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Talent Systems For Law Firms, William D. Henderson Jan 2017

Talent Systems For Law Firms, William D. Henderson

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irtually every large US law firm owes its rise and success to a talent system it adopted several decades ago. These talent systems were effective because they created highly skilled business lawyers in a way that aligned the interests of partners, associates, and clients. The most prominent example is the Cravath System, though other business lawyers throughout the US were making similar discoveries at roughly the same time. The tremendous forward momentum of these first-generation talent systems has created the problem of ahistorical partners — owners who collect the late-stage benefits of a talent system approach without understanding its original …


Human Capital Accounting, William D. Henderson Jan 2014

Human Capital Accounting, William D. Henderson

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