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

What’s Wrong With This Process? Why Are So Few Lawyers Willing to Assess How They’re Delivering Legal Services?

Last month I wrote that lawyers still hadn’t decided which should come first between legal project management (LPM) and legal process improvement (LPI). 

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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: Strategic Planning

Advice for Law Firms in Serious Trouble

Law firms are fragile organizations that are held together by the will of the Partners to keep showing up for work each day. 

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Posted In: Strategic Planning

Rites of Spring… Cleanup and Rejuvenation

Spring is here.  The first quarter is over.  And while we haven’t yet seen first quarter numbers it’s clear that they will reflect

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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: Compensation & Performance, Practice Group Management, Strategic Planning

Solving the Great Partner Compensation Puzzle – Promoting Teamwork (Part 4)

In my last three blogs I have been focused on the ability to solve the “teamwork puzzle” in a law firm and the

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Posted In: Culture & Diversity, Strategic Planning

Why Can’t We Do Both?

Four hours into a recent, heated session with the Strategy Committee of a thoughtful mid-size firm, I was pointedly reminded of the primary

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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: Compensation & Performance, Practice Group Management, Strategic Planning

Solving the Great Partner Compensation Puzzle – Promoting Teamwork (Part 3)

In my last two blogs I have been focused on the ability to solve the “teamwork puzzle” in a law firm and the

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Posted In: Legal Project Management, Strategic Planning

Is Legal Project Management Just One of Many Starting Points to Creating Effective Teams?

Last month, I opined that legal project management (“LPM”) is a potential solution to creating effective teams.  Today, I’m adding (or perhaps clarifying)

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