Articles & Materials
I have organised my articles and materials into five main areas:
Many of my articles have been published in leading publications and books, and I have also included materials taken from my two books Strategy For Law Firms published in 2009 and Tackling Partner Underperformance, the second edition of which was published in 2018.
IN the Nick of Time
This article focusses on a number of rescue remedies that firms in the early stages of financial difficulty can consider, a combination of which can be harnessed to help firms improve or recover.
Fleshing out Partner Roles and Responsibilities
This article supplements Nick’s White Paper on Partner Roles and Responsibilities. In it he addresses the subject of behaviours and success indicators. In order to demonstrate the attainment of an objective or the making of a valuable contribution, it is often helpful to examine actual to behaviours exhibited, facts evidenced and specific outcomes achieved and this piece suggests ways of approaching this.
International Alliances: How They Work, What They Deliver and Whether to Join
An article reviewing modern forms of international law firm alliance and the strategic challenges that such associations face
Enter the Swiss Verein
This article , co-authored by Ed Wemann and Nick Jarrett-Kerr takes a look at possible structures for international mergers
Striking Partners
In this article, Nick suggests ten typical reasons for partner underperformance and ways of dealing with them. The article is extracted from a much longer chapter in “Tackling Partner Underperformance in Law Firms” (Ark 2011).