Remaking Law Firms: Growth won’t solve your firm’s problems

Growth won’t solve your firm’s problems’ is a powerful article in The Am Law Daily on which Ed Reeser has written an equally compelling commentary. With his permission, we are pleased to publish extracts of Ed’s comments on Growth won’t solve your firm’s problems because of their deep implications and insights for BigLaw business model law firms everywhere.

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From Maister to Porter – How the market for law firms has changed!

How the market for law firms has changed! Who would have thought we’d be applying Michael Porter’s Five Forces model to understand law firm strategy?

Let’s face it Porter’s Five Forces, which draws upon classical industrial organization economics, is a framework to understand and address the dynamics of competition and profitability in an industry populated with companies – not partnerships of professionals.

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Remaking Law Firms: Resolving the prioritisation crisis in BigLaw firms

Resolving the prioritisation crisis in BigLaw firms sets the scene for Remaking Law Firms, to be published by the American Bar Association in March 2016.

In some ways I wish I had read Zone to Win: Organizing to Compete in an Age of Disruption, Geoffrey Moore’s most recent book (2015) while researching the content for Remaking Law Firms.  

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