Sublime

Management of a professional firm requires a delicate balancing act between the demands of the client marketplace, the realities of the people marketplace (the market for staff), and the firm’s economic ambitions.

All of the firms discussed here have reputations for long hours and hard work, even above the norms for the all-absorbing professions in which they compete.

every aspect of a practice group’s affairs, from practice development to hiring, from economic structure to governance, will be affected by its relative positioning on this spectrum.