Restructuring and Turnarounds

Smart Strategy: Rethink, Restructure and Retool

If you didn’t rethink, restructure and retool during the past few years, brace yourself. You’re in for a bumpy ride. We are living in a permanently changed world because life prior to…

Our Future is Forward

As we look forward to 2021, my top 10 think pieces from 2020. Thank you for taking an interest in my work, thoughts and analyses over a year that has been tremendously…

Positioning in the Legal Market Now

A customized combination of four key components enables a firm, company or individual to position as one-of-one rather than one-of-many. If money were no object, how would you position for success? Given…

Restructuring Legal Markets: Brace Yourself

Global response to COVID-19 proves false the notion that change is slow. When push comes to shove, restructuring happens fast. For many professionals in the legal market, the beginning of the end…

The Next Decade of Legal Services — Part 2 — Managing Law Market Change

To remain relevant and solvent, we must quit admiring problems and instead tackle and fix them. In The Next Decade of Legal Services – Part 1 – Embracing Law Market Change, we discussed…

How to Get Out of Your Own Way

A first-person account of healing, restructuring and re-engineering a career – more than once. We’ve all heard “the only constant is change” and “what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger.” When these…

Reckoning and Retooling

Law firm change management means having difficult conversations, and empowering business development professionals. A senior partner who has practiced law for 45 years recently observed to me, “The traditional firm pressures are…

Legal Markets and Marketing: 10 Trends to Watch and Watch Out For in 2018

10 Trends to Watch and Watch Out For in 2018. The year 2008 marked a global financial crisis that was considered the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s. It also…

Flat Squirrels

The road of life is paved with flat squirrels that couldn’t make a decision. Spotted on social media: “Be decisive. Right or wrong, make a decision. The road of life is paved…

Extinction or Evolution — Pass on Processes

Bring in professional turnaround management with hands-on experience executing change in the legal market. There are notions that business processes considered state-of-the-art almost 30 years ago, such as Six Sigma (1986) and…