Serving at the Pleasure of My Partners: Advice to the New Firm Leader

Serving at the Pleasure of My Partners: Advice to the New Firm Leader provides straightforward guidance about your tenure as manager – your leadership style, compensation, time management, and responsibilities – and the people you manage. Benefit from the cumulative experience of a select group of law firm leaders, the Managing Partner's Leadership Advisory Board, who came together to help create this book. Find answers to tough questions, such as:

• How do you follow a well-loved and successful firm leader?
• When your firm is under duress, how do you keep up morale?
• How do you overcome an “us and them” mentality within the firm?
• What kinds of performance standards should be in place?
• How can you better manage your time?
• How do you deal with complacency or a chronic complainer?

Features of this title include:

• Content built around real-life issues and questions
• Action-focused advice
• A survey that details where and how new leaders spend their time and a list of a dozen quick tips