Insights and Perspectives

Lawyers tend to have an individual perspective of the legal profession. They are trained that way in our universities in Latin America. The predominance of the individual perspective over the [...]

One recurrent topic in my institutional development programs in Latin America is the difficulty that lawyers face when they have do deal with rules within the law firm. It is difficult to create [...]

This is an extract from the chapter ‘Leadership in founder-led law firms’ by Jaime Fernández Madero in Leadership for Lawyers: Essential Leadership Strategies for Law Firm Success, [...]

Last week the Law Firm Management Committee of the IBA organized in Sao Paulo the conference titled “Law Firms as Businesses: Option or Necessity?”, where many leaders from Latam law firms, as [...]

One of the most fascinating areas in management and organizational behavior is how decisions are taken in companies and firms. One of the reasons for this interest is that, being a central [...]

In my interviews with partners across Latin America, one of the more common complaints about their firms is that partners do not collaborate among themselves. These observations are usually [...]

In my years of law student in Argentina back in the seventies we had just one subject (Political Economics) related to the functioning of the economy. That remarkable obliviouness of the business [...]

Traditionally, law firms in Latin America had close ties with US law firms. They do business with them mostly through referrals sent by US firms; they send young lawyers to get trained in [...]

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 [...]