Reading Time: 2 minutes | by Heather Townsend | Updated Sep 5, 2017
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...
Reading Time: 3 minutes | by Heather Townsend | Updated Sep 5, 2017
The partner track process will assess both your personal case and business case for partnership. The Big 4 and large law firms will typically assessed formally both your personal and business case. However, the smaller or mid-tier firms may only formally assess your...
Reading Time: < 1 by Heather Townsend | Updated Feb 3, 2018
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...
Reading Time: < 1 by Heather Townsend | Updated Jul 30, 2018
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 fact, this tool is probably the most important tool you can use when on partner track (or if you want to get onto...
Reading Time: < 1 by Heather Townsend | Updated Aug 3, 2018
Over the last few months I have been helping the delegates on the Poised for Partnership Programme with their Business Cases. Many of the delegates have been putting together their Big 4 Partner Business Case. This article summarises what I learnt from this...
Reading Time: 2 minutes | by Heather Townsend | Updated Sep 5, 2017
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...
