We’re excited to introduce the Lawdragon Global 100 Leaders in Legal Strategy & Consulting.
This year, the 4th in which we’ve published this guide, is a bit different. We are celebrating a birthday party on a tenuous day.
The 100 experts in management, marketing, communication and recruiting recognized here are among the world’s most valued by law firm leaders. But as we all know, value is transitory when you’re in a tailspin.
Value in that circumstance is foremost – and only – getting out alive.
We are all learning to celebrate life’s victories in uncertain times. And this guide provides a moment to recognize a tremendous cross-section of professionals to whom lawyers actually pay money for advice. Our methodology is a dogged, slightly ridiculous, determined ongoing conversation 365 days a year with leaders of the profession as to those they trust with their future. Who crafts their difficult export of the bondage-practicing partner into a headline with an amicable split? Who helps a foundering midweight Midwest firm aspire to greatness? Who are those bankers helping firms ensure they have the lines of credit to keep a firm going in a pandemic?
And about that tailspin; from Covid-19, you’ll clearly note, for example, the absence of real estate brokers and other advisers whose role going forward is in real flux. From the prolonged metastases of discrimination in elite law firms, you’ll note that – let’s just say it, shall we? – if legal consultants resemble the firms they advise, we could all do better.
Disarray and confusion about the future requires innovative thinking and new approaches from these titans of legal advice. And who better to advise on communications, which is paramount in reestablishing cohesion and confidence.
So onward. They bring their A game every day – as we all must.
