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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.