Monthly Archives: October 2014
Maximizing Face Time
October 27, 2014
By Valerie Fontaine – Technological advances constantly improve connectivity, increasing the expectation of lawyers’ availability to work 24/7, while decreasing their need to spend time in the office to do so. A 2010 American Bar Association survey found that 71 percent of the respondents sometimes work remotely from hotels, cafés, their homes, and libraries. In the
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Six Ways to Ruin Your Brand
October 27, 2014
By Andi Cullins, Guest Contributor – By now we’ve all read that the job market is turning around. We’re noting that most Boomers really will retire – sooner rather than later – and law firms will have to contend with the skill gap. This means the competition for the best talent is going to intensify. In these days
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Groundbreaking Research: What Partners Do That Non-Partners Don’t (Part 1)
October 20, 2014
By Juliet Aiken, Lori Berman, and Heather Bock – In our last post, we covered the importance of becoming a master of fate for your health, flourishing, and promotion to partner. While being in control and strategically investing in your career will help you thrive in all three measures of success, they aren’t the only attributes
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Your Old Guard is Leaving. Are Your New Leaders Ready to Take Over?
October 13, 2014
By Ida Abbott – How is your firm preparing its new leaders? The need to do it is becoming urgent. A NALP study of law firm demographics reports that in 2013 there were 22,861 law firm partners.[1] According to The American Lawyer, about 16% of partners in the 200 top-grossing law firms are 60 years old or
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