Articles
Jomati publishes occasional briefing papers and articles on management issues for law firms.
Please find below a selection of some of our publications for downloading, We would be delighted to receive any comments you might have on them.
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A very mixed picture at best: the listed law firms' roller coaster ride
September 2022, By Tony Williams via The Global Legal Post
Management, Legal Market
Slaughter and May is the ultimate finishing school
August 2022, By Tony Williams via The Global Legal Post
Management, Legal Market
Partner Remuneration: Finding the Balance Between Origination and Execution
October 2021, By Tony Williams via HONG KONG LAWYER
Management, Legal Market
The New Normal for Law Firms
September 2021, By Tony Williams via HONG KONG LAWYER
Management, Legal Market
The Associate Pay Wars: A Question of Market Forces vs Morality
July 2021, By Tony Williams via Legal Week
Management, Legal Market
New Solicitor Business Models
January 2021, By Tony Williams via HONG KONG LAWYER
Management, Legal Market
Doing the Right Thing Will Also Be Good Business
November 2020, By Tony Williams via GLOBAL LEGAL POST
Management
The New Law Firm Model
November 2020, By Tony Williams via HONG KONG LAWYER
Management
Managing the Risks of Working from Home and Flexible Working Hours
October 2020, By Tony Williams via HONG KONG LAWYER
Management
To Thrive, Firms Must Identify the Winners of Tomorrow
September 2020, By Tony Williams via The Lawyer
Management, Legal Market
Growth Strategies for Small and Medium Sized Law Firms
January 2020, By Tony Williams via HONG KONG LAWYER
Management
Trend-betting for 2025
December 2019, By Tony Williams via Briefing
Legal Market
Why Succession Planning is a Key to Success
November 2019, By Tony Williams via HONG KONG LAWYER
Management
Why law firms need best friends
October 2019, By Tony Williams via Modern Legal Practice
Management
The Big 4's move into law
May 2019, By Tony Williams via Modern Legal Practice
Legal Market
Offices of innovation
March 2019, By Tony Williams via Briefing
Management
Momentum matters: here’s eight ways to maintain it
January 2019, By Tony Williams via TheLawyer
Management, Legal Market
The Big 4 and The Law
December 2018, By Tony Williams via HONG KONG LAWYER
Legal Market
Law firm IPOs – access to a money tree?
October 2018, By Tony Williams via Modern Legal Practice
Legal Market
Time to fix the roof while the sun shines
July 2018, By Tony Williams via The Law Society Gazette
Management
Why firms can no longer ignore culture if they want to stay competitive
July 2018, By Jenny Jones via LegalWeek
Management
When Should a Firm Leader Leave? Tips on Timing and Planning the Exit
June 2018, By Brad Hildebrandt and Tony Williams via The American Lawyer
Management
Six things to consider if you want to float your law firm
June 2018, By Tony Williams via The Lawyer
Management, Legal Market
The Four Types of Firms Vying For the Top Work and Who Will Win Out
March 2018, By Brad Hildebrandt & Tony Williams via The American Lawyer
Legal Market
Law firms and access to justice: Why the 1% should pay 1%
February 2018, By Tony Williams via The Lawyer
Legal Market
How to make technology central to your firm's strategy
February 2018, By Tony Williams & Janet Day via LegalWeek
Management
Trading post-haste
February 2018, By Tony Williams via Modern Briefing
Legal Market
Partner retirement - grasping the nettle
January 2018, By Tony Williams via Modern Legal Practice / Globe Law and Business
Management
Operational excellence - an underrated business tool
October 2017, By Janet Day & Tony Williams via Globe Law and Business
Management
Adopting new technology: an action plan
April 2017, By Tony Williams & Janet Day via The Lawyer
Management
Verein talking
March 2017, By Tony Williams via Briefing
Management
How the rise of the US elite in London has shaken up the M&A market
February 2017, By Tony Williams via Legal Week
Legal Market
Is your firm led by an ostrich?
