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You need to build your own business case for partnership. But, did you know that all business cases are typically built on one of six premises? When you know WHAT premise your business case is built upon, it becomes so much easier to write a stronger and more persuasive business case. Read on to help…
Over the next few months many of the Big 4 firms will be conducting partnership panel interviews for their candidates on partnership track and also partner panel interviews for their senior managers wanting to become directors. Therefore, in this blog post I will share 6 tips for how to prepare for your partnership panel interview…
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 a significant amount of your time. However, this mistake scuppered one of our client’s admission to partnership last year. Read on…
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…
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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 business case. The personal case will be assessed informally. The thing is…
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 their…
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 partnership track). In this blog post,…
John Moss and I were asked a cracking question in one of our regular “How To Become A Member Of The Club” webinars. “I’m taking the older partner out to breakfast to get him in my corner. Any tips for getting a road-map for his succession, and how I’m going to be part of it?”…
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 experience: Timescales are normally very tight I’ve always known that firms (even…
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