Law Firm Partner Compensation - Couverture souple

Bosman, Jaap; Fernández Madero, Jaime

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9082427893 ISBN 13 : 9789082427899

Editeur : JBLH, 2026

Synopsis

Law Firm Partner Compensation is the most complete and comprehensive guide to partner compensation ever written. No decision shapes a law firm more than how it pays its partners. Most firms get it wrong, not because they lack data, but because they misunderstand what compensation actually does.
Every firm has a system. Most partners believe theirs is broadly fair. And yet, in partnership after partnership, compensation remains the permanent source of friction, debated endlessly, adjusted repeatedly, and never resolved. The reason is not the formula. It is everything the formula ignores.
This book examines what compensation systems actually do, as opposed to what their designers intend. Why do eat-what-you-kill and lockstep models generate the same tensions despite opposite assumptions? Why does rewarding top performers so rarely make them stay? Why does tinkering with the formula reliably crowd out the strategic conversations that matter most?
Drawing on decades of direct consulting experience across North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia, Jaap Bosman and Jaime Fernández Madero cover the full landscape: the psychology of fairness and inequity aversion; origination credit battles and the rainmaker myth; modified lockstep and black box systems; the role of compensation in succession and generational transition; the arrival of private equity and what it changes; and the long-term disruption of AI.
The book does not offer a universal formula, because none exists. It offers something more useful: the analytical tools and the right questions to design a system that serves your firm's strategy rather than undermining it.
Essential reading for managing partners, compensation committees, and anyone responsible for keeping a partnership intact.

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À propos des auteurs

Jaap Bosman is founder and CEO of TGO Consulting, a strategy consulting boutique advising elite law firms and premier legal departments across Europe, the Americas and Asia. He is widely recognised as one of the world's foremost strategy consultants to the legal sector, distinguished not only by the depth of his industry knowledge but by a rare capacity for original thinking.

Jaime Fernández Madero is a consultant in strategy and management of professional service firms with long-standing experience in the legal industry. Fernández Madero was one of the founders of Bruchou, Fernández Madero & Lombardi, one of the top law firms in Argentina and acted as its managing partner for 10 years.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: JBLH
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9082427893
• ISBN 13: 9789082427899
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
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