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Research: How Bias Against Women Persists in Female-Dominated Workplaces
Gender Digital ArticleA look inside the ongoing barriers women face in law, health care, faith-based nonprofits, and higher education. -
What Professional Service Firms Must Do to Thrive
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleDuring economic slowdowns, consulting, law, and accounting firms often start offering services and taking on clients they really shouldn't, just to keep... -
Points of Law: Unbundling Corporate Legal Services to Unlock Value
Government policy and regulation Magazine ArticleTraditionally, big law firms and corporate legal departments have enjoyed a close relationship—one that is based on both trust and regulation. Clients rely on firms to discern legal boundaries and the risks associated with misjudging them; counsel are under a professional obligation to identify and raise potential problems and to handle them competently and thoroughly. […] -
Getting Your Team to Buy into a Big Change
Change management Digital ArticleResearchers studied backlash to change at five elite law firms — and how leadership eventually won the skeptics over. -
Why Women and People of Color in Law Still Hear "You Don't Look Like a Lawyer"
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleInterviews with black female lawyers shed new light on the obstacles they face. -
Collaborating Well in Large Global Teams
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleIt starts with a clear shared objective. -
Better Sales Networks
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleAnyone in sales will tell you that social networks are critical. The more contacts you have, the more leads you'll generate and, ultimately, the more... -
When Fandom Clashes with IP Law
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleShould companies control all the ways people experience art? -
Putting Products into Services
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleHigh-end professional services firms, unlike product companies, traditionally experience only linear revenue growth. That's because selling more services... -
Female Supreme Court Justices Are Interrupted More by Male Justices and Advocates
Gender Digital ArticleWomen have adapted by being less polite themselves.
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Riverview Law: Applying Business Sense to the Legal Market
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Riverview Law, run like a business rather than a traditional law firm, wants to expand its unconventional concept from the UK to the US. The firm's approach... -
Shanghai Diligence Law Firm (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Shanghai Diligence Law Firm continued with its approach to grow through a merger, rather than organically, and was eventually merged into a bigger law... -
Evisort: An A.I.-Powered Start-up Uses Text Mining to Become Google for Contracts
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Start-up Evisort was cofounded by two law students seeking to create AI-enhanced software providing contract management and processing solutions for attorneys... -
Chung and Dasgupta: Information for Jordan Ramirez
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details The "Promotion Process at Chung and Dasgupta, LLP" set of cases explores the roles of general and firm-specific human capital in employee performance... -
Baker & McKenzie (A): A New Framework for Talent Management
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Describes the process by which the largest law firm in the world developed a unique framework for personnel management. In 2004, John Conroy is about... -
Disrupting Justice at RightNow: Persevere, Pivot or Perish
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The case examines the focus of an early stage company, and how an unexpected external incidence can threaten or void the business model. It encompasses... -
Mossack Fonseca: Panama Papers
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Mossack Fonseca, a Panama-based law firm, specializes in Corporate Law, fiduciary services, investment advice, and international business. In April 2016,... -
Patriot National Insurance Co.: Case and Simulation
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Designed to be used in conjunction with Byrnes, Byrnes & Townsend. Discusses a suit brought by a woman client who was badly injured in an automobile accident... -
Fangda Partners: A Step Ahead
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Elite Chinese law firm Fangda Partners has steered Alibaba and other Chinese and international clients through the complex legal, corporate, and regulatory... -
CEO Activism (A)
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details This case introduces CEO activism, a phenomenon in which business leaders engage in political or social issues that do not relate directly to their companies.... -
Lee and Li, Attorneys-at-Law and the Embezzlement of NT$3 Billion by Eddie Liu (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Dr. C.V. Chen learned that one of Lee and Li's senior legal assistants had illegally sold a client's shares in a Taiwanese company and sneaked out of... -
Brainard, Bennis & Farrell (A)
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details A law firm must decide how to split partnership profits among the partners. Issues of seniority versus performance, performance evaluation, and lack of... -
Sloan & Harrison: Non-Equity Partner Discontent, Spanish Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The law firm, Sloan & Harrison, was dealing with some discontent among its junior non-equity partners. These partners were concerned with the transparency... -
CaiHong: Combining Legal Services and the Internet
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Shanghai Jiujia Information Technology Co., Ltd. (CaiHong) was founded in April 2015 by entrepreneur Junyuan Huang. The company has transitioned from... -
Shanghai Diligence Law Firm, Chinese Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Shanghai Diligence Law Firm, started in January 2006, is a rapidly growing law firm in China's burgeoning legal services market. In addition to the usual... -
Wayne Eisener's Career Choice
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Wayne Eisener has received two job offers. The first offer is an executive vice-president position at Richmond Hill Mortgages (RHM). The second offer... -
People Management, The Mantra for Success: The Case of Singhania and Partners
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The case is about HR practices at Singhania and Partners, one of the largest full-service national law firms in India. People are at the core of the services... -
Give Us a 'C'! Killing Knock-offs with Copyright?
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Varsity Brands, the leading manufacturer of cheerleading uniforms in the U.S., obtained copyright protection for certain designs of stripes, chevrons,... -
Three Problems in Protecting Competition
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In three mini-cases, readers see a range of disputes in competition law -- and apply legal principles to assure fair competition. -
Byrnes, Byrnes & Townsend: Case and Simulation
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Designed to be used in conjunction with Patriot National Insurance Co. Discusses a suit brought by a woman client who was badly injured in an automobile...
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Research: How Bias Against Women Persists in Female-Dominated Workplaces
Gender Digital ArticleA look inside the ongoing barriers women face in law, health care, faith-based nonprofits, and higher education. -
What Professional Service Firms Must Do to Thrive
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleDuring economic slowdowns, consulting, law, and accounting firms often start offering services and taking on clients they really shouldn't, just to keep... -
Riverview Law: Applying Business Sense to the Legal Market
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Riverview Law, run like a business rather than a traditional law firm, wants to expand its unconventional concept from the UK to the US. The firm's approach... -
Shanghai Diligence Law Firm (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Shanghai Diligence Law Firm continued with its approach to grow through a merger, rather than organically, and was eventually merged into a bigger law... -
Evisort: An A.I.-Powered Start-up Uses Text Mining to Become Google for Contracts
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Start-up Evisort was cofounded by two law students seeking to create AI-enhanced software providing contract management and processing solutions for attorneys... -
Chung and Dasgupta: Information for Jordan Ramirez
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details The "Promotion Process at Chung and Dasgupta, LLP" set of cases explores the roles of general and firm-specific human capital in employee performance... -
Baker & McKenzie (A): A New Framework for Talent Management
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Describes the process by which the largest law firm in the world developed a unique framework for personnel management. In 2004, John Conroy is about... -
Disrupting Justice at RightNow: Persevere, Pivot or Perish
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The case examines the focus of an early stage company, and how an unexpected external incidence can threaten or void the business model. It encompasses... -
Mossack Fonseca: Panama Papers
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Mossack Fonseca, a Panama-based law firm, specializes in Corporate Law, fiduciary services, investment advice, and international business. In April 2016,... -
Patriot National Insurance Co.: Case and Simulation
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Designed to be used in conjunction with Byrnes, Byrnes & Townsend. Discusses a suit brought by a woman client who was badly injured in an automobile accident...