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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: 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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By the Numbers: Does Your Law Firm Measure Up to a “Gold” Standard?

I like metrics.  Perhaps that’s why I find the recently released Women in Law Empowerment Forum’s  2013 Gold Standard Certification especially interesting and

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Redefining “Nice” at Law Firms: The Interplay between Culture and Tenured Partner Underperformance

During our most recent LawVision Managing Partner Roundtable, a topic of common concern resurfaced, albeit this time with a slightly different spin.  Although

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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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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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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: Strategic Planning, Talent Strategy

Law Firm Talent Strategy: 20 Questions Law Firm Leaders Need to Ask in 2013

When I ask law firm leaders about their talent strategy, I often get the response, “You mean our recruiting?” or “You mean our

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

New Year’s Resolutions for Managing Partners

It’s January, and we’ve turned the corner on another year in the business of law.  We are another year into the “new normal”

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The Business of Law: How Innovative Law Firms – Use Talent Strategy to Achieve Strategic Goals

I recently attended a Kellogg School of Management Alumni event entitled “The Age at Which People Achieve Great Things” where Ben Jones, Associate

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