Sentences with phrase «rainmaker lawyer»

It was during this time that some rainmaker lawyers were propelled into the boardrooms as large corporations enlisted their help to formulate legal strategy in titanic takeover battles.

Not exact matches

There would also be a «rainmaker» provision requiring a lawyer to disclose clients of his firm with state interests if he were more than reasonably expected to know about them, sources said.

Bad websites don't stop lawyers and law firms who are rainmakers for a minute.

Ensure that senior or influential lawyers lead by example — you need champions (a managing partner, a practice group leader, a rising rainmaker) who consistently produce articles for a newsletter or posts for a blog to set the tone (and create expectations) for others.

After all, but for the rainmaker's business, the other firm lawyers would be out of work.

But now an article in The Lawyers Weekly (Canada) reports on one exam that actually make sense: a test for whether a lawyer has the talent to make it as a rainmaker.

She has served on the District of Columbia Bar Association's Lawyers» Assistance Program Advisory Board (2007 - 2013), the 2011 Women's Power Summit on Law & Leadership Advisory Board, The ABA Commission on Women in the Profession's Women in Law Leadership Academy faculty (2004 - 2006) the ABA Women Rainmakers» Board (2012 - 2013), and the UC Hastings Leadership Academy for Women Lawyers faculty (2014).

According to Dr. Larry Richard, who has examined thousands of lawyers with the Caliper test, «low sociability scores have broad implications for many aspect of law firm management — mentoring, teamwork,..., and rainmaking... rainmakers scored nearly three and a half times higher on Sociability than service partners!»

If you have 20 lawyers in a firm, the odds are you're only dealing with two to three lawyers that are rainmakers anyway.

Many lawyers, observing their rainmaker peers, likewise see only the most visible things they do versus the -LSB-...]

Women lawyers helping women lawyers be better rainmakers and succeed in their careers.

If a number of lawyers mature into rainmakers around the same time, there may be a coup in which the monarch is forced to retire or share the power.

Every lawyer can be a rainmaker.

Relatively little time, attention, or firm resources may be allocated to things the rainmakers may do not do well, such as maintaining the quality of legal services, financing the practice, recruiting and training new lawyers, employee relations, automation, or any of the many other problems affecting law firms.

In 2004, when asked what she would like her legacy to be, Marty answered, «That women lawyers associated with Women Rainmakers pass on that learning to others.»

(Hint: it takes more than six months to train someone to replace a stellar lawyer, business manager and rainmaker).

This blawg discusses all levels of law firm lawyer compensation, from associates to service partners, to rainmakers, to lawyer - managers, and senior lawyers who are phasing down in preparation for retirement.

Martha Newman of TopLawyerCoach also believes that in order to become successful rainmakers, women lawyers must «use interpersonal marketing to develop strong client relationships and win confidence.»

First I thanks to IGNOU and Rainmaker Co. to offer this chance of improving the skills of lawyers who were prefered to give the quality produce from the LPO industry.

So, law firms looking to motivate their lawyer sales force — including those practitioners who typically avoid rainmaking at all costs — should celebrate and acknowledge rainmaking failures as well as successes -LSB-...] You can motivate existing rainmakers and encourage others to become rainmakers by creating a culture where it is not a failure to come home empty - handed if you hunted well.»

Based on studies of numerous personality traits in lawyers as well as the general population, Dr. Richard has concluded that only 20 % of lawyers are natural rainmakers.

Just like in The Rainmaker, we see an ethically questionable move here by a lawyer tacitly endorsed by a judge, but at least it's acted deftly.

Henderson also adds that in the new large law firm model, the next generation of lawyers «are largely going to begin and end their careers as employees,» with the rainmakers continuing to carry the ball.

This comprehensive approach, featuring up to 28 experts in legal marketing, sales, and service, teaches lawyers the secrets for becoming exceptional rainmakers.

With CMOplaybook ®, your lawyers gain exclusive access to the techniques used by master rainmakers to generate more work from prospective and existing clients.

