Global Legal Leaders: Recent Episodes
Stephen McGarry
Global Legal Leaders is the location where leaders in legal business meet to discuss the most important issues affecting their practices and operations. This includes networks, Big Law, law companies, organizations, consultants, the media, and technology companies.
Stephen McGarry and Jennifer Kain Kilgore
David Cruickshank of Edge International shows us how to run a remote Zoom meeting and repurpose content for other mediums (e.g., YouTube, LinkedIn, etc.).
David advises law and other professional services firms on practice management, strategy, governance, leadership development and talent retention strategies. He works with managing partners, professional development directors and partners, and hiring partners to convert training to a strategic advantage of the firm. David creates customized programs on leadership, time management, project management, delegation, feedback and business development skills.
David has also worked on partner development in AmLaw top 50 firms. He has designed customized partner-level courses for many AmLaw 200 firms.
He has worked as a training consultant in top firms in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States since 1990. He is well known academically in the field of legal skills education. He currently teaches as an adjunct at the Pepperdine Law School master’s program and is a frequent conference speaker.
David was recently a consultant at KermaPartners and before that, Director of Professional Development at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison in New York. He has a master’s degree in law from Harvard Law School. His law degree and B.A. were earned at the University of Western Ontario. David is based in San Diego, CA, and travels regularly to New York City.
Dr. Silvia Hodges Silverstein is the CEO of Buying Legal Council. She has been a part of the legal industry since 2002. She has worked for EAN International (now GS1), the global standards organization in supply chain management, as well as for law firms and legal software companies.
Silvia co-authored the Harvard Business School case studies GlaxoSmithKline: Sourcing Complex Professional Services (N9-414-003) on the company’s legal procurement initiative and Riverview Law: Applying Business Sense to the Legal Market (N9-414-079) on a new model law firm that uses management information systems and cause analysis to reduce legal costs for its clients.
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VIDEO PRESENTATION May 3, 2013, Earning Your Seat at the Table" Embrace Legal Services Metrics
VIDEO: June 13, 2019, Buying Legal Council Meeting
VIDEO May 3, 2016, The Key to Building a Relationship with your Legal Stakeholders
Discussion among managing partners of the largest Asia Pacific Firms on how they have confronted Covid-19.
Discussion among managing partners of the largest North American Law Firms on how they have confronted Covid-19.
Discussion among managing partners of the largest European Law Firms on how they have confronted Covid-19.
A discussion among leaders of four networks on the issue they have confronted to deal with the issues. The panelists will discuss: How do they manage to exit from the pandemic with a stronger organization. What resources they have at hand from the government? How do they plan to meet members' expectations? How can they assist their members with clients?
Directory of Network Leaders (click)
Tony Williams has more than thirty-five years’ experience in the legal profession, occupying senior management positions as well as direct client handling and fee earning. He is admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales, Hong Kong and Victoria, Australia. In Jomati Tony does not practise as a lawyer.
As principal of Jomati Consultants, Tony has worked for a range of international and domestic firms in the UK, US and Continental Europe, Asia and Australia. His advice covers such matters as management succession, partner appraisal and remuneration, peer reviews, firm strategy and its implementation including business planning and the positioning of law firms in their market. He is also actively involved in firms’ strategic expansion including mergers, new offices, alliances and team hires. He also assists firms on reorganisations, profitability analysis and client strategies.
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VIDEO PRESENTATION August 18, 2012
Video: Small Steps for Change, August 11, 2019