The 2 essential components that your Business Case for partner or director as a lateral hire needs
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The 2 essential components that your Business Case for partner or director as a lateral hire needs

Over the last few months I’ve been reviewing lateral hire Business Cases for people who want to join a Big 4 firm or large firm as a lateral hire at director or partner. Any Big 4, or large international accounting or law firm will want to have a lateral hire Business Case before they hire…

The 6 premises for every Business Case for partnership
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The 6 premises for every Business Case for partnership

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, writing a stronger and more persuasive Business Case becomes much easier. Read on to help you identify what…

Prepare successfully for your partner panel interview – 6 tried and tested tips
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Prepare successfully for your partner panel interview – 6 tried and tested tips

Partner Panel Interviews within many of the Big 4 firms start in the UK start in the summer months, and then continue on for potentially another 9 months. It’s a similar time scale for many Big 4 firms worldwide. I.e. each person on Partner Track will undertake multiple Partner Panel Interviews. Often over a period…

Creating a Business Case for partnership in a Big 4 firm? Don’t fall into this trap
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Creating a Business Case for partnership in a Big 4 firm? Don’t fall into this trap

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….

3 reasons your very strong Business Case for partnership was rejected
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3 reasons your very strong Business Case for partnership was rejected

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…

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…

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

Asking an older partner about their succession – 4 great tips
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Asking an older partner about their succession – 4 great tips

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?”…

4 important things I learnt recently when helping craft Business Cases for partnership
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4 important things I learnt recently when helping craft Business Cases for partnership

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…

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