Strategy Development

Depressurizing Strategies to Survive the Fourth Quarter

Legal service is a business. Run it that way. For most law firms, September signals a kickoff for the rest of the business year. Some law firms have instituted a four-day-in-the-office, return-to-work…

Legal Talent Rebalancing – Part 1 – Valuing Time

While rebalancing work to live and live to work will be ongoing, the legal services labour market will speak to those who listen and act. In Legal Talent Rebalancing – Part 1…

Recreating the Legal Ecosystem

How investing in client experience strengthens the legal marketplace. This is the year when legal service providers with moxie will take huge steps to advance their market position by investing in clients…

Legal Market Rebirth

Now is when legal service providers must embrace how business works and align accordingly. If anything good is to come from the global pandemic, it’s a rebirth opportunity that enables legal service…

The Next Decade of Legal Services — Part 1 — Embracing Law Market Change

Four “first principles” of change to expect in the coming decade. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the…

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…

No ‘Alternatives’ Anymore

Global legal services demand continuous transformation and collaboration, not divisiveness. There are no “alternative” legal service providers anymore. This is because lawyers and other professionals who provide legal services can be found…

Less Than Attractive

The upshot of a hollowing out of people and profits in legal services. A hollowing out of talent is creating a quiet crisis in the legal market. Altering attitudes and stalling career…

What’s Your Plan?

Now that we’re into a new year, how are your plans shaping up for 2015? Last year, a Managing Partner Forum survey showed that of the 120 US managing partners who responded,…

Strategy Means Saying No

If “yes” is the wrong answer, have the guts to say “no.” When finishing a client engagement a few years ago, a member of the firm sent me a handwritten note that, in…

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