Better Law Practice Through Better People Management
Ronda Muir, Esq., Senior Consultant at Robin Rolfe Resources, was featured as a speaker at a conference on Risk Management for the Modern Law Firm, sponsored by ARK Group. The conference was held in Chicago on April 17 and 18, 2007.
Muir’s presentation was on the risks that arise in managing a law firm’s greatest asset: its people. She…
Women lawyers are not serving in appropriate numbers on corporate boards, bemoans an April 6, 2007 article in the New York Times Business Section. Evidently only 14.6% of Fortune 500 companies counted a woman among their directors in 2006.
That same year women accounted for 17% of law firm partners (presumably equity partners), 16% of law school…
In what may be a first, Intel Corp. issued an RFP last fall to find law firms to partner with their attorneys on community service projects in Silicon Valley. This year it is expanding the request to three other offices. The firms it chose in the first round were Baker & McKenzie, which had done work for…