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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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Posted In: Culture & Diversity, Talent Strategy

Rangers Lead the Way

A common lament we hear as we talk to law firm leaders is the lack of motivation and leadership displayed by so many

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Posted In: Talent Strategy

Engaging & Listening to the Voice of Your Firm’s Future Leaders

I recently celebrated a huge milestone for my family: My daughter’s first birthday. In a year that flew by at the speed of

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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: Culture & Diversity, Strategic Planning

Change the Language, Change the Outcome?

It has often been said, “Words have meaning.” The legal profession, more than any other, prides itself on its command of language. Every

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Posted In: Strategic Planning, Talent Strategy

The Law Firm of the Future: Demographic Changes Ahead

While updating my research on trends in the Canadian legal market I recently came across an interesting article that advanced my thinking about

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