As a nod to the most ancient roots of the legal profession, a majority of law firms and legal departments rely on informal apprenticeships, rather than more structured programs, when grooming successors, a national study reports. Robert Half Legal, a staffing agency for firms and legal departments, found that 53 percent of 300 lawyers surveyed at large law firms or companies said they had no set plan to identify and groom successors. But is that as dangerous as playing a game of Russian roulette?
January 17, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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As a nod to the most ancient roots of the legal profession, a majority of law firms and legal departments rely on informal apprenticeships, rather than more structured development programs, when grooming successors, a national study reports.
The findings are unlikely to surprise lawyers at Connecticut firms, which by and large change their management structures on the fly.
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