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Client Relationship Transition Guide

The legal industry is clearly in the midst of a dramatic demographic shift that mirrors the changes in the overall US workforce.  The

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Finding Success in the Space: Why Lower Utilization Could Be a Turning Point for Law Firms

For decades, law firms have relied on a combination of financial and operational metrics as proxies for profitability. Realization rates, utilization and leverage

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“Rational” Performance Reviews and a High Performance Culture: Observations on the K&L Gates Partner Departures

In recent weeks much attention has been focused on the 90 partners who left K&L Gates in the last seven months. As the

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The Value of Values

I was recently driving through a small town in rural Virginia where I passed an idyllic little white church that belongs on a

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Posted In: Assessments, Business Development, Strategic Planning, Talent Strategy

Law Firm Business Development: Marketing Audits vs Go-To-Market Assessments

It’s interesting how things come in waves in this industry. For a period, we were swamped with client feedback requests, then it was

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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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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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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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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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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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