Insights

Deb has spent most of her waking hours the past several weeks counseling clients on how the strategic decisions they make now will echo through the next few years and beyond. Every management decision sends a message to your clients, your attorneys and your competitors. What message do you want to send? Click here to read Deb's Insights piece....

In a cultural moment that shows little tolerance for neutral players beholden only to the interests of their clients, law leaders face uncomfortable conflicts and big decisions about what it means to be a moral actor in 2020. Here’s how to face them head-on. It’s an old American truism that “doing well” is incompatible with “doing good,” but, in 2020, that belief has been overturned by the movement toward greater corporate social responsibility and the expectation,...

There is so much consolidation in Chicago and other legal markets across the country that some small and mid-size firms that haven’t yet been gobbled up may believe it’s only a matter of time before they merge or get acquired. In many cases this path makes the most business sense for lawyers and their clients.

Other firms, however, resist this pressure, and remain determined to continue on independently. These underdogs face two...

Most law firm leaders have given at least some thought to how they would respond when blindsided by a damaging news story, lawsuit or other event that brings unwanted attention to their firm. Unfortunately, too many of them engage in that reflection at 2 a.m. in a cold sweat, then go back to sleep and forget all about it.

Planning for a crisis costs time and money, and to the more superstitious among us it may feel like tempting fate. But time and again, organizations that are able to...

By now everyone has heard about the statement that struck fear in the hearts of shareholders across the country.

On August 19, the Business Roundtable, a group representing the chief executives of 192 large companies, published an update to its definition of the purpose of the corporation. Since the 1980s, the business world has treated...