I am no PR expert, but I’ve been known to play one next to the water cooler.
“Leadership is the art of setting direction for others and getting them to move in that direction with competence and commitment.” — Elliott Jacques and Stephen Clement
Speaking truth to power: Now is the time for managers to lead and leaders to emerge in law firms of all sizes. Power is spread among individuals in
“If you don’t cut associate starting salaries now, you are nuts. They were too high. Now we have to pay for it.” – Bradford Hildebrandt (as reported in the ABA Journal online)
Most of the biglaw firms just let them go. MacGuire Woods is rolling back salaries of its incoming associate class to
Latham & Watkins is laying off an additional 190 associates and 250 staff. Citing the deepening recession, Chairman Robert Dell told the American Lawyer on Friday, “The health of the global economy is likely to remain poor this year and so staffing levels have to be better aligned with client needs.”
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On Friday I was giving an overview of how marketing and business development in law firms evolved from the Bates v. State Bar of Arizona decision to today. At some point our conversation turned to the phenomenon of the growth and acceptance of lateral partner movement.
When I started in legal marketing in 1998, it
There certainly is plenty of bad news to go around. Enough so that it even has the good guys looking down at their shoes. What’s a law firm to do?
1. Passion And Leadership Are Imperative
Successful firms will have a strong, visible leader who oozes belief in the firm’s raison d’être and the client
In one of his most quoted moments of his career, Steve Martin, in The Jerk, shouted out in glee:
The new phone book’s here! The new phone book’s here! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity I need! My name in print! That really makes somebody! Things are going to start happening to
Like most Americans, I woke up this morning and put on my post-election quarterbacking hat. I have my opinions on what Obama did right, what he needs to do to be successful in his first 90 days, and what he must do to get reelected in 2012. Same thing goes for the Republicans, from John
Do you remember the 1988 fantasy-comedy film “Big” about a boy who makes a wish “to be big”? After being humiliated while trying to impress an older teenage girl at a carnival, Josh Baskin goes to a wish/fortune-telling machine (called Zoltar Speaks) and wishes that he were “big.” The next morning, he sees
My kids keep asking what I’m going to be for Halloween. After reading today’s Above the Law round up, I’m thinking “depressed legal marketer.”
But, once again, the Pollyanna in me is coming out. I’m listening to an NPR