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Leadership for a Changing Legal Profession
October-December 2026
Lawyers are asked to lead in circumstances as varied as the lawyers themselves. They know how they respond will affect their careers and others. They also know—now more than ever, given the pace and unpredictability of change—that their firm’s reputation, culture, and economic future rests on the timing and consequences of their leadership choices.
In this issue of Walker Clark Worldnotes: Leadership for a Changing Legal Profession, Lisa M. Walker Johnson offers practical guidance on how to answer the call to leadership, drawing on the insights and experiences of past and current law firm leaders she and her colleagues have worked with around the world.
Navigating Through a Changing World
July-September 2026
As clients look into the future, their law firms need to stand with them, see what their clients see, think more intensely about what their clients are thinking, and understand the implications of the future for what those clients will need and expect.
This issue of Worldnotes: Navigating Through a Changing World examines the challenge of moving from merely providing good legal advice to becoming a strategic risk partner.
Sustainable Profitability in Law Firm Operations
October-December 2025
This issue of Worldnotes is about risk — ones that should be obvious but are overlooked, as well as those that lurk beneath the surface of law firm operations.
One of the most important, but also possibly the most subtle and insidious underlying cause of disappointing profitability in many law practices today is weak or, in a surprising percentage of firms, non-existent policies and procedures to identify and manage risks. The risks can be financial, service-related, or professional, but, in the end, they all affect the bottom line.
