- The importance of ensuring the firm’s partner remuneration system, metrics and procedures are clearly documented within the LLP Agreement and any associated policies and allow for a
NDAs: What are the issues for Firms? – Ten-Minute Talk
Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) are most often considered relevant in relation to employees. But how do they apply in the context of firms?
In the next of CM Murray LLP’s Ten-Minute Talk series, Partner and General Counsel Beth Hale and Partner Corinne Staves discuss NDAs, with a particular focus on the key issues arising in
Partner Performance Management and Remuneration Systems: Under-Rewarded High-Flyers and Over-Rewarded Under-Performers – Professional Practices Alliance Webinar Recording
There are many ways of dealing with the dual challenges of under rewarded high flyers and over rewarded under performers. Making sure that reward and performance systems are right is critical to the growth strategy of a firm.
In the first webinar of the Professional Practices Alliance Growth Strategy Webinar series, Chair Zulon Begum,
Partner Performance Management and Remuneration Systems – Poll Results
Results from one of the polls during this week’s webinar, ‘Partner Performance Management and Remuneration Systems: Under-Rewarded High-Flyers & Over-Rewarded Under-Performers’, with the majority of attendees stating that their partner profit allocation system deals with ‘high-flyers’ “well enough”, and 29% agreeing their system deals with them “very well”.
If you missed the webinar, the recording
Partner Performance Management and Remuneration Systems: Under-Rewarded High-Flyers & Over-Rewarded Under-Performers – PPA Webinar
We are delighted to invite you to the Professional Practices Alliance (PPA) discussion, ‘Partner Performance Management and Remuneration Systems – Under-Rewarded High-Flyers and Over-Rewarded Under-Performers’ on Wednesday, 20 April 2022. Join our chair, Zulon Begum (CM Murray LLP), and expert panel, Beth Hale (CM Murray LLP), David Shufflebotham (Pep Up Consulting) and Corinne Staves (Maurice
Better Partner Performance and Review Decisions this Year?
Do you want to make sound, evidence based, decisions on partner performance and remuneration this year? Well, you’ll improve your chances if your RemCom members listen to this podcast on the psychology of good governance and decision making.
Listen out for:
- the role our most common cognitive biases play
- tips for making better judgments and
Partner Reviews and Compensation Decisions- Evaluating “Broader” Contributions
Do partner reviews, reward discussions and decisions fill you with dread?
In the third and final of my short posts designed to help leadership teams improve process and outcomes, I provide some tips on how to approach evaluating “broader” partner contributions. Those “hard to measure” contributions that fall outside short-term client service commitments and don’t
Delivering effective performance in “big jobs” vs a fulfilled life
Law firm leaders and advisers please read Alys Carlton‘s recent LinkedIn post. It is spot on.
Delivering effective performance in “big jobs” within a fulfilled life needs focus and determination.
Determination to actually to do less of something, to allow others to grow, and for you to find the head-space, time and energy
The Essential Roadmap to Effectively Managing Partner Performance
It is vital to the ongoing success of professional services firms that partner performance is actively and effectively monitored and managed. Getting it right is likely to lead to increased partner satisfaction, retention levels and firm profitability. Getting it wrong could give rise to disgruntled partners, avoidable departures, exposure to the risk of claims and
Large versus smaller law firms – a multi-faceted choice
Herewith an article that I co-authored with my old friend and colleague Hermann Knott, on the different experiences of practicing in a large law firm versus a small one. As the title observes, it’s a multi-faceted issue: