Review: Practical Guide – Legal Operations Management
The practical handbook Legal Operations Management was published by Springer in 2017. The editors, Roman P. Falter and Christian Dueblin, have compiled an impressively comprehensive work, which deals in eight sub-chapters with the challenges of legal operations, their identity, positioning and leadership, structures, resources and processes. Despite the involvement of various authors from practice and […]
Law Firm Management Profitable Clients café, IBA Rome Oct. 9, 2018
Which clients do we want, and how can we make sure they are profitable? This were the key questions discussed by over 180 lawyers form around the world at our profitable clients cafe at the IBA Annual conference in Rome, which Chris Vaagt facilitated with Michael Lund, a danish lawyers practising in Brazil This event […]
From science: “Turning Corporate Compliance into Competitive Advantage”
With the article: TURNING CORPORATE COMPLIANCE INTO COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE the US-American scientists Robert C. Bird and Stephen Kim Park show strategies to use compliance as a sustainable instrument for market positioning. Compliance is a core concern for corporate governance. Firms devote tremendous amounts of money, personnel, and attention to ensure compliance with regulatory mandates, and […]
Switzerland is difficult terrain for foreign law firms
As a long-standing observer of the Swiss law firm market, Christoph H. Vaagt was interviewed on the question of how the market will develop.
IBA Balkan Legal Forum Vienna, June 15-16, 2018
At the 10th IBA event Christoph H. Vaagt spoke on the question of the need for change in the development of law firms.
Michael Gassmann of “Die Welt” on the subject: Now patent attorneys themselves need inventive talent
Michael Gassmann writes about the future of patent attorneys.
Events: Legal Transformation Days 2018
June 18 and 19, 2018: Vienna House Andel’s Berlin The Legal Transformation Days are a practice-oriented event that addresses the growing challenges facing lawyers. The core question is: Who makes demands on Legal Tech? How must law firms and legal departments position themselves today in order to be able to react quickly and flexibly to […]
Handelsblatt: Executive seeks wife, by Kevin Knitterscheidt
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 firms below the top 200, there are many female lawyers […]
The way to the “ideal” small legal department – Economic use of the resource “law” in the company
Thursday, 5 October 2017 until Saturday, 7 October 2017
Legal Times Online: Fatal consequences of mistakes
Sabine Olscher interviewed Christoph H. Vaagt on the error culture in law firms.
New approach to officers meeting in Belfast on Friday, May 26, 2017
Chris Vaagt was asked to redesign the meeting of IBA managers.
Customer event of the C.H. Beck Shop: Perspectives for law firms
Invitation of the C.H. Beck publishing house to the book presentation “Der Kanzleimarkt in Deutschland”.