Better partners meetings build better partnerships.

Law firms make a big mistake when they avoid partners meetings or minimize their importance to being little more than an occasionally required ceremony.

Such an approach, although perhaps understandable in some law firms, is a short-sighted mistake, because it denies the firm access to one of its most important assets: the collective experience, insights, and wisdom of the partnership.

Here are five suggestions that Walker Clark clients have used to make their partners meetings more productive.