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Leadership in Practice: Strategies to Meet Partnership Demands and Adapt to Changing Firm Needs

Course Description:

What kind of leader are you? Are you a positional leader? That’s the person in the firm who tells people what to do and it gets done because they control the environment.

Nothing wrong with that right? You’re getting the job done.  Well, that’s fear driven leadership and it’s not necessarily the right approach.

Great firm leaders (both formal and informal) have a driving passion to realize the firm’s vision. They don’t allow events or circumstances to dictate what will happen to them. They build and maintain relationships based on trust and create opportunities to help everyone in the firm be more tomorrow than they are today.

CoursE highlights:

During this must-attend audio conference, partners, leaders (and those on the partnership track) will learn which leadership, management, business development, and team management issues are critical today, and how to tackle each head on, with practical, tried and true leadership techniques.

It’s designed for law firm partners who know that being competitive means mastering the skills and techniques that meet daily partnership demands, adapt to changing firm and client needs, and effectively motivate at the firm and practice level.

During this information-packed session, you will learn: 

• Formal and informal leadership roles, duties and expectations
• Best practices for being an effective role model (lead by example) and mentor
• How to create opportunities for your team to be more effective, and client-focused
• Techniques to sustain and adapt to change through leadership
• How to lead with a focus on firm culture, cooperation and innovation
• Challenges to identifying emerging leaders
• Why communication is crucial and how to make internal communications more  strategic

FACulty:

Joel A. Rose, Certified Management Consultant and President, Joel A. Rose & Associates, Inc.

Joel A. Rose is a Certified Management Consultant and President of Joel A. Rose & Associates, Inc., management consultants to the legal profession. The firm, national in scope, is headquartered in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

Mr. Rose received a B.S. from New York University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton Graduate School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. He has extensive experience consulting with private law firms, corporate law departments and government agencies. Mr. Rose performs and directs consulting assignments in law firm management and organization, strategic and financial planning, lawyer compensation, the feasibility of mergers and acquisitions and marketing of legal services. He has extensive experience planning and conducting retreats and special expertise resolving problems among and between lawyers.

Mr. Rose is a guest columnist on law office management and economics for the New York Law Journal and has had numerous articles published in the Philadelphia Legal Intelligencer, the Pennsylvania Law Weekly, the New Jersey Law Journal, The Law Firm, Inc., chapter publications of the Association of Legal Administrators and other state and local bar association journals. Mr. Rose is a contributing author of the book, Model Partnership Agreements for New York Law Firms, published by the New York State Bar Association and of the monograph The Quality Pursuit, Assuring Standards in the Practice of Law, published by the American Bar Association.

Mr. Rose is on the Board of Editors of Accounting and Financial Planning for Law Firms and Law Firm Partnership and Benefits Report. He Chairs the Finance and Management Subcommittee of the Law Practice Management Section of the New York State Bar Association and the Continuing Legal Education Committee of the New York State Bar Association. Mr. Rose is a member of the Law Practice Committee of the American Bar Association and the coordinator and moderator of the Annual Conference & Workshops on Law Firm Management & Economics.

David Cruickshank, Partner, Edge International

David advises law and other professional services firms on practice management, strategy, governance, leadership development and talent retention strategies. He works with managing partners, professional development directors and partners, and hiring partners to convert training to a strategic advantage of the firm. David creates customized programs on leadership, time management, project management, delegation, feedback and business development skills.

David has also worked on partner development in AmLaw top 50 firms. He has designed customized partner-level courses for many AmLaw 200 firms.

He has worked as a training consultant in top firms in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States since 1990. He is well known academically in the field of legal skills education. He currently teaches as an adjunct at the Pepperdine Law School master’s program and is a frequent conference speaker.

David was recently a consultant at KermaPartners and before that, Director of Professional Development at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison in New York. He has a master’s degree in law from Harvard Law School. His law degree and B.A. were earned at the University of Western Ontario. David is based in New York City.

MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE:

We're so confident you'll get what you want out of this conference that we'll refund every penny if you're not completely satisfied. No questions asked! It's 100% risk-free!

Pricing:

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Your CD recording includes the complete audio conference presentation, audience Q&A and presentation materials.

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