Andrew Woolley on Practice Management

What type of management should we apply to our lawyers?

There are all sorts of types of management styles that have been identified. If you are the sort who needs to read the background then I can suggest a good read to be Leadership by John Adair. Oh and I am not going to get into the argument about the difference between management and leadership! Let's just accept for now that they are the same for our purposes.

What style do law firms normally use? My guess is that most don't know. We should.

Some lawyers need regular checking up on and input and some need next to no input or checking. My suggestion is that we should identify which "section" each is in and apply the relevant amount of management input ranging from a lot to very little indeed. I suspect that now many firms apply the same to all thus wasting valuable management time or they apply no management...

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