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10 mistakes law firms make in managing their client relationships…
The importance of enhanced client focus continues to ratchet up. With good reason. In the “battle for market share” your current clients are both more valuable and vulnerable than before..
read more +LawLand’s Newspeak, or, Our Perversion of English
Pop quiz: What language has no words for "democracy," "science," or "religion?" While you're mulling that one over, with apologies to one of the great English language rhetoricians and bromide-busters of the 20th Century, George Orwell (1903--1950), we have often...
Summer Reading List
This column is becoming something of a tradition, and traditions must be maintained. On my desk, and thereabouts, these days: Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe, Niall Ferguson Why bureaucratic and complex systems, which seem to promise reliability and predictability,...
Question of the Month: Your “Back to the Office” Policy?
It's been awhile since we've offered you all up a "Question of the Month," but we never promised our readers consistency. We hope you have come to appreciate variety, however, so in that spirit, you know what to do: [poll id="22"]
“Golden handcuffs: dealmaking lawyers weigh up their own Faustian bargains:” Andrew Hill, the Financial Times
In today's FT, Andrew Hill, their gifted and prolific management essayist, published a column of that name (link works only for FT subscribers) discussing the unheard-of pressures on corporate deal lawyers--partners and associates alike--given the superheated private...
Leadership Notes From All Over
We'll be brief. Two thumpingly different examples of leadership behavior crossed my desk in the past 24 hours, one unforgettable in its inspirational caliber and the other equally memorable, but for the "frogmarch-that-person-to-the-door" response it called forth. The...
