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Given how hard it is to make partner in a Big 4 firm, you can be forgiven for making this mistake. Creating the perfect Big 4 Business Case for partner (or director) will take significant time. However, this mistake scuppered one of our client’s admission to the partnership last year. Read on for more details….
Over the last few years, a few of my clients have been rejected at the final hurdle for partner. Often through no direct fault of their own. In this blog post, I examine 3 reasons why your very strong Business Case for partnership was not enough to make partner this time around. Firm politics This…
The partner track process will assess both your Personal Case and Business Case for partnership. The Big 4 and large law firms will typically assess formally both your Personal and Business Case. However, the smaller or mid-tier firms may only formally assess your Business Case. The Personal Case will be assessed informally. It tends to…
You’ve poured your heart and soul into writing your Business Case for partnership. Your challenge is now to condense your ‘war and peace’ Business Case (and we have seen firms which literally require their partnership candidates to submit business cases which are over 50 pages long) into a 10-minute persuasive, engaging and impactful presentation for…
Over the last few years we have been advocating using a tool called a one-page Talk Sheet to communicate your Business Case for partnership in your firm. In fact, this tool is probably the most important tool you can use when on partner track (or if you want to get onto partnership track). In this…
In this blog article I discuss the financial implications of becoming a partner. For example, the buy-in process, how you get paid etc You will be asked to buy-in The process to become a partner is not just another promotion. It is where your partners trust you enough to have you as their business partner and…
We regularly help lawyers, accountants and consultants with their Business Cases for Partnership. This is often helping our clients put together their Big 4 Partner Business Case. This article summarises what I learnt from this experience: Timescales are normally very tight I’ve always known that firms (even Big 4 firms) have a habit of tapping…
I regularly speak to audiences of lawyers, accountants and consultants about the challenges of making partner. In my talks I often share the ten lessons that my clients have learnt along their journeys to make partner. In this blog post I am going to share the tenth and final lesson; starting working towards your partner…
I regularly speak to audiences of lawyers, accountants and consultants about the challenges of making partner. In my talks I often share the ten lessons that my clients have learnt along their journeys to make partner. In this blog post I am going to share the eighth lesson; treat your practice like a business. Profit…
We regularly speak to audiences of lawyers, accountants and consultants about the challenges of making partner. In our talks we share the 12 Key Indicators that they all need to work on as they progress along the partner track. One of the most important (and the first) of our Key Indicators if you want to…
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