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The Latinamerican legal market was recently surprised by the news about the merge between “Philippi, Yrarrázaval, Pulido & Brunner”, a Chilean firm, and “prietocarrizosa”, a Colombian firm, [...]

Partners in law firms around Latin America usually enphasize how important talent development is for their firms and that adequate hiring and retention is key for their success, and [...]

Much of the discussion about law firm management move around the “herding cats” problem: lawyers are difficult to manage, they don´t like being controled, they are too [...]

I was recently reading a very good book about motivation (“Drive, The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, Daniel H. Pink) and came across this intriguing and rather disturbing [...]

It is often said that good strategy, leadership and culture are the key ingredients of a successful firm, but also the hardest to get right. However, if you ask partners across Latinamerica what [...]

I was recently told the story about a group of doctors working in the surgery department of a public hospital in Buenos Aires. They were threatening to go on strike arguing that the department [...]

A managing partner recently complained to me “I don´t know what to do with my partners. They want to have all the benefits of a partner´s status but it´s really tough to make them assume [...]

Jaime Fernández Madero es autor de “Organizando Firmas de Servicios Profesionales. El caso de los Abogados.”, el primer libro en Latino América que trata en forma comprensiva las [...]