Nicky Richmond is the joint managing partner and one of four equity partners at West End property law practice Brecher. There are over 30 lawyers and a number of new lateral hires – from City firms and specialist boutiques – are due to join soon. She kindly shared her experiences Read More
As I have blogged before about Mischon de Reya, (most recently http://kimtasso.com/collaborative-marketing-of-family-law-services-debretts-and-mishcon-de-reya and http://kimtasso.com/legal-marketing-case-study-mishcon-de-reya) it was interesting to read the article about the firm in a recent edition of The Lawyer http://www.thelawyer.com/reya-light/1013344.article Some of the key themes that emerge as to the key to its success include: A strong managing partner Read More
At the start of July, I ran another of the popular PM courses on “Managing Change and Leadership” http://www.pmforum.co.uk/training/index.aspx. As usual, I promised the delegates a summary from the session and the delay was due to me reviewing a new book on Managing Change (see below). We started the session with Read More
Remember that book “101 uses for a dead cat?” Despite being a cat lover (I have four) I found it funny. What I find less funny is what is happening to large numbers of personal injury lawyers at the moment. Yes, of course there are some bad PI lawyers, as Read More
Two recent but very different articles on leadership attracted my attention. Star Trek Forbes published “Five leadership lessons from James T Kirk” in May http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/03/05/five-leadership-lessons-from-james-t-kirk/. It’s a neat way to get across some key messages – with evidence from the Enterprise’s caption: Never stop learning Be a “walking stack of Read More
