The Lawyer’s Guide to the Future of Practice Management

Expert opinion, guidance, and market knowledge on what today's legal marketplace might look like tomorrow.

The Lawyer's Guide to the Future of Practice Management provides law firm leaders with expert opinion on the very latest guidance and market knowledge on what today's legal marketplace might look like tomorrow, organized into four crucial areas of practice management - technology, people and culture, finance and strategy - before taking a horizon-scan of the future, and what law firms need to be aware of in the coming months and years.

Part one: Technology - Chapter 1: How data will enable the shift towards the productization of legal services - Simon Drane, Earlsferry Advisory - Chapter 2: How data is transforming the relationship between lawyer and client - Jennifer Roberts, manager, InTapp - Chapter 3: Blockchain's likely impact on law firm business models - Robert Millard, director, Cambridge Strategy Group Part two: People and culture - Chapter 4: Flexible working arrangements - the next stage from the "office nine-to-five" - Dr Bailey Bosch, director of people and culture, and Katherine Thomas, CEO, Free Range Lawyers - Chapter 5: Modern career trajectories - is partnership still the end goal? - Clare Harman Clark, PSL, Taylor Wessing - Chapter 6: The law department of the future - What will good look like? - Janvi Patel, Halebury - Chapter 7: How to survive and succeed leading a multi-generational practice group - Phyllis Weiss Haserot, Practice Development Counsel Part three: Finance - Chapter 8: Promoting firm goals through effective associate compensation approaches - Arthur G. Greene, Boyer Greene - Chapter 9: A data scientist's perspective on law firm profitability - Zev J Eigen, Syndio Solutions Part four: Strategy - Chapter 10: Adopting a strategic planning approach and leadership for innovation - Christie Guimond, Bird and Bird - Chapter 11: Why innovate? The link between strategy and innovation - Langdon Morris, Innovation Labs - Chapter 12: The fundamental challenges facing any new or future leader - Patrick J McKenna Part five: Horizon scanning - Chapter 13: The inevitability of multi-disciplinary practices - Michael Roster, formerly Stanford University and formerly Morrison & Foersterr - Chapter 14: The evolving role of the PSL - past, present and future - Ailish Hogan and Lucinda Troostwyck, Taylor Root - Chapter 15: The evolving law department - what the future holds - Patrick Lamb, ElevateNext Law