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Writing on how leadership actually works inside a law firm. Practical rather than inspirational, and specific to partnerships rather than adapted from a corporate setting.
Leading Former Peers: A Practice Group Leader’s Guide
Practice group leadership comes with responsibility and almost no authority. Six situations that recur, and the language that works in each.
Your First 90 Days as a Practice Group Leader
A 30/60/90 sequence. What to do, in what order, what not to touch yet, and the failure mode nobody warns about.
How to Choose an Executive Coach: A Guide for Law Firm Partners
What the credentials mean, what the research actually shows, what it costs, and the confidentiality question to ask before your firm pays.
In Progress
Pieces being written next: what partners get wrong about feedback, why delegation is a trust problem rather than a time problem, why firms lose partners they meant to keep, and the longer argument that the well-being versus performance framing has it backwards.
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