Insights and Perspectives

“but to wait for you is all I can do, and that´s what I´ve got to face …. You coming back to me is against all odds, it´s the chance I´ve got to take.” Phil Collins, Against All Odds. There is [...]

A few weeks ago I participated in a Latin Lawyer event in Sao Paulo called “Elite” with members of several leading law firms in the region. I conducted a roundtable discussion about “A Culture [...]

The trend towards a more global and regional Latin American legal market in the last few years has created higher levels of anxiety in local firms. Questions like the following are being heard [...]

I never cease to be amazed of how much the lawyer DNA works against organizational objectives and goals. One of those aspects deals with the traditionally skeptical and risk-averse nature of [...]

One of the most complex affairs in a partnership is determining who does what, and also determining the value that should be assigned to various tasks and roles. There are several counteracting [...]

Last month I had the opportunity to visit IDEO´s offices in San Francisco to meet with Rochael Soper Adranly, its General Counsel, and Tara Safaie. For those who haven´t heard of IDEO, it is a [...]

Lawyers are trained to compete against each other. Their individual training as a professional in law school makes them rely upon their individual forces to develop and succeed in their careers. [...]

When I started as a lawyer in the early 80´ the type of lawyer that was revered was the generalist. The generalist was not necessarily an expert in any particular field –although they were always [...]

The discussion about compensation systems among lawyers is among the hottest you can find in the legal industry in Latin America. The extreme systems (Eat-What-You-Kill -or EWYK- and Lockstep) [...]

The recent regional IBA (LARF) that took place in Buenos Aires for the Latin American legal community showed once again the strong inclination of many firms to use networking as an important tool [...]