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Posted In: Legal Process Improvement, Legal Project Management, Strategic Planning, Talent Strategy

Wait … Who Gets to Define Value? Understanding the Need for Efficiency

My colleague, Jessa Baker, and I have discussed promoting a culture of efficiency in our last few blogs.  In Jessa’s most recent blog,

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Posted In: Culture & Diversity, Practice Group Management, Strategic Planning

Overcoming Strategic Inertia

Over many years of working in the legal industry, I have often been struck by the stark differences between firms that seem to

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Posted In: Culture & Diversity, Legal Process Improvement, Strategic Planning, Talent Strategy

Promoting a Culture of Efficiency via Law Firm Talent Strategy

In her most recent LawVision Insights blog, Carla Landry addressed the excellent question of whether “Being efficient means your work becomes a commodity.” 

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Posted In: Culture & Diversity, Practice Group Management, Strategic Planning

Succession Planning – Breaking Through the Force of Inertia

I led a webinar on succession planning around key client relationships last week.  The key themes from my presentation were focused on the

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Posted In: Legal Process Improvement, Strategic Planning, Talent Strategy

Does Being Efficient Mean Your Work Becomes a Commodity?

Contributing author: Jessa Baker For several months, I have addressed some of the reasons why Legal Process Improvement (LPI) has been slow to

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

Coming to Grips with “Average” – The Strategic Challenge for (Most) Law Firms

Over the weekend I had the good fortune of attending college orientation with my youngest son, who is entering one of the premier

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Posted In: Culture & Diversity, Talent Strategy

Maintaining Morale at High Functioning Law Firms: The Five C’s

I celebrate my wedding anniversary this month, and recently recalled words of wisdom passed along by my pastor on our wedding day.  In

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Posted In: Legal Process Improvement, Strategic Planning

Why Are So Few Lawyers Willing to Assess How They’re Delivering Legal Services? It Might Just Be Who They Are

A few months ago I discussed which should come first between Legal Process Improvement (LPI) and Legal Project Management (LPM) in the attached

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Posted In: Practice Group Management, Strategic Planning

The Surprising State of Law Firm Strategies

As we dig deeper into the results from our recently published Partner Compensation System Survey, we continue to have little “a-ha” and “very

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Posted In: Culture & Diversity, Legal Process Improvement, Legal Project Management, Strategic Planning, Talent Strategy

Law Ain’t what it Used to Be…

Yogi Berra once famously remarked, “The future ain’t what it used to be.”  I couldn’t help but be reminded of that remark yesterday,

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