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How Do Lawyers Work? How Do You Work?
“How Lawyers Work” series at The Lawyerist The Lawyerist has introduced an interesting series of profiles of individual lawyers called “How Do Lawyers Work?” Not only do I find it intriguing to look...
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Furlong Book a Must-Read for Law Firm Leaders
Jordan Furlong has been a professional colleague and close friend for many years. His passion for understanding the legal profession is unmatched. Perhaps that’s why he is in demand to speak to...
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Helping Small Firms Grow and Become More Successful
Russell C. Ford of Ford-Murray Law Immigration lawyer Russell C. Ford contacted me a few months ago with very positive feedback on my book, which he said he had read early in his career. He said, “The...
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AU Law Firm Credits “People Focus” for Its Success
Screen cap: John Poulsen, Managing Partner, Australian arm of Squire Patton Boggs The managing partner of the Australian office of US-based Squire Patton Boggs, one of the most successful law firms in...
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Facing and Overcoming Law Firm Business-Development Challenges
I was pleased to have been invited recently to contribute my thoughts to an article by Jody Glidden, cofounder and CEO of Introhive. Introhive provides relationship intelligence automation (RIA)...
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Could Regular Interviews Help Law Firms Retain Valuable Staff?
A brief article in Canadian Business suggests a way that businesses and professional companies like law firms can help to identify areas of concern among valuable legal and support staff before they...
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Lawyers or Business Experts: Who Should Be in Charge?
It is not a new debate, but the question is perhaps more relevant than it has ever been before: Should lawyers or business wizards manage law firms? A recent article by Casey Sullivan in Bloomberg Big...
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Mills Oakley Succeeds with Management from Business Sector
John Nerurker, CEO (Management), Mills Oakley In my previous post, I addressed the issue of whether law firms should be managed by lawyers or by business experts – and noted that while many lawyers...
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Nurture Effective Leadership Where You Need It the Most
I was pleased to contribute an article entitled “Stealth Discrimination: A Model for Choosing and Managing Your Leaders” to the December 2017 issue of Edge International Communique. I developed the...
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Twelve Laws (Plus One!) for Law Firm Success
I was pleased to contribute an article entitled “Gerry Riskin’s Immutable Laws of Law Firm Success” to the February 2018 issue of Edge International Communique. There are twelve laws in all (plus a...
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Five Essential Articles: Depression and Substance Abuse among Lawyers
Rocket Matter has published a series of five excellent articles on depression and substance abuse among lawyers. They represent a valuable reminder that – given the competitive nature of our work, its...
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Slicing and Dicing the Demographics of Law-Firm Surveys
As my clients and those who have listened to my presentations are well aware, I am an avid proponent of the use of demographics as an analytic tool by law firms. I had the opportunity to expand on...
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Why is Alcohol Abuse such a Problem among Lawyers? What Can We Do About It?
As this blog and many other law-related publications have reported, a 2016 study sponsored by the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation and the American Bar Association found that more than 20% of lawyers are...
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The Legal Profession Faces an Epidemic (And It’s not Bird Flu)
The Mad Clientist – the blog of the BTI Consulting Group – has diagnosed a growing epidemic among law firms: complacency. “Wishes do come true,” they write. “Legal spending is up. The existential...
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U.S. Law Firms Mark Best First-Half Revenue Growth in Ten Years
Citi Private Bank reports in The American Lawyer that the first half of 2018 was better financially, in particular for small- and large-sized law firms, than was the first half of 2017. In fact,...
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Big Four Accounting Firms Continue Their Advance into Legal Arena
A month ago we reported on the expansion of EY into the legal field through its acquisition of the U.K.’s Riverview Law. Now we learn that PwC U.K. has joined forces with immigration law specialists...
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Competition Likely Cause of Unprecedented Merger Frenzy
U.S. law-firm mergers to the end of the third quarter of 2018 reached levels unseen in the first three quarters of any year for more than a decade, according to an article published last week at...
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Do or Die: Outside Law-Firm Rosters Shrink as Client Spending Grows
Lest any of us get too comfortable in our swivel chairs, a new report from Michael B. Rynowecer, president of the BTI Consulting Group, indicates that in 2018 – despite spending more on outside legal...
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Are Your Clients Requesting Lawyers Based on Their Online Bios?
When lawyers first started creating bios of themselves for use in firm promotion, clients generally used them to choose a firm, or to check out who they’d be working with after the firm had made the...
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Ask Gerry Riskin: Should Corporate and Other Transactional Groups Spin Work...
Client Question* While it seems to be a commonly held assumption that corporate and other transactional groups in firms spin work off to litigation teams (and that this is and should be the primary...
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