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By Markus Hartung and Emma Ziercke
- Mar 26, 2019
- 10 min
Managing lawyers is like herding cats – or is it?
Are you a sceptical, introverted, insecure, high-achiever who doesn’t like being told what to do? Well, then you must be a lawyer. Lawyers are often regarded as a different specie altogether: Dobermans, fat cats, and even octopuses. According to a Buzzfeed animal personality test which matches Myer Briggs’ types to animals, lawyers (being mostly INTJ-Types – Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Judging) are like octopuses: “independent types, wildly intelligent and creative - bu
By Emma Ziercke
- Mar 1, 2019
- 7 min
Three things law firms can learn from a Berlin start-up that prints students’ course materials for f
An interview with Cecil von Croÿ, co-founder and CEO of PlusPeter In 2016, Cecil von Croÿ and his friend Karl Bagusat founded “PrintPeter”, a copy-service that prints and binds students’ course materials and delivers them to students at home, for free. In just two years, the start-up has attracted more than 5 million euros in investment and has more than 200,000 student-users from over 600 universities in Germany (roughly 11% of the German student population). In 2017 it was
By Markus Hartung and Emma Ziercke
- Mar 26, 2018
- 10 min
Driver or administrator? HR’s impact on law firm success and how to measure it.
HR leaders are being called upon to step into the “golden triangle” of strategic management, to be on an even footing with the CEO and CFO.[1] However many CEOs complain that HR leaders focus extensively on “administrivia”, lack vision and strategic insight.[2] Is this also true for law firms? The Bucerius Center on the Legal Profession (“Bucerius CLP”) recently investigated HR standards across top law firms in Germany (the “Bucerius CLP HR Benchmark Study”) and discovered th
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