Managing Partners: This Is Your Moment!

The crisis is hitting and it’s hitting harder every day. The so-called specialised legal press is reporting on law firm lay-off scores as if it were some kind of new sport. And since the recession strikes law firms with a slight delay, the gloomiest of times are probably still lying ahead of us. This is a good moment to go out on a limb for the managing partners of Europe’s law firms.

Despite the dreary challenges they are facing, we believe vast opportunities rise before them: they will finally be able to show how all this expensive and time-consuming ‘management stuff’ protects their firm against the woes of a deep crisis and, more importantly, they will dispose of the ammunition to do some true long term change management and further pilot their firms into a different 21st century.

Click here for the full article that appeared in the December issue of Toplegal International.

Barend Blondé