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Law Firm Succession Planning: Senior Lawyer’s Perspective
/0 Comments/in Succession Planning /by Gideon GrunfeldWhat are founding or managing partners going to do with themselves once they retire? This question comes up regularly when consulting with law firms about succession planning issues. Law firms commonly struggle with succession planning in part because of their inability to find a satisfactory post-retirement role for the senior lawyer. Some of the difficulty […]
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