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What is more important; your Personal or Business Case for partnership?
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What is more important; your Personal or Business Case for partnership?

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…

Tips for presenting your Business Case at your partnership panel interview
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Tips for presenting your Business Case at your partnership panel interview

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…

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This is the most important tool you can use to talk about your Business Case for partnership

Over the last few years I 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). I’m Heather Townsend,…

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How to make partner lesson 8 – treat your practice like a business

In summer 2016 Heather Townsend revealed the 10 lessons that every potential partner needs to learn to an audience of 200 lawyers and accountants. In this short 2-minute video clip, Heather talks through the eighth lesson – the importance of treating your practice like a business. In this series of 10 lessons, I’m going to shine a light…

The reason why NOW is the right time to start working on your business case for partner
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The reason why NOW is the right time to start working on your business case for 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 tenth and final lesson; starting working towards your partner…

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Treat your practice like a business if you want to get to 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.  I’m Heather…

How to identify if perception is the root cause of your inability to win business
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How to identify if perception is the root cause of your inability to win business

I had an interesting conversation today where perception was at the heart of the conversation. Here is how the conversation went: Them: One man bands really don’t want to put their hands into their wallets and buy business coaching. That’s why I need to target larger corporates Me: Actually we find the opposite. Small businesses,…

The 4 most common (and damaging) mistakes lawyers make with their business case for partnership
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The 4 most common (and damaging) mistakes lawyers make with their business case for partnership

Your business case to make partner in a law firm In this article, I share the common mistakes I see in business cases for a partner in a law firm. Whilst these are largely similar to the mistakes made by other professionals in practice, a few crop up time and time again in lawyers’ business…

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What data do you need in your Business Case for partnership?

What makes a strong Business Case for partner? The best and most effective partnership Business Cases continually verify and quantify all the statements within them. In this article, I discuss what data is required and how to use it to strengthen your Business Case for partner in your firm What is your evidence that you…

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