I recently had an “out of body experience” while meeting with a group of young (35–40-year-old) partners who complained intensely about the poor work ethic and, more importantly, intellectual laziness and grade-C work their...more
There may be no single economic challenge facing law firms today bigger than the current war for talent. Driven by transactional practices, the acceleration of base compensation and bonuses started last year and continuing...more
A few weeks ago, while facilitating an All-Lawyer retreat, I had an interesting ah-hah moment. This was an unusual retreat. In the course of our consulting work we facilitate and attend a lot of client retreats, but most of...more