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Luxury watches and which associate to can next.
Have mercy!
You. Specifically you.
At all firms ofc
Ours is mostly a financial update followed by introduction of new partners and announcements of new initiatives, accolades received by the firm/individual partners, etc. There’s also the typical billing / collection push that gets more aggressive at quarter/year end.
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yes, plus marketing progress, hiring updates, anything anyone dares to bring to the table…
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Pickleball strategy.
Lack of cloth napkins in the dining room
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If it’s an all hands partner and counsel meeting with all offices it’s a formal structured presentation by management. Ordinarily the agenda is 70% productivity/financial metrics and 30% everything else, such as major firm initiatives (e.g. AI, pandemic- related operational changes, etc), updates on new offices, significant material additions, and major new clients or matters. These meetings are intensely structured, short, and to the point.
If it’s a meeting among the partners in a single office, it’s typically a much less formal, easygoing discussion that usually starts with financial matters with a focus on local AR balances, productivity metrics, and business development. It then turns to other local business issues such as partner lateral hiring, new staff members, new clients and matters, any recent events such as deals or trials, and scuttle it about what’s happening in the local legal market. Very rarely do we discuss individual performance issues unless they come up during the productively discussion (eg “Why are Xs numbers so low? Because of Y?”). At the end the structure usually breaks down and we talk about vacations or current events.
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Lack of snack options in the lunch room. :) I kid, I kid. Financials mostly.
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Financial health of the firm, potential new technology roll outs, the benefits of PGCs ensuring their folks enter their time, potential promotions, office openings, office space, overhead, the snacks there
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Thanks for the clarification. As someone who is still in recovery from multiple sentences in that position I would say it’s the worst job in the world. All the accountability and none of the authority. Bleccccch.