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Question of the Month: Why So Much Excess Capacity (Still)?

by Bruce | June 27, 2018 | Articles, Book Reviews, Finance, Leadership, Question of the Month

According to the recently released 2018 Altman Weil “Law Firms in Transition” (an annual survey  they’ve been doing for a decade with invaluable longitudinal data at this point), in 51% of firms surveyed equity partners are “not busy...

Question of the Month: How to get lawyers to collaborate?

by Bruce | May 11, 2018 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Practice Group Management, Question of the Month

Take it away, readers! [poll id=”15″]

Question of the Month: What are law firms selling?

by Bruce | April 4, 2018 | Articles, Question of the Month

You know what to do. Take it away, Readers!   [poll id=”14″]

February 2018 Question of the Month: Origination Is ____?

by Bruce | February 10, 2018 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Practice Group Management, Question of the Month

You know what to do!  Please use the comments box at the bottom for any additional thoughts or observations.   [poll id=”13″]  

Question of Month: Succession Planning: Why is it Radioactive?

by Bruce | February 9, 2018 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Question of the Month, Strategy

This column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. Dear Readers, Succession planning has been much on our minds lately, in part because it is so rarely on the minds of most law firms or lawyers.  And as Bruce noted when posing this question, “according to the...

Polls Closing Soon on this Month’s “Question”

by Bruce | January 29, 2018 | Articles, Question of the Month

If you haven’t voted yet, polls are closing soon on the January 2018 Question of the Month (hint: why are law firms so bad at succession planning?). By “bad,” we mean four out of five seem to be ignoring the inevitable.  
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