Partnership Agreements
Law Firm Resolutions for a Happy New Year
Now that your personal New Year’s resolutions are kaput, February is a good time to consider some resolutions for your law practice that will lead to a happier and healthier law firm. Like most resolutions, these are things that you want to do, and probably know that you should do, but may have been avoiding or just haven’t yet gotten done.
Your Law Firm Culture Should Protect the Firm from Partner Departures
It is critically important to respond to partner departures in the right way. But like any risk management analysis, it is not enough to put protections in place to react. To manage the firm properly, you also must analyze whether the firm's culture is aligned with the goal of retaining talented partners in the first place.
Why Your Law Firm Needs a Lawyer
Law firms are full of lawyers, so why would a firm full of lawyers need its own counsel? Lots of reasons, it turns out.
5 Law Firm Events That Can Trigger Partner Departures
Well-managed firms try to anticipate situations that can lead to partner departures to prevent departures or to manage them. However, the starting point is to know what can trigger partner departures.
Which Law Firm Partners Should Stay and Which Should Go?
The best risk management approach for partner departures is to prevent the right partners from wanting to leave the firm in the first place. For the others, well, they should go.