May 23, 2023
Historically, Simon Tupman muses, the legal
profession has associated strong performance as a practitioner with
leadership capabilities. In an ever-changing professional services
marketplace, he says, leadership in law must have a more
all-encompassing approach — because good lawyers don’t necessarily
make good leaders.
On this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, host Jerome Doraisamy
speaks with Simon Tupman — a consultant, speaker and mentor to law
firms — about what he believes law firms and legal teams are
getting wrong when it comes to identifying leaders and why, whether
poor leadership can cancel out any financial benefits that arise
from promoting successful practitioners, and whether a revamp of
business models in law will be required to better elevate certain
leaders.
Mr Tupman also reflects on how flexible and adaptable leaders in
law have been since the onset of the global pandemic and what they
are getting right in the new normal, the need for leaders in law to
be more holistic in their approaches, and the key principles he has
identified that will constitute effective leadership in the legal
profession moving forward.
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