I have been struck recently by the increasingly large number of (in my view) relatively ‘young’ partners (by which I mean anyone under the age of 45) taking on so-called ‘management’ roles in some of our leading law firms. This raises at least two questions:
- how much management do law firms need; and
- when is it a good time to take on a management role in a law firm?
I speak from experience. I was a partner for 12 years in a heavily-managed magic circle firm and for the last five of those years occupied what turned out to be a more or less full-time management position. Last year, I moved to a firm which has no defined management roles and where I have been able to return to full time fee-earning work.
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