November 2009

Hiring the right people is the first and most important goal in recruitment.  And these days firms do not have the luxury of over-hiring and waiting a few years for the "keepers" to rise to the top. 

A speech at the International Bar Association conference in Madrid last month reiterated the importance of an often-neglected part

The IOMA Law Firm Leadership Alert on November 19, 2009 calls Ronda Muir this month’s Thought Leader, saying she "…presents as cogent an expression of what the future of law firms and law practice will look like as we have yet found." Her article is published in the December issue of the IOMA Partner’s Report

One of the important implications of Muir’s article What the New Law Firm Looks Like: The Reinvention of a Reluctant Industry” is that going forward firms will require the close involvement of sophisticated management professionals who are not necessarily or even preferably lawyers to help design and manage change.  These critical players will not

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Muir points out in her article What the New Law Firm Looks Like that building bigger firms does not necessarily produce better bottom lines.  Of course for many firms long-term client development or other factors beside profitability fuel growth.  And then there are some growing firms which in fact achieve greater profitability in spite of