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Featuring contributions from both legal practitioners and management researchers,Managing the Modern Law Firmseeks to present the latest insights from Management Studies in an approachable, practical, and relevant manner for lawyers involved directly and indirectly with the management of law firms.

Managing The Modern Law Firmis an excellent and timely contribution to an important debate. A recurring theme in professional practices is finding the right balance between spending time in personal added-value activities which tend to be client facing and spending time in management which is so often regarded as a necessary chore for the enterprise to be commercially successful. It is remarkable that with the explosive growth in knowledge-based organisations no definitive means of managing them has yet been found. This book provides the thought processes and disciplines required of the leaders of these firms as they seek to develop the management structures and processes required to take forward their individual approach to this issue. --Richard Lapthorne, Chairman, Cable and Wireless plc

Under the pressures of globalization, lawyers and law firms must find a path between a set of sharply competing concerns: collegial partnership or competitive business; broad-guaged trustee or sharp-edged expert; individual freedom or organizational discipline; niche player or global behemoth. The essays in this book provide important insight into these and other hard questions facing the modern law firm in a fast-moving era of change. --Ben W. Heinman, Jr., Former General Council, GE; Distinguished Senior Fellow, Program on the Legal Profession, Harvard Law School

The evolution of several large law firms into truly global law firms is a relatively recent development in the legal profession. Even the most successful of these firms face new challenges on a daily basis, and they have no proven model to emulate. This book provides an outstandló·