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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
Management