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Posted In: Law Firm Resilience, Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategic Planning, Uncategorized

A Developing Law Firm Merger Business Case – A Pure Talent Grab

I’ve seen a few merger negotiations recently that really caught my attention because they may foreshadow a new type of law firm merger

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Posted In: Law Firm Resilience, Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategic Planning, Uncategorized

Keeping Your Options Open: Preparing for Strategic Flexibility in a Competitive Legal Environment

While the post-pandemic merger pace is slower than many expected, law firm combinations are clearly on the rise.  More significantly, recent announcements suggest

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Posted In: Culture & Diversity, Law Firm Resilience, Mergers & Acquisitions, Uncategorized

Law Firm Merger Business Case Development: The ‘Script’ is Evolving with the Times

Something interesting is happening in the world of law firm merger matchmaking and due diligence. Specifically, the order of importance for the key

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Posted In: Mergers & Acquisitions

What if Your Law Firm is NOT Getting Merger Calls?

The law firm world is facing serious consolidation pressures right now.  Public numbers on “closed” deals would suggest to any uninformed reader that

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Posted In: Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategic Planning

“We Want to Maintain Our Independence” and Other Strategic Irrelevancies: Thinking About Merger as a Small to Midsize Law Firm

We appear poised to enter a period of more rapid consolidation in the legal profession, and as always the primary moderating factor will

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Posted In: Law Firm Resilience, Mergers & Acquisitions

Law Firm Mergers in the Time of (and After) COVID

Since the COVID epidemic took hold there has been a significant reduction in the number of law firm mergers and acquisition transactions announced,

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Posted In: Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategic Planning

Why So Many Law Firm Merger Attempts Fail

I recently wrote about the outcomes of our most recent 30 law firm merger & acquisition projects <link> within the context of a

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Posted In: Assessments, Mergers & Acquisitions

Law Firm Mergers: A Primer Based on 30 Recent Merger Discussions

In our recent analysis on The Legal Marketplace in a Post-COVID World, we predicted a significant uptick in law firm merger activity once

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Posted In: LawVision News, Mergers & Acquisitions, Organizational Structure, Research, Intelligence & Data Science, Strategic Planning, Talent Strategy

The Impact of Succession Challenges in Smaller Markets

  Last month I wrote about the succession planning challenges that many firms are, or will soon face. Based on what we’re hearing

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Posted In: Mergers & Acquisitions, Practice Group Management, Research, Intelligence & Data Science, Strategic Planning

Something’s in the Air…

The creative and entrepreneurial juices in the legal industry are boiling in the early days of 2016, particularly in the litigation space. One

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