A Framework For How To Delegate And Manage Staff
If you’re a new associate at a law firm, more than likely you’ll also have staff. A paralegal or a legal assistant. There might be runners and clerks. As a lawyer, you’re above them in the hierarchy of things, even if they’ve been there for five...
20 Tips For Developing Competitive Intelligence
Competitive intelligence is the action of defining, gathering, analyzing, and distributing intelligence about products, customers, competitors, and any aspect of the environment needed to support executives and managers in strategic decision making for an...
Review: Altman Weil 2016 Law Firms in Transition
For the eighth year in a row, Altman Weil has released their latest Law Firms in Transition Survey. Conducted in March and April 2016, the Law Firms in Transition Survey polled Managing partner and Chairs at 800 US law firms with 50 or more lawyers. Completed surveys...
Mow Your Law Firm’s Lawn
Over the weekend I cut the grass. It was mundane. I’ve got an old lawnmower. The self-propulsion is shot. Our yard is around 3/4 of an acre, and on a hill, so mowing the lawn takes some time and is a bit of a workout. Back and forth, up and down. Around trees...
Tell Your Client They’re Going To Get Kicked In The #%$@
At the tail end of last year, my son began taking Tae Kwon Do (TKD). I’ve done martial arts for much of my life, my son is half-Korean, and TKD is the national martial art of Korea, so TKD was a natural choice. He took his first belt test last month and passed...Sidebar
