So, you are a managing partner facing a vexing issue and the usual advisers and articles leave you as confused as before. What's a MP to do?
Edge Group Consultant Patrick McKenna teamed up with Managing Partner Magazine to help. Patrick, along with Baker and Daniel's Chairman Emeritus Brian Burke, has corralled a small group of former law firm managing partners and other leaders including Nixon Peabody's Harry Truehart, Snell and Wilmer's John Bouma, and McGuire Woods' William Strickland.
Managing Partners can write to Patrick or MP Magazine. Patrick will convene a panel of experts, and draft a response, which will be sent to the inquiring MP. The response will be posted on McKenna's website, without identifying the inquiring managing partner.
Why the Leadership Advisory Board? Patrick responds in his press release:
“Our Leadership Advisory Board was constituted to offer a safe sounding board, especially to provide new leaders with pragmatic advice and experienced support to help them succeed.” commented Patrick McKenna of Edge. “I am so impressed and excited that every one of those whom Brian and I asked to participate in this initiative, responded enthusiastically.” For more information on the LAB, including their first article on "Preparing for the Worst",click here.
Explained one of the LAB members, “I believe that there is a dearth of good advice and mentoring available to new managing partners. It is staggering to think that corporate CEO's and other C-level people in the corporate world train their entire careers in order to be prepared when it is their turns to take the helm, but law firms put people at the helm of an enterprise whose revenue numbers have two commas in them with little or no formal training and almost no mentoring.”
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