Guest blog: Why do women so rarely make it into senior positions?
Why do women so rarely make it into senior positions when our data says women could be more effective leaders of professional service firms than men? The recent appointment of […]
Leadership & Strategy
Guest blog: Motivate your lawyers working remotely during lockdown and beyond
Research has shown what motivates people to behave in certain ways. What can law firm leaders learn from the results to keep their lawyers and staff motivated under lockdown and […]
Guest blog: Lead degeneration
This guest blog is by my colleagues Rob Lees and Mike Mister, focusing on the need for firms to develop effective leadership. “A new study suggests the largest law firms […]
Evaluating Managing Partners
This guest blog is by my friend Rob Lees, former global head of HR at Ernst & Young, later a director at their Global Leadership Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and […]
Scale model
Law firms outside the top 50 are the new ‘squeezed middle’. The burden of regulation is increasing, key practice areas are being commoditised, and closing is complicated and expensive. That’s […]
What HR should really do
Being a member of the HR team in a professional service firm can be a soul-destroying activity. In too many firms, HR is seen as having little to offer and […]
Raise our prices, are you crazy?
Why would a firm seek to raise prices in this dog-eat-dog world? When one in four choose their lawyer on price and price alone, where’s the mileage in exploring raising prices? […]