I was recently interviewed by Carolynne Burkholder-James, Associate at Heather Sadler Jenkins LLP, for CBA Practice Link. Here is a short excerpt:

…“I think that the most important way to make law firm retreats effective is the pre-retreat work,” she says. “Once you figure out what is the point of this specific retreat, there is often a lot of homework to be done before you go into the retreat. You need to pull out some data, do a survey, do interviews either within the firm or with clients. You need to check out some information on trends in the sector.”

Bekhor says that it is important to put all that information together before the retreat begins “so you’re not all just staring at each other and blank walls.”…

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