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 […]
Leadership & Strategy
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? […]