Managing the modern law firm / edited by Laura Empson.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-229) and index.

Your partnership : surviving and thriving in a changing world : the special nature of partnership -- Your people : valuing diversity : some cautionary lessons from the American experience -- Your expertise : developing new practices : recipes for success -- Your client relationships and reputation : weighing the worth of social ties : embeddedness and the price of legal services in the large law firm market -- Your income : determining the value of legal knowledge : billing and compensation practices in law firms -- Your capital : building sustainable value : a capital idea -- Your competitors : mapping the competitive space of large US law firms : a strategic group perspective -- Your ethics : redefining professionalism? The impact of management change -- Your challenge : sustaining partnership in the twenty-first century : the global law firm experience.