Successful Law & Other Professional Firms: Shared Characteristics

Successful law firms — and actually all professional firms and successful businesses — seem to share many common characteristics regardless of their size, areas of practice or location.  A few months back I posted a“shared characteristics” list for 2009 firm success stories.  I’ve updated and posted below a somewhat updated mini-article and checklist: Seminar attendees [...]

Law Firm Leadership

By clicking here, you’ll pull up a copy of one of my articles on effective law firm leadership  – an often talked about subject, but not as often practiced.  This article also includes my simplistic self-audit for privately evaluating our own leadership characteristics.  And, I suggest an easy way to immediately start honing any leadership [...]

What's Your Brand?

Below are the initial sentences of a succinct and excellent blog post at www.biziboom.com by attorney Scott Gibson.  I encourage all my readers and clients to read and reread this well-written post on such a critical subject for us all.  If you’re on Twitter, don’t miss Mr. Gibson’s great tweets as well (@tradesecretlaw). Everybody Has [...]

Short-Term Law Firm Action Plans Best in Challenging Times

This post focuses on the benefits for law firms of short term action plans in tough times.  First, however….some background dialogue – Even today in spite of the drastic changes taking place within so many firms, some attorneys claim that practicing law is not a business but a profession.  And, some of these folks, unfortunately, [...]