Harvard started a revolution in leadership training for law firms in the 1990s. Alex Aldridge and Alex Novarese tell the story and assess what management training can offer

In 1995, two Harvard Business School (HBS) case writers interviewed Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz’s celebrated co-founder Marty Lipton about the firm’s marketing practices after it came top in The American Lawyer Am Law 100 survey for revenue per lawyer and profit per partner.