Fordham Law’s upcoming Structural Issues in Law Firm Management program was featured in an article in Law360. Assistant Dean Toni Jaeger-Fine was interviewed and shared her thoughts on law firm management and its importance. The program begins Friday, January 28.
Brazil’s Mattos Filho and Fordham Law School are once again teaming up to improve law firm management across the globe as the legal industry faces another year upended by the pandemic and myriad other challenges.
The second edition of Structural Issues in Law Firm Management launches this month with sessions on firm business models and structures, compensation systems, leadership and governance, technology, cybersecurity, efficiency, recruitment and client relationships.
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How has the pandemic challenged or changed law firm management?
Jaeger-Fine: It’s challenged firms to move out of their very traditional, very conservative way of doing things. The new generation doesn’t really want to go through what Amadeu and I went through, where you’re in your office five or six days a week for 12-13 hours a day. They want something more flexible. They want more out of life. COVID accelerated the change towards a more flexible workplace.
