Leadership for Lawyers: Essential Leadership Strategies for Law Firm Success, 2nd Edition

Author: Rebecca Normand-Hochman
Publisher: Globe Law and Business
ISBN: 9781787422865

Previous Edition ISBN: 9781909416789
Published In: August 2019
Format: Hardback , 180 pages
Jurisdiction: International ? Disclaimer:
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Law firm leaders must do more than react to change: they must anticipate market dynamics and create a culture that allows their lawyers and their firm to proactively shape the environment. Law firms face unprecedented complexity, increased competition and demands for transformation, yet, lawyers’ taste for autonomy and their need for intellectual challenge makes leading them especially demanding. As a result, leaders must ensure they have the right skills including the ability to listen, coach, innovate and support change. This second edition, coordinated by Rebecca Normand-Hochman and Dr Heidi K Gardner on behalf of the International Bar Association, explores the crucial elements of law firm leadership. New and updated chapters by prominent experts in the field include:

Leading partners to collaborate: featuring case studies and research to support behavioural change efforts, this new chapter highlights how lawyers’ unique personality profile can inhibit change – and how leaders can productively manage this obstacle.
Leading the M&A process: having helped both smaller domestic and massive global law firms to successfully complete combinations, the authors reveal the critical steps leaders need to follow to gain partners’ commitment to the hard work ahead.
Leadership succession: based on work with 150 law firms, this new chapter contains checklists and tools to help handle typical ‘pain points’, such as incentivising partners to cede control.

Further chapters address how to lead productive business development efforts, global and virtual teams, the Millennial generation, and much more. Providing insights and practical guidance, this edition demonstrates how law firm leaders can enhance their leadership capabilities, whether their firms are small or large, domestic or global. Additionally, it is a vital resource for developing talent in legal professionals and consultants. Further, by highlighting the benefits of developing leadership skills early on, the book will be of interest to junior lawyers seeking to develop their careers.

Leading behavioural change by Rebecca Normand Hochman of Institute of Mentoring, Heidi K Gardner of Harvard Law School and Larry Richards of LawyerBrain LLC

Leading in the digital age by Herminia Ibarra of London Business School

Leadership succession by Susan Duncan of Rainmaking Oasis, LLC

Leading the BD function by Deborah Farone of Farone Advisers LLC

Leading the M&A process by Peter Zeughauser and Kent Zimmermann of Zeughauser Group

Authentic gravitas for lawyers by Rebecca Newton of LSE

Leading through strategy by Mariano Batalla and Jaime Fernandez Madero of Fernandez Madero Consulting

Leading the younger generation by Alexis Caught and Kevin Doolan of Moller Institute

Leading virtual global teams by Mark Mortensen of INSEAD

Leading post-merger integration by Jennifer Emery of CMS

Learning to lead by Scott Westfahl of Harvard Law School

Hiring leaders by Heidi K Gardner of Harvard Law School

Consulting editor: Rebecca Normand-Hochman; Advisory editor: Heidi Gardner on behalf of the International Bar Association

Contributing firm	Author(s)

Argentina
Fernández Madero Consulting (FMC)	Jaime Fernández Madero
England
Cass Business School	Laura Empson
Thornbury Consulting Associates	Jan Thornbury
France
Institute of Mentoring	Rebecca Normand-Hochman
Christopher Bockmann	Christopher Bockmann
Insead	Mark Mortensen
Netherlands
Venturis Consulting Group	Gerard Tanja
Singapore
Insead	Henrik Bresman
USA
Harvard Law School	Heidi K Gardner
	Samantha Sheehan
	Scott Westfahl
Harvard University Faculty of Arts & Sciences	Cory Way
Heidrick & Struggles	Stuart H Sadick
Zeughauser Group	Peter Zeughauser

This book offers deep insights and practical recommendations on a range of crucial leadership topics. It’s a must-read for any law firm leader facing tough challenges.

Roger Meltzer
Global Co-chairman, DLA Piper

This book is a very timely and high quality contribution to a subject of fundamental importance to the future success of law firms and those who are responsible for delivering that success.

Neville Eisenberg
Senior Partner, Berwin Leighton Paisner

Review for 'Mentoring and Coaching for Lawyers', also edited by Rebecca Normand Hochman: 'This is a concentrated burst of thoughtful analysis and practical pointers. Self-contained chapters draw on the insights and experience of a credible cross-section of specialists in talent development'.

Stephanie Abbott
Mayer Brown