The skills this requires go beyond the kind of
team leadership lawyers now demonstrate on teams within their firms.
Not exact matches
It goes without saying that having a
lawyer and the noble hacker guy who tried to quit out in front is not the most flattering look for a company so synonymous with its
leadership team, namely Zuckerberg and Sandberg.
On Tuesday, moments after finding out about the layoffs and
leadership upheaval at the Downtown Project in Las Vegas, I asked Tony Hsieh by phone why he stepped down as leader of the utopian startup city he had founded, and why he had continued act as head of the ambitious experiment in the desert despite having already handed over the reins to his
lawyer and a
team of executives.
The Office of the AGF under the
leadership of Mohammed Adoke (SAN) set up a
team of five
lawyers which would ensure the swift recovery of the funds.
Stefan Pryor, Malloy's Education Commissioner added that his agency's
lawyers would be «extremely involved» in the investigation... this despite the fact that Pryor and his
leadership team should be among those being investigated.
Although Connecticut is learning the hard way that
lawyers, with no classroom or education background, don't make the best education leaders, it's impossible to believe that Governor Malloy's Education Commissioner, Stefan Pryor, and his senior
leadership team fail to understand that creating a safe school environment is one of the most important educational issues of our time.
Forward - thinking law firm
leadership will see the stress fractures and will embark upon a course of long - term transformation from the old
lawyer - centric model to an enterprise or entity approach to providing legal services - Law as a
Team Sport.
What is critical now is that we ensure that diverse
lawyers are given the opportunity to lead those
teams, and take
leadership responsibility for the business.
The problem is, most
leadership positions are filled with
lawyers who've never learned how to lead other
lawyers, who don't work together as a
team, and who have other priorities (billable hours, clients, and prospective clients) that command more of their attention.
But those
lawyers whose time and legal expertise your business needs lack skills in
team leadership, delegation, and cost discipline that the average general manager uses every day.
His
leadership continues to propel us to excellence and has resulted in a phenomenal
team of
lawyers and staff.
We know that all people are different, but when
lawyers move into
leadership they tend to treat
team members as if each of them is the leader's carbon copy.
How do you get from the baseline of being a good, functional
lawyer to the brilliance of being an indispensable member of the senior
leadership team?
I wonder whether
teaming up with others who have a more collaborative
leadership style allows
lawyers to notice their non-collaborative tendencies, or not.
Our
team is unique in its combination of three core types of experience — seasoned technology and service company
leadership outside the legal industry, helping us scale efficiently; expertise and tenure as
lawyers facing discovery issues for decades, enabling a consultative approach grounded in practical solutions; and experience creating inventive and collaborative solutions since the inception of electronic discovery services, ensuring that our clients receive well vetted, highest quality services.
At the Federal Highway Administration, Tom led a national
team of more than 50
lawyers providing legal and policy counsel to the agency's
leadership on a wide range of regulatory and policy issues affecting transportation infrastructure, including environmental review and permitting for transportation projects; compliance with Buy America requirements; investigation of civil rights complaints filed under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act; implementation of federal grant, loan, and loan guarantee programs for transportation projects; and development of major rulemakings and guidance documents implementing recent federal transportation legislation.
Both
lawyers are former general counsels and will expand the Firm's Health Care practice while providing sophisticated transactional advice to senior
leadership teams across the health care industry.
Ask most
lawyers about their firm's strategy, and they'll think back to that time when the firm's
leadership team took several meetings and at least one offsite retreat to come up with a grand vision for the firm, eventually expressed in a handsome bound document that now occupies the rarely accessed top shelf in their office.
Duties include but are not limited to: • Execute strategy for the firm's integrated marketing, business development, communications, and recommend improvements to the strategy • Plan, develop, and execute projects and programs that support a practice group's strategic plan and track success • Support client engagement initiatives, including training for enhanced client service strategies, contact origination and relationship development, and education / thought
leadership initiatives • Provide direction and manage production of proposals, PowerPoint presentations, and RFP responses for the practice groups • Provide direction and manage execution of practice group sponsorships, client presentations and seminars, and other events related to the promotion of the practice groups • Drive awareness / recognition, enhance quality and brand perception of the firm • Manage submissions for major awards, comprehensive survey response campaigns (e.g. Chambers), and related initiatives to further the awareness and positioning of the firm's practices and
lawyers • Develop a deep understanding of the practice groups» strengths and market differentiators, including their client base and key market trends • Ensure consistent implementation of key initiatives and recommend strategies to cross-sell to adjacency practice areas • Recommend and help develop tactical marketing and business development plans • Collaborate with other members of the marketing
team to ensure consistent messaging of practice group strengths in written materials, including website content
Miriam is a member of the
leadership team of Major, Lindsey & Africa, the world's most prominent search and consulting firm focused on placement of
lawyers.
Our
lawyers and staff work as a team together under the leadership of Paul Harte, one of the most well - known and respected medical malpractice trial lawyers in Canada, designated by his peers in L'Expert and listed in Best L
lawyers and staff work as a
team together under the
leadership of Paul Harte, one of the most well - known and respected medical malpractice trial
lawyers in Canada, designated by his peers in L'Expert and listed in Best L
lawyers in Canada, designated by his peers in L'Expert and listed in Best
LawyersLawyers.
If you are a top - tier litigator, you know that good managerial
leadership is a necessity to a winning trial
team no matter how intelligent your
lawyers may be.
The strength of our
lawyers» sector knowledge coupled with strong
leadership, good project management and a
team approach helps our clients achieve their commercial objectives.
At different levels of the organization in Canada we have
lawyers who are seen not only in their legal capacity but as a contributor to the
leadership team, so whether that be on a particular project or business unit or on a committee with a joint venture.
In so doing, they will also hone the skills needed for 21st century
lawyering, namely
teaming,
leadership, creative problem solving, entrepreneurship, cultural competency, social networking, project management, and business acumen.
As the work extends from a single
lawyer to a legal
team, the need for stronger process and highly developed
leadership skills become even more critical.
Many of these moves have been initiated by the legal group's
leadership team; this is welcomed by the lines of business who value the skills a
lawyer brings to the
team.
Some of this is a reflection of the practices of many of those within corporations — as key members of the
leadership teams of our organizations, we are available to our organizations when they need us and we need that from our external
lawyers.
Apart from her remarkable achievements to improve the operation of Home Depot's legal department in the form of hiring a
team of talented
lawyers, introducing fixed fee arrangements for work with outside counsel and creating templates, checklists and training decks for a number of business lines, Qadeer has also become a valued and vocal part of the senior
leadership team on issues beyond legal.
It goes without saying that having a
lawyer and the noble hacker guy who tried to quit out in front is not the most flattering look for a company so synonymous with its
leadership team, namely Zuckerberg and Sandberg.