Joel A Rose

September 17, 2007 | Law.com

Managing partners handle a variety of duties that affect everyone at the firm. The managing partner must focus on the direction of the firm, the organizational skills and leadership qualities integral to the partner's success and the partner's role in organizing legal specialty areas. Consultant Joel Rose looks at the role in the administrative organization of the firm, explaining that he or she must be a planner, a policy developer, an organization and systems supervisor and an appraiser of results.

By Joel A. Rose

8 minute read

January 28, 2010 | Law.com

Quality control should be exercised in the selection, evaluation and retention process at all levels of a law firm's personnel system, writes consultant Joel A. Rose. And decisions to retain legal assistants, law clerks and lawyers are important checkpoints, he says. Rose discusses use of quality checkpoints for lawyers as they move up through the firm, and notes that some firms benefit from using client feedback or setting up more formal systems for training and evaluation.

By Joel A. Rose

7 minute read

June 07, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

Many lawyers are contentious, not because they are lawyers but because many contentious people tend to become lawyers. Most lawyers have massive egos, not because they are lawyers but because people with massive egos tend to become lawyers.

By Joel A. Rose

5 minute read

January 29, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

Attorneys and groups of attorneys often seek to join larger law firms because they expect the size and a better balance of skills and client base to give them improved professional service and long-term economic advantage.

By Joel A. Rose

13 minute read

September 01, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

Who gets what amount? and Is there enough money to go around? are two of the most difficult questions that confront managing partners and members of compensation committees in most law firms, regardless of size and specialty.

By Joel A. Rose

10 minute read

June 02, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

This new monthly column will deal with those practical management issues and problems that confront partners in law firms of all sizes and specialties.

By Joel A. Rose

8 minute read

October 27, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

Developing a capital plan is not a one-time exercise. It should include an ongoing assessment of the firm's strategic and financial needs. At a minimum, firms should focus on their annual capital and cash flow requirements.

By Joel A. Rose

7 minute read

November 09, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

While conducting strategic planning studies and facilitating numerous strategic planning retreats, I regularly discuss with managing partners and members of executive committees, the long-term trends affecting their law firms. It is curious that frequently, the same trend may have very different implications for firms of comparable size and practice.

By Joel A. Rose

10 minute read

October 23, 2007 | Law.com

Progressive law firms are now studying the management and control of the quality and cost-effectiveness of legal services more carefully. The success that a private firm will have in controlling the quality and cost-effectiveness of providing legal services will be in direct proportion to the organization's ability to manage its personnel, facilities and economics says consultant Joel Rose. He describes standards that law firms should set in order to maintain performance.

By Joel A. Rose

11 minute read

December 15, 2008 | Law.com

In light of the current recession, many law firms, individual attorneys and groups of attorneys have considered joining with other firms as strategic options. But mergers do not always succeed. In the great American tradition, romance is an important factor in a merger, as in a marriage, writes consultant Joel A. Rose, and disharmony or economic problems can have love flying out the window. To avoid a merger meltdown, Rose provides several factors to consider before saying "yes" and taking the plunge.

By Joel A. Rose

8 minute read