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Maintaining Profitability in a Tough Economy: Understand the Risks and Finding New Strategies
Plan to join us for THE premier event for law firm COOs & CFOs focusing on the strategic investments necessary to meet client demands and maintain competitiveness and profitability in the continually changing legal market.
In recent years many law firms saw their profitability numbers remain constant or even increase during periods of declining market demand due to rigid expense management. Those days are gone, and in a world of flat demand, firms need to be looking at new ways to maintain profitable by leveraging resources in more effective and efficient ways and managing the risks associated with these changes.
Topics to be addressed include:
State of the Legal Market -- Where We Are and Where We Are Headed
Strategic Risks: How Firms Go Off the Rails
Macroeconomic Risks: Why All Firms Should Care about the Euro and Other Global Financial Crises
Finding New Strategies: Improving Legal Work Processes
Finding New Strategies: Leveraging the Firm's Human Capital
Keynote & Case Study
Heidi K. Gardner
Assitant, Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
Presented in an interactive case study and discussion format, Ms. Gardner will discuss her recent research into what makes a successful client team in a professional service firm. The discussion will consider the strategies available to law firms to improve the quality and consistency of client service and to incentivize and encourage the behaviors necessary to accomplish this result.
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The Westin New York at Times Square
270 West 43rd Street
New York, NY 10036
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Reservation Cut-Off Date & Rate: All rooms must be booked prior to October 1, 2012 to obtain the group rate of $395/night plus taxes. Rooms are subject to availability.
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Practice Areas: Course Format: Live Conference Date: 10/25/2012 - 10/26/2012 Category: Premium Duration: 12 Hours, 15 Minutes Schedule 10/25/2012 8:45 AM - 5:00 PM US/Eastern 10/26/2012 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM US/Eastern Location: The Westin New York at Times Square 270 W 43RD ST New York, NY - 10036 United States
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• William J. Schomberg - Editor, Americas Economics and Markets, Reuters News • Craig R. Gill - Director, Development Center of Expertise, Deloitte Services LP • Rob Mattern - President, Mattern & Associates LLC • Scott A. Westfahl - Director of Professional Development, Goodwin Proctor LLP • Margaret Poster - Chief Operating Officer, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP • Bob Bratt - Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director, US Operations, DLA Piper LLP • Gary B. Fiebert - Partner, Smock Law Firm Consultants & Former Executive Director, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP • Stanley Kolodziejczak - Co-Chair Law Firm Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers • Michael Hersch - Executive Director, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP • James G. Perkins - PhD, Chief Operating Officer, Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP • Arthur T. Gurwitz - Chief Operating Officer, Proskauer Rose LLP • Meredith Mendes - Executive Director & Chief Operating Officer, Jenner & Block LLP • Sean Whelan - Chief Financial Officer and Nashville Chief Administrative Officer, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP • Karen Braun - Co-Executive Director & Chief Marketing Officer, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP • Stephanie A. "Tess" Blair - Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP • Laks Ramachandran - Senior Vice President & Private Client Consultant, US Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management • Dan DiPietro - Chairman, Citi Private Bank Law Firm Group • LeeAnn Black - Chief Operating Officer, Latham & Watkins LLP • Milton C. Regan, Jr. - Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center • Heidi K. Gardner - Assistant, Professor of Business Administration, Organizational Behavior Unit, Harvard Business School • James Jones - Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of the Legal Profession, Georgetown University Law Center • Mark Medice - Senior Director, Peer Monitor
