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Are Your Practice Groups—and Their Leaders—Truly Empowered?

Several colleagues were recently interviewing for a role as the head of Practice Group Management at a law firm. Some came from firms that I would describe as having empowered their practice group leaders—firms that were, in...more

Accountability vs. Autonomy – Is That Really the Question?

Law firms often struggle with accountability. At its core, accountability means taking responsibility for one’s commitments, a concept that should align naturally with the legal profession’s values. Yet, in many firms, the...more

After 35 Years, Now What’s Next for Law Firms?

By Co-Founding Principals Susan Raridon Lambreth and Joseph Altonji Co-author Susan Raridon Lambreth wrote an article for the American Bar Association Journal (ABA Journal) in 1989 about the future of law firms over the next...more

Practice Group Leader Roles – More than a Side Gig

Are you a Practice Group or Department Leader in your firm? Or, an industry or client team leader? As I wrote about in the second edition of The Practice Group Leader’s Handbook for Success, you may focus on the magnitude of...more

Three Ways to Foster Collaboration in Your Law Firm

At the College of Law Practice Management Futures Conference March 12 – 13, the theme was networks – collaborative, neural, professional, and more. There were many excellent presentations and the sharing in the breakout...more

Practice Group Management: The Key to More Effective Use of Investment Time to Build Your Firm

Most firms today have embraced effective and empowered practice management for many reasons: improved engagement and retention of their valued professionals, greater profitability, more collaboration and teamwork, enhanced...more

What Law Firm Practice Leaders Need Now

Introduction In the complex and ever-evolving world of law firms, the role of a practice group leader is crucial. Like a symphony conductor, practice group leaders are accountable for bringing together talented individuals to...more

Winning the War for Talent with Your Practice Groups – Part 2: Understanding the impact of lawyer attrition and taking action

In Part 1 of this series, we discussed the statistics underlying the Great Resignation, research on engagement and some of the actions practice groups can take using the project management approach to stop the exodus and...more

Winning the War for Talent with Your Practice Groups – Part 1: The role of Practice Groups (and Practice Group Leaders) in...

Every week, there is an article about the Great Resignation or Great Reshuffle as it is called in Big Law. So, how can practice groups and Practice Group Leaders help stop the exodus at your firm and retain your talent?...more

Enhancing Practice Group Performance – Part 2: Creating an Ownership Mindset

Those who get in at the beginning of an exciting new business, owners or not, have an ownership mentality. It’s likely that you know someone like this, who is passionate and exceptionally dedicated to what they do. They feel...more

Enhancing Practice Group Performance – Part 1: Running Effective Practice Group Meetings

There’s a war for talent and many of the best law firms are winning. That’s why it’s critically important to engage your practice group members. One of the seemingly mundane but highly important tasks of a practice leader is...more

When Relevance is the Question, LPM is the Answer

In part 3 of our series, we touted the one word response of our Global LPM Summit speaker David Rueff, Chief Solutions Officer for Baker Donelson when he used the word strategic to describe legal project management. In part...more

How Can Managing Partners Optimize Practice Group Leader Performance?

To say that the pandemic issued in an era of intense uncertainty would be to understate the obvious. And during these uncertain times, leadership is more critical than ever. In an article I wrote a few months ago, I asked the...more

Optimizing Practice Group Leader Performance (Part 2)

We may not yet have a remedy for the pandemic, but we do have some tools in our arsenal to deal with uncertainty. In Part 1 of this series, we discussed three key factors in developing high-performing leaders. They...more

The Practice Group Leader as Change Agent, Part 2

If Practice Group Leaders were important before, they are even more critical during this period of intense change. They are, in fact, change agents, the leaders who will help propel the most progressive firms forward to face...more

The Practice Group Leader as Change Agent, Part 1

Even when business is rolling along as usual, Practice Group Leaders are among the most essential players in achieving a law firm’s long-term success. They help the group’s lawyers set and achieve well-defined goals related...more

Are You Leading Your Practice Group Effectively?

Our LawVision Covid-19 Recovery Playbook is packed with actionable advice. One of the top ten recommendations is that “Firmwide practice group leaders need to know how to lead and manage in a virtual world — a goal that...more

Leading Successful Practices Through COVID-19 – Learn from Your Peers and Pay It Forward

Recently, LawVision hosted a webinar for the members of its Practice Group Professionals Roundtable.   This is one of our longest running roundtables, started in 2001.   The members are the business directors, chiefs of...more

[Event] Leading Practice Groups in a Time of Great Change - October 29th-30th, New York, NY

For the third year, LawVision and LawyerBrain have teamed to offer their cutting-edge workshop based on the latest research and experience on leadership that can help law firm Practice and Industry Group Leaders, Department...more

Are Your Practice Groups Working? 5 Reasons Why Law Firm Practice Management Structures Don’t Work

I recently got a call from a firm that wanted to talk about changing their practice management structure. They had questions about how to improve the selection and accountability of the practice group leaders (PGLs) and...more

[Event] Leadership Workshop for Practice Group Leaders - October 2nd & 3rd , New York, NY

LawVision and LawyerBrain have teamed again to develop and offer a cutting-edge workshop based on the latest research and experience on leadership that can help law firm Practice Group Leaders, Department Heads, and others...more

Legal Project Management: Is It Really Worth It? 

At the recent LawVision Group LPM Roundtable meeting (a group of about 40 firms implementing LPM), Aaron Kotok from AdvanceLaw made a provocative presentation of some of the preliminary findings of the GC Thought Leader...more

Legal Project Management: You Can’t Fake It Anymore (Part 2) – Service Delivery as Part of Strategy and Differentiation

Virtually every article kicking off 2018 has talked about the “new” world that law firms are facing: more work going to in-house counsel and alternative legal service providers (or ALSPs), increasing pressures on law firms to...more

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