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If you are going to make partner (or even director in some firms) you will need a persuasive business case. After all not many partnerships are prepared to give up a slice of their profits to someone who is just a ‘good pair of hands’ or a trusted member of the team. The problem is…
Creating a persuasive and cast-iron business case for partnership in your law firm, consulting firm, Big 4, Accounting Firm or Magic Circle firm is probably the hardest part of making it through Partnership Track into the partnership. In fact, the biggest question I am asked by senior managers, directors, and senior associates is how to…
I’ve been chatting via email with a lawyer who is unexpectedly being put up for partner in the next few weeks. In an ideal world your business case will be written over a series of months after consulting with the great and good of the partnership. However, life doesn’t always work out like that! This…
When it comes to submitting your Business Case for Partnership, you are often given a form or proforma to fill in. In this blog post we cover our best tips to make your Business Case really stand out. This is especially important when you are forced into using a very restrictive format or document. Use…
Do you know the 4 things you should do before writing your business case? Don’t just sit down and start writing! In this post we are going to focus on what you need to do BEFORE you actually start writing your business case for partnership.Your business case needs to be built ideally 3 years out…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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