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Perspective

Mar. 31, 2009

Firm Heads Often Confuse Leadership With Management

Certainly management skills are important - but at its essence, a law firm is a people business. You do not manage people - you lead them.

By Kurt Andrew Schlichter

In an environment where every day the newspaper headlines report that another big name firm has laid off dozens of its carefully selected and cultivated associates and staff members, it is more important than ever that law firm managers realize that they must instead be law firm leaders.

Leadership is most important in times like the present, when people are frightened and confused. It can be the difference between a firm's survival and...

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