Quantcast
Channel: lateral hiring in big law – The Belly of the Beast
Browsing all 7 articles
Browse latest View live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

FED TO DEATH

Most of today’s big law leaders think they’ll be able to avoid traps that have destroyed great firms of the recent past. Are they that much smarter than their predecessors? Or are they oblivious to the...

View Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

DEWEY’S DILEMMA

Dewey & LeBoeuf has talented lawyers, great clients, and 2011 average equity partner profits exceeding $1.7 million. So what required a March 2 firmwide memo from Chairman Steven H. Davis in...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

UNFORTUNATE (AND IRONIC) COMMENT AWARD

If Dewey & LeBeouf has so-called friends like its former partner John Altorelli…well, you know the rest. Altorelli’s recent comments to Am Law Daily include so many candidates for my Unfortunate...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

ANOTHER COLOSSAL LATERAL MISTAKE

Lateral hires are risky. Even managing partners responding to the Hildebrandt/Citi 2015 Client Advisory’s confidential survey admitted that only about half of their lateral partners are break-even at...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

BIG LAW LEADERS PERPETUATING MISTAKES

In January 2014, the annual Georgetown/Peer Monitor “Report on the State of the Legal Market” urged law firm leaders to shun a “growth for growth’s sake” strategy. The year 2013 had been a...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

THE LATEST BIG LAW FIRM STRATEGY: PERFECTING ERROR

NOTE: Amazon is running a promotion. The KINDLE version of my novel, The Partnership, is available as a free download from March 30 through April 3, 2016. Two months ago in “Big Law Leaders...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

THE REAL STORY OF THE NEW YORK PRIMARY

It was a “Dewey Defeats Truman” moment. Shortly after the polls closed on primary election night in New York, CNN made a bold prediction. Its exit polling showed Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders...

View Article
Browsing all 7 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images