Successful growth for any law firm is difficult; for firms such as K&L Gates, which has 48 offices spread over five continents, that difficulty is magnified on a global scale. But K&L Gates’ global strategic growth partner Craig Budner has found ways to handle that challenge, particularly by helping the firm find ways to unify its multitude of offices operationally.
Connecting new offices and building profitability across a broad geographic footprint was a challenge faced, and failed, by a few notable names this year, particularly with a spate of firms shuttering locations in South Africa and China. Integration proved a fatal factor in several of those cases.
