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Executive Business Advisor
Start up, grow, and protect your law firm with confidence by collaborating with an expert in the business of law.
Gene enjoys helping firms of all sizes achieve financial and professional success, and he thrives on partnering with thought leaders who are interested in building a new brand of business with a deep sense of community. Gene would be honored to share his practical, actionable recommendations with your firm’s senior leadership team.
Fees
Gene charges for his confidential management consulting services based on a mutually agreeable hourly rate, monthly fee, and/or success fee, whichever provides the best value proposition for clients.
He typically charges a fixed fee for his professional speaking engagements, but frequently waives the fee for presentations sponsored by bar associations and other nonprofit organizations that advance the legal profession.
Gene’s areas of expertise include:
Smart growth strategies will enable forward-thinking law firms of all sizes to successfully navigate the demographic, professional and technological trends that are shrinking the talent pool, driving up the costs, and transforming the business of law. Gene advocates for Smart Growth in Action: 2030™, an innovative approach that helps skilled attorneys develop an owner’s mentality and adds value to the business enterprise through strategic investments of time and other resources in the human capital needed to satisfy client expectations.
Leadership transitions are inevitable for all firms, especially those relying on baby boomers to lead client relationships and business initiatives. Smart growth strategies can ensure long-range stability by providing for a seamless transition of clients, leadership responsibilities, and ownership opportunities to the next generation of leaders. Future-focused transition strategies also mitigate the risk of forfeiting valuable client and business opportunities due to the unexpected departure, retirement, disability, or death of key talent.
Talent development and retention are essential for sustained law firm prosperity. Key factors to attract and retain productive talent include compensation, quality of work, state-of-the-art technology, professional growth and career advancement, personal well-being, and a healthy workplace culture. All business decisions should be made with an eye to developing and retaining the firm’s talent. And law firms should double down on efforts to retain women and people of color, whose attrition rates are disproportionately high.
Workplace culture by design is a key component of a healthy, sustainable law firm. Firms should ensure all talent has the personalized training and tools they need to thrive while also fostering a deep sense of community, inclusion and belonging throughout the enterprise. Future-focused firms should invest time and effort into cultivating a magnetic workplace culture that reflects a genuine commitment to personal well-being, professional development, and career advancement.
Partner compensation sets the tone for a healthy, collaborative workplace culture that attracts, develops, rewards, and retains productive talent. Smart growth strategies incentivize behavior that supports both a magnetic workplace culture and a profitable business enterprise. Everyone who effectively invests their time and skill to help the firm meet its financial and professional goals should be recognized and fairly rewarded according to the value they add to the firm.
Mergers among like-minded law firms and strategic practice group acquisitions are increasingly popular among firms of all sizes as they struggle to properly scale their business operations and fill the talent gap caused by unprecedented attrition rates. Talent-driven mergers, acquisitions, and lateral hires enable forward-thinking law firms to blend their human assets and generate transformational business growth opportunities that can better position the combined firm to hurdle future talent challenges.