

The #1 Way Great Firms Die (And How Yours Can Avoid Being Next)
10,000 baby boomers will retire every day for each of the next 13 years according to estimates from the Social Security Administration and the Pew Research Center. That’s about 9 people per second, which means about 90 people retired in the time it took you to read this far. Yikes! Let’s think about the gravity of that alarming rate for a moment. Especially how it relates to aging baby boomers within your business. How many baby boomers do you have at the mid- or senior leade

How Leaders Stay Fresh And Help Others Step Up - Part 3 of 3 of the Conversation with Bryan Schwartz
With almost every leader we’ve spoken with, they’ve often stepped into a culture that they inherited in some way and had to reshape from there. Very few of them had to build it from scratch. What’s fascinating about Bryan Schwartz's story is that he really started as head of Levenfeld Pearlstein with a white piece of paper. Value Drivers: Brian, many of us talk about what we'd do if we could start with a white piece of paper. As the co-founder of Levenfeld Pearlstein, you a

How A Law Firm Wins By Aligning Its Disruptors (Part 2 of the Conversation with Bryan Schwartz)
People who rock the boat in your environment aren’t as bad as you think. In fact, they may be just what your business needs to approach challenges from a whole new perspective you wouldn’t have considered. Bryan Schwartz, Co-Founder of Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC., is a Leader With Courage who embraced this line of thinking during his tenure heading his law firm. We recently talked about the value of alignment and why you don’t need everybody on the team to agree in order to be

Leader With Courage: Bryan Schwartz, Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC (Part 1 of 3)
Our newest Leader with Courage profile is Bryan Schwartz, business attorney and co-founder of Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC. The first line of Bryan’s bio on his law firm’s website says a lot about how he views himself: “A businessman who happens to be a lawyer.” For the first 14 years of Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC., Bryan served as Managing Partner, providing him the insight and understanding of leading a successful business in a way few attorneys can relate to. Value Drivers: Yo