Laura Empson (ed.)

Managing the Modern Law Firm

New Challenges, New Perspectives
Herausgeber: Empson, Laura

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Featuring contributions from both legal practitioners and management researchers, Managing the Modern Law Firm 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 162mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780199296743
• ISBN-10: 019929674X
• Artikelnr.: 22236374

Autorenporträt

Laura Empson is Professor in the Management of Professional Services Firms at Cass Business School, City of London, and was previously Director of the Clifford Chance Centre at Said Business School, University of Oxford. Her research has focused on a wide range of issues in accounting, consulting and law firms, including the organizational implications of strategic change, managing the post-merger integration process, overcoming impediments to knowledge-sharing among professionals, changing organizational and professional identities, and the governance of professional service firms. Prior to becoming an academic, Laura Empson worked for several years as an investment banker and strategy consultant and continues to act as a consultant to professional service firms. She has a PhD and MBA from London Business School.

Inhaltsangabe

* Prologue
* 1: Laura Empson and Stuart Popham: Introduction and Overview
* 2: Laura Empson: Your Partnership: Surviving and Thriving in a
Changing World: The Special Nature of Partnership
* 3: David Wilkins: Your People: Valuing Diversity: Some Cautionary
Tales from the American Experience
* 4: Heidi Gardner, Tim Morris, and N. Anand: Your Expertise:
Developing New Practices: Recipes for Success
* 5: Brian Uzzi, Ryon Lancaster, and Shannon Dunlap: Your Client
Relationships and Reputation: Weighing the Worth of Social Ties:
Embeddedness and the Price of Legal Services in the Large Law Firm
Market
* 6: Huseyin Leblebici: Your Income: Determining the Value of Legal
Knowledge: Billing and Compensation Practices in Law Firms
* 7: Stephen Mayson: Your Capital: Building Sustainable Value: A
Capital Idea
* 8: Peter D. Sherer: Your Competitors: Mapping the Competitive Space
of Large US Law Firms: A Strategic Group Perspective
* 9: Royston Greenwood: Your Ethics: Redefining Professionalism? The
Impact of Management Change
* 10: Tony Angel: Your Challenge: Sustaining Partnership in the 21st
Century: The Global Law Firm Experience