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Supporting Your New Managing Partner

By William C. Cobb
May 27, 2011

Many law firms are going through a transition to the next managing partner. As they do, there are lessons to be learned. There will be a successful transition if some requirements are met. This article focuses on those requirements because if the transition fails, so does the credibility of leadership. Without credibility of leadership, the firm will become rudderless, dysfunctional, and headed for oblivion.

As an example, let me draw from a small book titled “Murphy's Law and Other Reasons Why Things Go Wrong.” Brien's First Law: “At sometime in the life cycle of virtually every organization, its ability to succeed in spite of itself runs out.”

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