There comes a time in your career when you need to delegate work and supervise other lawyers. If not before, that time comes abruptly when you begin generating more work than you can do by yourself.
You likely were not taught supervisory skills or how to delegate work. So, you are stuck learning “on the
I have been working on a business parable book for the last couple of years with Brice Voran, a former Shearman and Sterling partner, who is now of counsel. We are finally finished and getting the book ready to be published and available on Kindle. The book is about David, a rainmaker, in a
A young partner I coach recently found he had to delegate work to continue building his practice. His first efforts did not work out very well. So, he went back to the easier approach of just doing the work himself to save time and aggravation.
In our coaching session I told him that to be