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Employer brand?

wilks wrote 3 months ago: Once a week in the FT’s Business Life column, Stefan Stern tells it like it is.  If you have n … more →

Tags: leadership, Employer Brand, law firm layoffs, law firm recruitment, stefan stern

Calling time on the billable hour

wilks wrote 4 months ago: This says it all, Selling time by the hour rather than results by value is as doomed in the long ter … more →

Tags: Legal Profession, Practice Management, billable hour, lawyers' charge out rates, Legal Village, Michael Stern, Richard Susskind

Crisis-driven change

wilks wrote 4 months ago: The opening quote of Francesco Guerrera’s Analysis article in this morning’s FT caught t … more →

Tags: Financial Times, FRANCESCO GUERRERA, law firm leadership, Law Firm Strategy

A different S word

wilks wrote 5 months ago: Read Stefan Stern’s latest column in the FT, Time to get your strategy right. It has been a pr … more →

Tags: leadership, law firm leadership, Law Firm Strategy, stefan stern, Strategy

Leadership is all

wilks wrote 7 months ago: In a week when everything is overshadowed by the fate of Speaker Martin (at the time of posting we a … more →

Tags: Legal practice, Lawyers, Legal Profession, leadership, professional service firms

Holding on to optimism

wilks wrote 9 months ago: A very good public lecture at the University of Exeter yesterday evening on Building the Energy Futu … more →

Tags: leadership, stefan stern, University of Exeter, james smith, Shell UK, building the future, steve smith, optimism

More on the future of law

wilks wrote 9 months ago: Another thought provoking post by Jordan Furlong in Law 21 on How to solve the legal employment prob … more →

Tags: Legal practice, Legal Profession, Lawyers, Clients, future of legal services, Law 21

Martin Lukes, where are you?

wilks wrote 10 months ago: As always, a thought provoking article by Stefan Stern in the FT this morning on the trials, tribula … more →

Tags: ethics, stefan stern, Martin Lukes, Integethics™, HR

Simple mathematics

wilks wrote 10 months ago: From a recent post by Bruce MacEwen’s in Adam Smith, Esq. Finally, let us never underestimate … more →

Tags: Legal practice, margins, lateral hires, law firm revenue

Time to go?1 comment

wilks wrote 1 year ago: Generational change is an ever-present issue for most law firms: not just how to manage a new genera … more →

Tags: Succession, generational change

Strategy, Conflict and Leadership

wilks wrote 1 year ago: An excellent column by Stefan Stern in today’s FT, The challenge of straight talking. What is … more →

Tags: stefan stern, .:*Conflict*:., leadership

Strategy, Conflict and Leadership

wilks wrote 1 year ago: An excellent column by Stefan Stern in today’s FT, The challenge of straight talking. What is … more →

Tags: .:*Conflict*:., leadership, stefan stern

Some downturn risks

wilks wrote 1 year ago: Chasing debt and effective cash flow management are critical in a downturn (see Rob Millard’s … more →

Tags: Risk Management, Rob Millard, recession, Partner performance, client take on, cash flow management

Batten down the hatches?1 comment

wilks wrote 1 year ago: Another excellent article, Taking Advantage of a Recession in Kerma Partners Quarterly: a lot of sen … more →

Tags: Legal Profession, Kerma Partners, Legal Services Act, future of legal services, law & society, SRA, big bang, deregulation, recession

The long view

wilks wrote 1 year ago: I posted some weeks ago about cultivating a habit of optimism: something which is increasingly diffi … more →

Tags: Business Development, Clients, Slow Down, Smith & Williamson, David Hunt, Business planning, service delivery, Prices, Costs

The C word - but which one?

wilks wrote 1 year ago: The accelerating downturn, and the UK property market (both residential and commercial) hitting the … more →

Tags: Legal Services Act, future of legal services, Stephen Mayson, Consolidation

Not waving but drowning1 comment

wilks wrote 1 year ago: Train journeys offer an excellent opportunity to catch up on reading, both professional and manageme … more →

Tags: Strategy, billable hour, Edge International, Rob Millard

Dormant clients

wilks wrote 1 year ago: In a recent post, Not quite such a simple solution I argued that time may be better spent looking at … more →

Tags: Business Development, Clients, Communication, dormant clients

Staying alive1 comment

wilks wrote 1 year ago: If you haven’t read Rob Millard’s post The Greatest Banking Crisis of our Generation on … more →

Tags: Rob Millard, Law Firm Strategy, survival


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