BOOKS Christian Hagen BOOKS Christian Hagen

The Legal Mind Revolution – an interview with its author

Effective risk management is perhaps the most important challenge for company lawyers today. It is a basic prerequisite for becoming a true business partner. It is the ‘balancing stick’ for company lawyers ‘dancing on the slack tightrope’ between protecting the business and achieving business objectives. It is the key to more efficient and effective management of your (scarce) time.

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Antoine Henry de Frahan Antoine Henry de Frahan

Solving the Meeting Paradox

There is something awkward with meetings: On the one hand, it feels like we have too many of them and they absorb too much of our time. On the other hand, it feels like we need ever more of them: there are so many issues that need to be discussed. Many of us may feel stuck in this "we need less/more meetings" paradox.

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Antoine Henry de Frahan Antoine Henry de Frahan

"Je n’en peux plus des souffleuses utilisées pour épousseter quelques feuilles"

Notre époque a remplacé la politesse par la tolérance. Il n’incombe plus à chacun de limiter les nuisances causées à autrui. Il incombe à chacun, au nom de la tolérance, de supporter sans broncher les nuisances imposées par autrui. On a sacrifié la politesse sur l’autel de la liberté individuelle.

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Antoine Henry de Frahan Antoine Henry de Frahan

When performance is systemic, black box training won’t work

Once upon a time, I was giving a Writing Skills training to young associates in a law firm. I was teaching them. how to write clear, simple, short and actionable legal advice. At the end of the training, I asked them two questions: did you find the training interesting? and are you going to apply what you have learned?

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Antoine Henry de Frahan Antoine Henry de Frahan

Branding for Legal Departments What, When, and How?

Many legal departments do branding exercises once in a while. It often consists of a workshop (or a series of workshops) to define the department’s identity, mission, vision, and values…

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Antoine Henry de Frahan Antoine Henry de Frahan

Introducing the Frahan Vision Grid

Most organisations, at some point, face the challenge of defining or updating their mission, vision, values, purpose, strategic objectives… you name it! But before engaging in the exercise of defining these elements (our vision is this…, our mission is that…). it may be useful to clarify precisely what we mean exactly when we use these terms.

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Antoine Henry de Frahan Antoine Henry de Frahan

Associations d’avocats : les clés de la réussite

Il est devenu courant de l’affirmer : les associations d’avocats seraient des entreprises comme les autres. Mais est-ce vraiment le cas ? En quoi, le cas échéant, diffèrent-elles ? Et surtout, quel est l’enjeu pratique de la question, au-delà d’une simple controverse sémantique ?

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Antoine Henry de Frahan Antoine Henry de Frahan

Les associations d’avocats : des entreprises comme les autres ?

Il est devenu courant de l’affirmer : les associations d’avocats seraient des entreprises comme les autres. Mais est-ce vraiment le cas ? En quoi, le cas échéant, diffèrent-elles ? Et surtout, quel est l’enjeu pratique de la question, au-delà d’une simple controverse sémantique ?

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Antoine Henry de Frahan Antoine Henry de Frahan

Penser l’innovation

L’innovation est à la mode, et les avocats n’échappent à celle-ci. Mais quelle est réellement la place de l’innovation dans le succès des pratiques d’avocats ? Et l’innovation passe-t-elle nécessairement par les legal techs ? N’est-on pas en train de passer à côté de l’essentiel ?

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