Better Law Practice Through Better People Management
A question was posed recently in the press: – "Why are lawyers such terrible managers?"
The article appeared in CNN’s online Money/Fortune magazine. It cites statistics from the National Association for Legal Professionals Foundation that in 2010 law firms with 100 and fewer lawyers and 251-500 attorneys lost nearly one fifth of their…
Given our last entry, it is not surprising that law school applications have been going down dramatically over the last few years. With the high cost of law school, the paucity of jobs (only half the number of jobs as there are law school graduates) and the dimming career and earnings prospects for lawyers who do get law jobs, young…
There aren’t many developments in the legal industry that literally bowl you over–okay, the demise of Dewey & LeBoeuf was a fast-paced shocker. Hearing over the last few months questions about the future viability of one or another well-respected law school has been another.
Let’s review the bidding in that part of the legal field:
Unprepared to Practice. …
Speaking of doctors in white coats, one has identified an attribute that may not rub off onto you when you don your own white coat. According to Peter Ubel, a physician and behavioral scientist at Duke University, Starbucks employees have better training and are more effective in acting emotionally intelligent than doctors are. In his…
Here is the third and final installment on some of the highlights from this year’s Futures Conference of the College of Law Practice Management held at Georgetown Law School at the end of last month:
What General Counsel Want From Their Outside Law Firms
The panel’s top considerations reflected the same ones outlined in the ACC’s GC Value Insights, prepared in cooperation with…
The following is a second installment about some of the highlights from this year’s Futures Conference of the College of Law Practice Management held at Georgetown Law School the end of October:
Hiring and Training Successful Lawyers
Georgetown Law School reported on two research projects they are undertaking–“Integration and
Fragmentation in the Modern Law Firm” and “Developing …
The following are some of the highlights from this year’s Futures Conference of the College of Law Practice Management held at Georgetown Law School last week:
New Model Law Firms
New entrants into law firm alternative business models are Clearspire, which consists of 2 joined companies –one providing legal services to clients and the other providing…
Most of us have very high standards for the work we deliver our clients. We demand from ourselves and those on our team the best possible product. "Performance at whatever price" might be our mantra, even if it requires nagging and criticizing or even bullying.
Yet confrontational environments feel uncomfortable to most people and over the long run are in fact not conducive…
A series of articles in the Wall Street Journal last week discussed the trend in corporate America toward using analysis of data obtained through personality and other questionnaires from employees to guide better long-term hiring. The information obtained from employees coupled with their work histories gives employers, particularly of large workforces with potentially large turnover rates, a better predictive…
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