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The Most Important Task Practice Group Leaders Fail to Manage

By Eric Dewey
October 01, 2021

Managing a group of lawyers is no easy task. When I was a chief marketing officer, I would describe my job to friends as not unlike herding cats. But, not the domestic kind of cats — lions. And not herding lions in just any kind of field, my job felt like I was herding lions in a minefield.

As a practice group leader, you have myriad lion-herding responsibilities to manage.

These include managing the receivables of the group; training and CLE; time and billing entry timeliness; attorney recruiting and retention; budget management and expense control; marketing program and client development initiatives; the individual and group business planning processes; and a host of other tasks not the least of which resolving the myriad of inevitable conflicts and disputes that arise anytime lions gather in groups.

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