Joel A Rose

April 30, 2010 | Law.com

A law firm retreat can serve as a practical management tool to accomplish many purposes, writes consultant Joel A. Rose. Law firm management frequently takes an opportunity to consider strategic plans, but a retreat may also improve communications and relationships between lawyers.

By Joel A. Rose

9 minute read

October 03, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

For many lawyers, the world has never appeared to be as hostile, bewildering or unstable as it does today, says Joel A. Rose. These feelings result from the complexities and uncertainties of the changing economic, professional and competitive environment in which most law firms find themselves.

By JOEL A. ROSE

10 minute read

March 22, 2010 | The Recorder

When a senior partner leaves, it is imperative that law firms have a plan to transition existing clients to other partners.

By Joel A. Rose

10 minute read

October 19, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

In many financially and professionally successful law firms, the opportunity to profit from transitioning clients from a departing senior partner to other partners at the right time has been well established. In these firms, client transition has become a function of management and client development opportunity rather than the age of the departing partner.

By Joel A. Rose

12 minute read

February 06, 2008 | National Law Journal

Now that Washington, D.C., law firm Williams & Connolly has raised pay for starting associates to $180,000, conventional wisdom is that select New York City firms will increase their starting salaries above that. What would be the effects of the trickle-down theory of this higher associate compensation on the economics of other large and midsize law firms? Consultant Joel Rose explains how this escalating associate compensation fits in with today's law firm economics.

By Joel A. Rose

9 minute read

February 11, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

Strategic planning must have a practice focus. The partners have to understand what the law firm does best and why. Planning by law firms must be client-driven if it is to be effective.

By Joel A. Rose

6 minute read

June 22, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

The old term "survival of the fittest" is taking on increasing importance as the result of the dramatic increase in competition for a declining volume of profitable transactional work in most law firms.

By Joel A. Rose

10 minute read

May 17, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

High quality law firm leadership cannot as easily be replaced as retained. Therefore, a firm must be prepared to reward its managing partner for his or her success in as many different ways as success is measured by a particular law firm.

By Joel A. Rose

7 minute read

June 05, 2006 | Texas Lawyer

Information obtained from client surveys may be the most important marketing activity a law firm can undertake.

By Joel A. Rose

10 minute read

February 04, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

In the selection of a compensation system, it is imperative to acknowledge and reward those partners whose performance is meritorious. If performance is not adequately recognized and rewarded, it is more likely that top performers, and those who are evidencing promise to be top performers, will seek an alternative or be lured away.

By Joel A. Rose

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