EDITORIAL: Making life easier!
Professional athletes have coaches. Company bosses have coaches. Only the top lawyers do not have coaches?
Anyone who performs at a high level of efficiency is under enormous pressure to perform in a high-performance law firm (in English these are not called High Performance Work Systems for nothing). “In addition” he also has to cultivate his social environment and lead employees, address customers and seek new business opportunities. And these are the ones who don’t have coaches? When we launched the “AdvoCoach” brand 19 years ago, we were often told that lawyers “don’t need” them. In the meantime, that has changed, but many, too many in our view, have not yet discovered for themselves the advantage of making their lives easier through self-reflection. As a specialist in the law firm market, we could cite one or two examples where we could make a difference.
Christoph H. Vaagt was interviewed by the Handelsblatt on the topic: “Women as partners in law firms”. The article was published on 4.12.2017. In doing so, he corrected the often repeated but wrong perception that law firms are “bastions of male dominance”. In many law
Thursday, 5 October 2017 until Saturday, 7 October 2017
Christoph H. Vaagt, together with David Morley, Senior Partner of Allen & Overy, chaired the event of the Law Firm Management Section of the IBA at the annual meeting in Boston, USA, which took place from 6 – 11 October 2013. They called on the
November 2014: Christoph H. Vaagt spoke at the annual meeting of the CICERO network in Vienna about marketing options for networks of law firms.
Lecture on the topic: “The change in the business model of law firms due to technological change.
Information of not-yet or just-new-partners of law firms about the basics of financing of law firms.
Christoph H. Vaagt contributed the chapter on the management of law firms to this book of forms, which covers all aspects of running a law firm. With the help of checklists and forms, supplemented by further information, the partner of a law firm is enabled
For the first time, a collection of forms is made available to the legal departments, which concerns the management of the entire legal department.
An investigation of the market of commercial law firms in Germany with regard to market segments, success factors and challenges.
Eine Untersuchung des Marktes der Wirtschaftskanzleien in Deutschland hinsichtlich Marktsegmente, Erfolgsfaktoren und Herausforderungen
In the new book by the IBA Law Firm Management Committee “Making the sale, Clinching the deal”, edited by Stephen Revell, partner at Freshfields in the Singapore office, Thorsten Zulauf has written an article on business development in law firms, both as a function and
Overview of the challenges and opportunities of the next millennium for general counsels in a global economy; with contributions from Kent Walker (CLO Google), Peter Kurer (ex-CLO and CEO of UBS), Paul Lippe (LegalOnRamp) etc.
