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The Practice Group: A Firm Management Tool Or an Anchor?

The popularity of the practice group — an entity within a firm comprised of those who practice a specific area of law or serve a specific industry — is well grounded, in that it opens a number of advantages to managing a practice and better serving clients. But so complex and management sensitive are practice groups that they open, as well, the easy propensity to misuse the practice group concept in a classic case of poor management canceling the value of a good concept.

8 minute read June 28, 2007 at 03:47 PM
By
Bruce W. Marcus
The Practice Group: A Firm Management Tool Or an Anchor?

The popularity of the practice group ' an entity within a firm comprised of those who practice a specific area of law or serve a specific industry ' is well grounded, in that it opens a number of advantages to managing a practice and better serving clients.

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