Creating Leadership Opportunities in Law Departments
Posted by Sean Rehder (Permalink) | 0 Comments | | Wednesday, September 06, 2006


By Pamela M. Fay

"Almost every law department struggles with ways to create career paths where none exist. In the traditionally flat structure of a law department, there are simply not enough management appointments to go around.

One general counsel, Susan Lichtenstein at Baxter International, is working on a solution. "You can't have 75 of your people demoralized because they're in those [nonmanagement] jobs," says Lichtenstein. With only seven management positions in the department in addition to her own, Baxter's GC relies on leadership opportunities to motivate the lawyers in her department.

The difference between management and leadership can be subtle. Those in management have others reporting to them; those involved in leadership participate in activities that can have an influence on the actions of a group, such as heading a task force or contributing to the department's knowledge-management repository. "

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