January 2017, By Tony Williams via The Lawyer
Management
Developing Client Relationships in the New Age
November 2016, By Tony Williams via Hong Kong Lawyer November 2016
Management, Legal Market
Alternative Working Practices and Embracing Change (Interview)
October 2016, By Tony Williams & Charlotte Parkinson, via Modern Law Magazine Issue 26
Management
Why careful planning is key to your firm’s success abroad
October 2016, By Jenny Jones, via Legal Week
Management, Legal Market
Brexit: The Must Do’s for Law Firms
August 2016, By Tony Williams, via The Lawyer
Management, Legal Market
Managing your law firm post-Brexit
July 2016, By Tony Williams, via Lexis®PSL
Management, Legal Market
A new model Law Society
May 2016, By Tony Williams, via The Lawyer
Management, Legal Market
Structuring a law firm: what does it actually mean to be an LLP?
May 2016, By Tony Williams and Teresa Langston, via Legal Week
Management
Crisis management for law firms dealing with data leaks
April 2016, By Tony Williams, via Lexis®PSL
Management
Partner retirement - the elephant in the room
April 2016, By Tony Williams & James D. Cotterman, via Altman Weil & Jomati
Legal Market, Management
International firms in Germany
April 2016, Michael Lappe, via Altman Weil & Jomati
Legal Market, Management
Four reasons to put the revolution on pause
November 2015, By Tony Williams, via The Lawyer
Legal Market, Management
Secrets of success in this year’s UK 200
October 2015, By Tony Williams, via The Lawyer
Legal Market, Management
Beware of the upturn: why firms still need to be careful in good markets
September 2015, By Tony Williams and Steve Cottee, via Legal Week
Legal Market, Management
You say tomato: the problem with lateral hiring across the pond
May 2015, By Tony Williams, via The Lawyer
Management
When a leader's listening skills are also survival skills
October 2014, By Tony Williams, via The Lawyer
Management
Hope for the best, plan for the worst
September 2014, By Tony Williams, via The Lawyer
Management
UK Top 50 in five years' time:
a ranking with a shelf-life?
September 2014, By Tony Williams, via Legal Week
Legal Market
Expand with care to avoid a collapse
June 2014, By Tony Williams, via The Lawyer
Management
If you can’t tame your gorilla, take a clean shot
May 2014, By Tony Williams, via The Lawyer
Management
Keeping Independent Firms Relevant in an Era of Globalization
April 2014, By Tony Williams, via Law Practice Today
Legal Market, Management
A Brave New World For Business Development
February 2014, By Richard Tromans and Tony Williams, via PSMG
Management
The End of Cash?
February 2014, By Tony Williams, via American Lawyer
Legal Market
What the state of the nation means to business development
June 2013, By Richard Tromans and Tony Williams, via PSMG
Management
How To Adapt and Survive in the new Legal era
December 2012, By Richard Tromans and Tony Williams, via International Bar Asssociation
Management
Rethinking the pyramid
June 2012, By Tony Williams, via Law Business Review
Management
The new means of production for UK law firms
May 2012, By Tony Williams and Richard Tromans, via Association of Partnership Practitioners
Legal Market
No one size fits all
April 2012, By Tony Williams, via Law Business Review
Management
Death of a golden age?
February 2012, By Tony Williams, via Law Business Review
Legal Market
The irrelevance of independence
January 2012, By Richard Tromans and Tony Williams, via European Lawyer
Legal Market
Opinion: Germany or bust
January 2012, By Richard Tromans and Christoph Vaagt, via The Lawyer
Legal Market
Thoughts on the Legal Services Act
May/June 2011, By Richard Tromans and Tony Williams, via PSMG
Legal Market
Mergers: Marry in haste, repent at leisure...
