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8 leadership tips for legal leaders from business leader
I talked on leadership tips and frames at a keynote at the annual Boss of the Year Awards Convention in South Africa in August 2011. Brand Pretorius, recently retired former head of Toyota and McCarthy...
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Australian legal profession fails to agree national rules
In a letter to the Australian Financial Review (26th of August 2011) Robert Milliner, Chief Executive Partner, Mallesons, highlights the dilemma faced by the legal profession in Australia following a...
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Pricing, billing and value – tough messages and ideas from two senior General...
Issues and challenges around pricing, alternative fee arrangements and value understandably still get plenty of air-time. They received top billing at the recent COLPM (College of Law Practice...
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Volatile future will demand law firms bring more to the party
The challenging future legal and business environment which is widely anticipated will demand a lot more from law firms than providing quality legal advice. This is the view of Ian Robertson,...
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No foot, no horse
Like horse’s hooves, partnerships have to deal with different conditions throughout a year. There is a well-known equestrian saying: ‘no foot, no horse‘ which means keep the hooves in order or you...
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Open Plan offices and Darwin’s natural selection bring unexpected law firm...
Open plan offices are not new, even for law firms, and no doubt there are a couple of examples in your region. The jury does still seem to be out though in regard to the pros and cons. While there are...
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Well dang! Those nimble NewLaw firms are at it again!
I recently posted on nimbler firms chipping away at others’ brands. Well, it seems they have been at it again – baking some more of BigLaw’s cake and eating a few more slices along the way. NewLaw,...
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Determine your law firm’s destiny
There are many interesting and innovative structural and strategic options for law firms nowadays which can be attractive to clients. It is wise for these to be considered in planning for your future....
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New angle on NewLaw
My colleague Jordan Furlong and I penned an article in August 2014 on NewLaw for the ALPMA website. In that we defined NewLaw as “any strategy, structure, model, process or way of delivering legal...
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