Law firms face unique organizational, managerial, and business issues. Featuring contributions from both legal practitioners and management researchers, this book presents insights from Management Studies, and is useful for lawyers involved directly and indirectly with the management of law firms.

Law firms face unique organizational, managerial, and business issues, such as the role of partners, new practice development, payment systems, the value of legal knowledge, career development, and competitive advantage. Successfully meeting these challenges is vital for the prosperity of law firms. Featuring contributions from both legal practitioners and management reserachers, "Managing Law Firms" seeks to present the latest insights from Management Studies in an approachable, practical, and relevant manner for lawyers involved directly and indirectly with the management of law firms.

• Preface
• Introduction and Overview
• 1. Your Job: Balancing the Competing Roles of the Producer-Owner-Manager
• 2. Your Expertise: Creating and Developing New Practices in Law Firms
• 3. Your Fees and Your Compenation: Questioning Conventional Methods of Purchasing Legal Knowledge
• 4. Your Relationships and Your Reputation: Developing and Exploiting the Value of Networks
• 5. Your Capital: Identifying and Increasing Organizational Wealth
• 6. Your People: Making the Most of Diversity
• 7. Your Competitors: Identifying What Makes Great Law Firms Great
• 8. You and Your Firm: Developing and Changing a Lawyer's Organizational Identity
• Academic Commentary
• Practitioner Commentary

...a valuable collection of essays...check out the book The American Lawyer The publication of Managing the Modern Law Firm marks something of a seminal moment in the development of management theory in this market. For the first time... academic and professional heavyweights have faced up to the scale and unique complexity of law firm management. The Times It looks a real winner. Edward Fennell, The Times (Law) d 06/02/2007 While most lawyers admire sound organisation, they regard the discipline of management with considerable mistrust. These management sceptics would do better to immerse themselves in a different book Managing the Modern Law Firm, edited by Laura Empson... This is a rich and stimulating blend of practical insight, scholarly analysis, historical narrative, and solid empirical research, written by an impressive array of leading experts. Richard Susskind, The Times