emphasis on incentivizing teamwork – a goal that

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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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