Do law firms trade off different types of diversity?
Law firms and diversity: clients should examine the fine print carefully as firms may substitute racial diversity or pro bono work for gender diversity. Dr Lionel Paolella The push for workplace diversity has evolved over recent decades from societal pressure…
Legal Futures: Top 50 law firms heading for “two-track” future
Top UK law firms, slow to automate, shift decision-making away from partners toward experienced professionals as the line blurs between client-facing and back-office roles, finds report by Kishore Sengupta, Professor of Operations Management at Cambridge Judge Business School for LexisNexis.…
Law firm changes
Top UK law firms, slow to automate, shift decision-making away from partners toward experienced professionals as the line blurs between client-facing and back-office roles, finds report by Professor Kishore Sengupta of Cambridge Judge Business School for LexisNexis. Professor Kishore Sengupta…
Legal Futures: Firms with more women likely to adopt salaried partnerships
Gender diversity, but not compensation disparity, pushes elite UK law firms toward the adoption of “non-equity partnerships”, finds new study co-authored by Dr Thomas Roulet and Dr Lionel Paolella of Cambridge Judge Business School. The study looks at some of…
Business Weekly: Gender diversity pushes elite UK law firms towards non-equity partnership model
Gender diversity, but not compensation disparity, pushes elite UK law firms toward the adoption of “non-equity partnerships”, finds a new study co-authored by Dr Thomas Roulet and Dr Lionel Paolella of Cambridge Judge Business School. The study looks at some…
UK law firms
Gender diversity, but not compensation disparity, pushes elite UK law firms toward the adoption of "non-equity partnerships", finds new study co-authored at Cambridge Judge Business School. Law firms in Britain and many other countries have traditionally been based on a…
Adapt or die – why the UK’s top law firms must embrace change to survive
Fear of the unknown is no excuse not to embrace change, says new research from Dr Kishore Sengupta. "People are paralysed by the unknown," says Kishore Sengupta, Reader in Operations Management at the Cambridge Judge Business School, "and lawyers especially live…
Law firms, listen up. This is why it pays to be a jack of all trades.
Research from CJBS Lecturer Lionel Paolella suggests that law firm customers want a one-stop shop. "Jack of all trades, master of none" is an often-heard derogatory phrase, based on the perception that someone who is proficient at everything cannot also…
