Slides from Seattle
I'm in beautiful Seattle at present for the US Association of Legal Administrator's 37th Annual Educational Conference and Exposition. Yesterday, I took a small group of experienced law firm managers (including one from Nigeria and another from Brazil) through a very intensive workshop on how law firm managers might best cope with the challenges of this "globalized world" that we find ourselves in today. We looked at global trends and then focused in specifically on international cultural differences, how those relate to profitability drivers in law firms, and finally how firms might manage cultural differences so as to allow and even encourage cultural diversity, while keeping a core of profitability-driving cultural attributes in place. We ended the workshop with a case study featuring a hypothetical US law firm looking to establish business operations in China.
This morning and again tomorrow morning, I was also asked to present my now quite widely known session: "The World and the Legal Profession in the 21st Century."
As promised, PDF handouts of the slides are attached below. Please feel free to download them.
Download 1: A Brief History of Humanity - The Last 5000 Years
Download 2: The World and the US Legal Profession in the 21st Century
If you would like larger slides, please email me. The larger files are too big to upload to my blog but I'd be happy to email you a version with 2 slides to a page instead.
In addition, the slides of the Managing Partners Forum research project on strategy in law vs CPA firms and UK vs US firms may be found by clicking here.
Hope you find them useful!
Stunning photo of a great city! Hope you're enjoying it.