Marketing is carried out by one group of people (generally «non-lawyer» professionals) and sales by another (lawyers, usually partners or «rainmakers»).

For years, law firms have relied on a few rainmakers to bring in business to keep a slew of other lawyers working.

Even firms that claim to be entrepreneurial often waste the talents and energies of their most resourceful young lawyers who are motivated and eager to become rainmakers.

Those lawyers had to be successful rainmakers with similar types of clients and high quality business to refer; they had to be top performers with top credentials; and they had to share her ambition, drive and commitment to building a successful and lucrative law practice.

What are law firms doing to develop the next generation of successful lawyers and rainmakers in 2012 and beyond?

The Secrets To Marketing & Automating Your Law Practice: A Lawyers Guide to Creating Systems, Getting Clients, & Becoming a Legal Rainmaker by David Bitton

Developing Successful Lawyers and Rainmakers It's almost a brand new year.

Lawyer Metrics, a U.S. consulting firm, compared the personality and behaviour traits of 300 rainmakers and client service partners at top American law firms using lawyer performance and personality assessment data and interviews.

Dr. Richard looked at the difference between rainmakers, those lawyers in the top echelon in terms of developing new business, and service partners, those in the bottom echelon for developing new business but still highly reputed as lawyers.

He is also the author of nine books, including Practice Made Perfect for Lawyers, Becoming a Rainmaker: Business Building Strategies for Lawyers, and Getting Started in Personal and Executive Coaching.

For example, minority lawyers are expected to be rainmakers: there are virtually none in the ranks of the service partners at most firms.

Lawyers looking to become rainmakers will often seek the assistance of a business development coach.

Patton Boggs desperately needs a merger by all signs, as besides losing more than 100 lawyers including key rainmakers over the last two years, the law firm also announced recently that it might be compelled to shut down its Newark office due to lack of profitability.

Indeed, «rainmakers» are so rare that when a partner left one large New York law firm for another in January, American Lawyer headlined the lawyer's knack for generating new files before mentioning where she was moving.

While every firm has at least one «rainmaker,» in nearly all of the 100 + firms I've helped over the years, fewer than 10 percent of the lawyers were either any good at generating new work or had a genuine interest in learning how to do so.

For example, many Partnerships have a small segment of good rainmakers, a majority of decent rainmakers, and a small subset who are good lawyers but can not make rain under the easiest of circumstances (for any number of valid reasons; these are not necessarily «bad» or «lazy» Partners).

After serving as the head of talent for several top law firms, including Arnold & Porter, Weil Gotshal, McGuireWoods, and Cooley, Caren co-founded a start - up company that pioneered a data - driven «Moneyball» approach to lawyer recruitment and executed the first large - scale empirical study to uncover the traits and behaviors of successful rainmakers.

She practiced law for 30 years, 25 as a partner, deal lawyer, and rainmaker at Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge (now Locke Lord Edwards).

One firm with 200 lawyers that retained me as its «CMO On Demand» wanted to boost the number of genuine rainmakers from 11.

We call these partners «rainmakers,» which is a lovely word, about as close to poetry as most lawyers get.

(iii) many law firms have not adequately mentored their associates nor are they willing to hire experienced lawyers to work at the equivalent of associate wages — note that experienced lawyers who work for the government for many years often make less than associates directly out of law school and will not be recruiting since they are deemed not to be «rainmakers»; and / or

Klein discusses her involvement with the ABA and Women Rainmakers Board, the struggle for women in leadership roles, and how generational differences and technology are changing the path of female lawyers.

The best lawyer / managers have a sixth sense for people and management, in addition to being good lawyers and possible outstanding rainmakers.

Women lawyers have made great strides at the entry level ever since that time, some women have become influential leaders and highly successful rainmakers, and recent surveys show that women are moving into partnership at increasing rates in many firms.

««Bringin» In the Rain: Successful Strategies from Women Rainmakers,» Florida Association of Women Lawyers, March 17, 2011