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By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | March 14, 2007
Anyone with teenage children will appreciate the problems in understanding exactly what makes them tick - and it seems that graduate recruitment is suffering from a similar syndrome. Since today's graduate recruitment partners were students, the economics and philosophy of higher education have changed radically, which in turn has significantly altered the outlook and priorities of students and graduates. These are the main findings of the inaugural Legal Week Intelligence Student Survey, which questioned more than 2,000 students at the Russell Group of leading UK universities, from which the vast majority of trainees are hired by commercial firms.
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By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | March 14, 2007
In his article 'Leading from the middle' (Legal Week, 15 February, 2007), Tony Angel made the distinction between leadership and management and identified the role of the law firm managing partner as having three basic objectives:
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By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | March 7, 2007
Depending upon your perspective, the baby boomer generation is responsible for all that is good with the world or all that is wrong. Whether you are a 'boomer', a member of 'Generation X', or neither, the truth is that baby boomers were the first generation to never grow up. Like all teenagers, they rejected the values of their parents.
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By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | February 28, 2007
"Commercial barristers are struggling," said an article ('The Bar Barometer') in the pages of Legal Week in December 2006, offering analysis of the future prospects for leading chambers and supported by tales of woe from several leading commercial sets.
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By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | February 28, 2007
The line between the work of barristers and solicitors is becoming increasingly blurred as both professions undergo simultaneous transformations. For those practising independently at the Bar, these changes undoubtedly affect working styles, as well as the nature of their relationship with solicitors.
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By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | February 28, 2007
Many years ago, I received the sort of phone call that any public relations adviser dreads - a solicitor client had been accused of assaulting a woman at his Belgravia offices and the press were all over the story. Allen Chubb, then senior partner at a firm called Child & Child, had apparently rugby-tackled Laura Harold, the wife of a wealthy property developer, following a dispute in which he refused to hand over the deeds of her home before an outstanding bill was settled. Chubb was ultimately convicted of falsely imprisoning and causing actual bodily harm to Harold and faced a three-month suspension by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal. The tale, unsurprisingly, resulted in reams of salacious media coverage - and that was in 1996.
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By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | February 21, 2007
We are rapidly approaching the end of the tax year and, soon thereafter, Gordon Brown's 10th anniversary as Chancellor. Political speculation suggests he will not be in his current post for much longer, but his elevation and a move along the street are unlikely to presage a change in the Government's tax policy.
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By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | February 14, 2007
Before you can retain them, you have to attract them... A derivatives partner conceded recently that his department's efforts to retain young lawyers were focused mainly on keeping them on for a mere six months after they had become useful, such was the current demand for talented young lawyers from the investment banks.
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By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | February 14, 2007
Running a global law firm requires leadership and management; and they are not the same thing. Leadership is about providing vision, direction, motivation, energy and enthusiasm. Management is about providing systems, structures, metrics, rewards and controls. The problem is that most lawyers see leadership as good and management as bad. Yet both are essential and the real trick for a managing partner is to marry the two in a way that best achieves his three essential tasks:
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By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | February 14, 2007
Virtually every law firm in the country will have partners who could do better and contribute more to the firm. In many firms, a lack of a formal appraisal procedure means that their fellow partners are failing to take them to task. This can result in an established culture of underperformance within the firm, leading in some cases to complacency and poor profitability.
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By Jake Heller, Casetext | February 27, 2018
Law firms waking up to the potential of knowledge management will find their way to AI-driven services. That is, unless leadership stands in the way.
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By Roy Strom | February 26, 2018
A year after selling Gerchen Keller Capital for $160 million, the Gerchen-Keller-Lenkner trio of serial entrepreneurs has launched a new litigation boutique that is already hiring.
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By Meghan Tribe | February 26, 2018
Thanks to increased client demand, Debevoise & Plimpton saw gross revenue soar to $822 million and profits per partner jump to nearly $2.9 million, all-time highs for the firm.
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By Roy Strom | February 26, 2018
The two firms have agreed to merge under the name Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, a one profit pool entity that will be co-led by a pair of high-powered women partners.
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By Christine Simmons | February 26, 2018
Gross revenue grew nearly 10 percent, reaching $1.39 billion amid a record year for the firm.
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By Hugh A. Simons | February 26, 2018
If law firms have the bargaining power to raise standard rates an average of 3 percent, and realize a rate increase of 2.5 percent, then do they have the power to raise rates at, say, 7 percent and realize a 5 percent increase?
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By Hugh A. Simons and Gina Passarella | February 25, 2018
Is the bubble set to burst on the buildup of law departments or is now the time to go in-house?
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By Meredith Hobbs | February 23, 2018
Building on prior years' efforts, managing partner Stephen Lewis said the firm is "on a good path forward right now."
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By Charles Toutant | February 23, 2018
U.S. District Judge Robert Kugler granted partial summary judgment to Sun National Bank in its action to foreclose on a house in Ocean City and a building in Bridgeton owned by Kevin McCann.
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By Michael Marciano | February 23, 2018
Connecticut's Wiggin and Dana recently broadened its leadership team with the promotion of Pakistani-American business immigration attorney and recent new mother Najia Khalid to partner.
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