John Chisholm

Commentators have argued for many years that law firms need to move forward from their traditional, seniority-based compensation systems. But it's not enough to simply add performance-related elements at the edges of these. Shifting generational-based attitudes; changing career aspirations; increasingly demanding clients; and pricing innovation and development in the range of benefits that can be offered (both financial and non-financial) all conspire to urge firms to rethink how their compensation system operates at all levels, across the whole firm. By reviewing these emerging factors, Compensation Innovation: An in-depth exploration into the future of law firm compensation aims to inspire law firms towards future proofing their compensation systems so that they continue to deliver results as their partnerships age. Exploring also the interplay between compensation and succession planning, and compensation and lateral hiring, the authors keep one eye to the future.

The COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly had a seismic and lasting impact on how the business of law is conducted. Whilst 2020 certainly expedited changes that were already trending – flexible work schedules, fully-remote offices, revised resource allocations, new client expectations – it also forced firms to adopt practices, methodologies, and strategies that pre-COVID they insisted they could not. These changes are not only here to stay but have become the expectation. Law firm attorneys, staff, and indeed clients are no longer interested in a traditional office, nor the practices that typically occurred within them. The modern law firm needs to evolve with both employee and consumer expectations in order to stay abreast with the post-pandemic world. The Post-Pandemic Law Firm looks at how law firms can make a paradigm shift, adopting an entirely new business model that focuses on providing outcomes, outputs, and results to their clients and internally places the wellbeing of their team as a cornerstone to the future long-term success and sustainability of the legal profession. Chapters include changes to business models, virtual and remote working, how the pandemic has affected women in the profession, the future of dispute resolution, M&A activity and changes to pricing models – all authored by highly respected practitioners in the modern legal system. For those law firms leaders and lawyers that realize a ‘return to normal’ is exactly the wrong approach, there is an opportunity to create a brighter future where work–life balance, market innovation, and smart use of technology will define the law firm of the future.

Unleash Your Inner Company distills John Chisholm's four decades of successful entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley into ten steps to discover, launch, and scale the ideal business for you. You will learn how to: - Mobilize your passions and perseverance to reinforce each other and achieve your goals - Discover unsatisfied human and customer needs in those areas where you have natural advantages - Match those needs with your resources and strengths (your "STARS") to assess which needs fit you best - Improve those fits by acquiring and developing the right resources and strengths; differentiate yourself by being not better, but different, from competitors, even well-established ones - Innovate by combining things you already know in novel ways - Partner with firms and individuals so you and your business can focus on what you do best - Evaluate your options and choose the best one for you - Launch and scale up your successful business, uniquely tailored to you and your strengths. Along the way, you will discover: - That you have many more resources and advantages for success than you realize - How and when to choose a co-founder and team members - How to avoid competitors, and thus gain time and space to get established - How to find, nurture, and ride positive feedback loops within yourself, with your team members, and among your customers - How to build and maintain your self-confidence despite setbacks - If, when, and how to raise money - How to evolve and scale your business, no matter how modest, into a large enterprise, if you so desire - When to comply with, or circumvent, or oppose regulations that impede the formation or growth of your business - What you can learn from Apple, Google, Facebook, and Uber. You will learn from the author's mistakes--as many as he was able to squeeze into the 400 pages of this book--so you don't make the same ones. Regardless of your background, location, interests, and passions, the timeless and universal insights, principles, anecdotes, and exercises of Unleash Your Inner Company will inspire and guide you from your first steps, through every kind of obstacle, to the ultimate success of your venture.

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