December 2010, By Tony Williams, via Association of Partnership Practitioners
Legal Market
The Future of Legal Services - Emerging Thinking
June 2010, By Tony Williams, via The Legal Services Board
Legal Market
The market view
June 2009, By Tony Williams, via Butterworth's Guide to Legal Services
Legal Market
The good news: recovery is one year closer
December 2009, By Tony Williams, via The Lawyer
Legal Market
Be the first on the front line for the upturn
October/November 2009, By Tony Williams, via FD Legal
Management
In the balance
August 2009, By Tony Williams, via New Law Journal
Management
The Changing Client
August 2009, By Tony Williams, via New Law Journal
Legal Market
Planning for the worst
March 2009, By Tony Williams, via Top Legal International
Legal Market, Management
Firms that make the right decisions now will be on the starting blocks the minute the economy starts to recover
January 2009, By Tony Williams, via Legal Strategy Review
Management
Managing a law firm: Survival of the fittest
November 2008, By Tony Williams, via Legal Week
Management
The Survival of the Fittest
October 2008, By Tony Williams, via The Lawyer Magazine
Management
International Expansion: A Marketing Perspective
July 2008, By Tony Williams, via LMA Newsletter
Management
Private equity can transform law
March 2008, By Tony Williams, via Legal Week
Management
A greater sense of urgency
October 2007, By Tony Williams, via The Law Society Gazette
Management
Lawyers urged to accept the need for reform
August 2007, By Tony Williams and Margaret Lang, via The Scotsman
Legal Market
What goes up...
June 2007, By Michael Herlihy, via Law Society Gazette
Management
Client Relationship Management - clearing the fog
May 2007, By Benita Kumar, via Law Society Gazette
Management
Recruiting, Retaining and Motivating Talented Lawyers
October 2006, By Michael Herlihy, paper presented at the European In-House Counsel Conference
Management
Flotation buoys partner profits
October 2006, By Tony Williams and Colin Ives, via Legal Week
Management
Tiers that bind
October 2006, By Tony Williams, Legal Week
Management
How to handle an irate client
September 2006, By Michael Herlihy, via Law Society Gazette
Management
Preparing for damage limitation
September 2006, By Michael Herlihy, via Law Society Gazette
Management
$100k salaries for ex-trainees?
May 2006, By Michael Herlihy, via Chambers Client Report
Management
Stepping out of the shadows
July/August 2006, By Richard Tromans and Tony Williams, via The European Lawyer
Management, Legal Market
Partnerships: Do we need them?
July 2006, By Michael Herlihy, via Chambers Client Report
Management
Effective Strategy Reviews
July 2006, By Tony Williams, via Chambers Client Report
Management
You ain't seen nothing yet (legal services reforms)
June 2006, By Tony Williams, via Managing For Success Magazine
Management, Legal Market
The Empire Strikes Back
February 2006, By Tony Williams, via The American Lawyer
Legal Market
Precious Commodities
November 2005, By Tony Williams, via Legal Week
Management, Legal Market
View From Here: Changes
March 2005, By Tony Williams, via Legal Week
Legal Market
Success in succession planning
November 2004, By Tony Williams, via Baker Tilly Professional
Management
Lateral Hiring - A Few Lessons
October 2004, By Tony Williams, via Deacon Search
Management
Global law firms: getting the best out of them
October 2004, By Tony Williams, via Global Counsel
Management
Dial M for merger
September 2004, By Tony Williams, via Legal Week
Management, Legal Market
'IT and the Law, an uneasy partnership'
October 2003, By Tony Williams, via LITF Bulletin
Legal Market
Last chance saloon
October 2003, By Tony Williams, via Legal Week
Legal Market
The fantasy and realities behind the ideal European law firm
September 2003, By Tony Williams, via The European Lawyer
Legal Market
UK Law Firm Accounts
September 2003, By Tony Williams, via The Lawyer
Management
Brought to account
July 2003, By Tony Williams, via The Lawyer
Management
International Relations - managing an international firm
July 2003, By Tony Williams, via Legal Week
Management
Mending your ways
January 2003, By Tony Williams, via The Lawyer
Management
The Future of MDPs
November 2002, By Tony Williams, via Legal Week
Legal Market
Andersen: lessons for general counsel
April 2002, By Tony Williams, via Global Counsel
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