Introducing The Friedman Williams Focus — Insights for Law Firm Strategies! Volume 1, Issue 1 is live. This issue starts with a simple problem: law firms that spend extraordinary care vetting lateral partners often hire their CFO, COO, or CMO with a fraction of that rigor. The result is a mistake that’s expensive, slow to […]
This is the third blog post in our four-part series on the structural forces reshaping executive hiring at accounting firms. In the previous post, we looked at how the CPA pipeline has collapsed faster than firms have adjusted. The compensation reset is the direct consequence. The accounting executive talent pool is not just smaller than […]
This is the second post in our four-part blog series on the structural forces reshaping executive hiring at accounting firms. In the first post, we looked at how private equity has rewritten the C-suite job at accounting firms. The labor market that has to fill those redefined roles is the second structural story — and […]
This is the first post in a four-part blog series on the structural forces reshaping executive hiring at accounting firms — and how the same forces are showing up in the law firms we work with every day. Private equity has been diving into accounting firms and acquiring them at a pace the legal world […]
The article was originally published to ALM’s Law Journal Newsletter Law firms are excellent at making the case for their own talent. They recruit aggressively for partners, vet laterals with extraordinary care, and understand implicitly that the right attorney in the right seat changes everything. Yet those same firms often approach executive staff hiring — […]