Call 855-808-4530 or email [email protected] to receive your discount on a new subscription.
This article is the first in a series about developing a customized scorecard for your firm's partners, specific information to include in the scorecard, tailoring it to your firm's goals, and getting partners to understand the scorecard and achieve greater success. Following are some questions about partner behavior and profitability with which many law firms grapple: How do you want your partners to behave? Is their work ethic up to your standards? How do you modify behavior? What firm goals that will drive profitability? What are the key financial metrics against which goals are compared? What training do partners need to understand the financials goals and metrics? What data does your firm track by partner? How are partners held accountable for profitability performance? Developing a partner scorecard customized to your firm's style may help address these issues and improve overall performance.
What Is a Partner Scorecard?
A partner scorecard is exactly what it sounds like. It is a card that keeps score on various elements of performance for a partner. The types of scores that would be kept will be discussed at a later point. An important element of a scorecard system is to make the scorecard a concise, tangible card, bigger than an index card or a piece of paper. The reason for this is simplicity. The score can be viewed and understood in a flash. Picture a golf game scorecard. It is on one page, simple, and easy to understand. You know your score. And you remember it.
ENJOY UNLIMITED ACCESS TO THE SINGLE SOURCE OF OBJECTIVE LEGAL ANALYSIS, PRACTICAL INSIGHTS, AND NEWS IN ENTERTAINMENT LAW.
Already a have an account? Sign In Now Log In Now
For enterprise-wide or corporate acess, please contact Customer Service at [email protected] or 877-256-2473
This article highlights how copyright law in the United Kingdom differs from U.S. copyright law, and points out differences that may be crucial to entertainment and media businesses familiar with U.S law that are interested in operating in the United Kingdom or under UK law. The article also briefly addresses contrasts in UK and U.S. trademark law.
With each successive large-scale cyber attack, it is slowly becoming clear that ransomware attacks are targeting the critical infrastructure of the most powerful country on the planet. Understanding the strategy, and tactics of our opponents, as well as the strategy and the tactics we implement as a response are vital to victory.
The Article 8 opt-in election adds an additional layer of complexity to the already labyrinthine rules governing perfection of security interests under the UCC. A lender that is unaware of the nuances created by the opt in (may find its security interest vulnerable to being primed by another party that has taken steps to perfect in a superior manner under the circumstances.
In Rockwell v. Despart, the New York Supreme Court, Third Department, recently revisited a recurring question: When may a landowner seek judicial removal of a covenant restricting use of her land?