Create a Unified Team By Integrating Your Talent Functions
July 01, 2016
As firms strive to maximize operational efficiencies and increase the effectiveness of recruiting and retention across the talent spectrum, many are evaluating how to best align their talent function to the firm's values and business objectives, essentially with the common goal of delivering excellent client service and enhancing employee career satisfaction.
Wow Your Clients!
July 01, 2016
The old-school term is Client Satisfaction. It's been replaced with Client Delight, which is defined as beyond satisfaction. But, just how good do you have to be, anyway?
Law Firm Retreats
July 01, 2016
In today's economy retreats may still be happening, but many have been tailored down and changed to business meeting formats rather than just R & R. To get the most out of the time and expense investment, proper planning is key.
Firms Increasingly Making Partners Pay to Leave
July 01, 2016
As law firms look to protect themselves from cash walking out the door in a low-demand market, they are increasingly looking at methods to discourage lateral departures and, perhaps more importantly, are enforcing those methods more frequently.
Traits of Future Equity Partners
June 01, 2016
In the last 10 years, I have coached hundreds of attorneys as an internal career coach at Holland & Knight. Some of those associates left law entirely and are now writing novels, playing professional baseball, and flying airplanes. Others have gone in-house or to work for the government. Many of the associates have become non-equity partners, and some are equity partners. Here are some things I have learned about the ones who aim for partnership in a large firm.
When a Same-Sex Couple Separates
June 01, 2016
This article discusses a more equal road to succession in New York's regulated apartments after <i>Obergefell v. Hodges</i>and the Marriage Equality Act.
To Merge or Not to Merge?
June 01, 2016
The "one-percenters" that we are hearing so much about in this year's primary election campaigns also have an analogous place in current law firm economics. The rich are getting richer, and most others are struggling to hold their own.
Millennials Approaching Partnership: Now What?
June 01, 2016
Although legal professional development administrators continue to fight the good fight with respect to new associate development and integration, they must now, more than ever, start focusing on the fact that Millennial lawyers are getting closer to partnership. .
Exit Strategies: Think Like a Start-up
June 01, 2016
Whether businesses sell hard goods, license technology or dispense advice ( e.g. , law firms), the common thread is that they are all businesses founded by one or more individuals, all of whom will someday exit the business. Law firms are businesses, and all too often partners and founders lose sight of that basic premise.
