Law Firm Management Committee: Best Practice Playbook
This interview series features members of the Law Firm Management Committee – primarily from the Small and Medium Law Firm Subcommittee, along with other IBA officers and members – sharing their perspectives on key management challenges and solutions.
Topics range from building international professional relationships for business development, shaping firm culture for the future, adopting effective legal tech, and managing talent, to other issues central to running a successful practice.
By highlighting pain points, emerging trends and practical solutions, the speakers aim to preserve and share knowledge that can help IBA members, law firm managing partners, and founding partners of small and medium-sized law firms and next gen to navigate today’s competitive legal environment.
Episode one: The art of building global connections
Claudio Visco, President-elect of the IBA and Senior Partner of Lipani, Italy, shares his experience and views on the art and values of global professional networking for a law firm. He also emphasises the importance of investing in international professional relationship-building by involving the new generation as a law firm in general and via the best practices of the IBA as a professional association. Claudio’s thoughts are shared as part of the video podcast series of the Small and Medium Law Firm Subcommittee of the Law Firm Management Committee. The video podcast series, starting as of 2025, aims to preserve best law firm management practices and reach a broader audience beyond the seminars and webinars of the LFMC.
Watch nowEpisode two: Empowering future leaders in law
Paul Marmor, Partner of Sherrards Solicitors, UK, and Senior Chair of the Law Firm Management Committee (LFMC), explains the essential principles and best practices of professional networking skills, which is a ‘must know’ for a young senior associate or partner stepping into an international organisation like the IBA with a view to building up a career as a rainmaker. Paul discusses how to efficiently and sustainably run a law firm or any department (practice area, local office etc) of it. Paul also shares his personal view on the magic of how to combine the work-life balance with 24/7 availability. According to Paul, the IBA’s LFMC is a great venue to pick up these skill sets from colleagues, the webinars, conference sessions and other programmes, including via its Training Academy for The Leaders of Tomorrow.
Watch nowEpisode three: Advising across borders in a time of geopolitical tension
Marcin Olechowski, Managing Partner of SK&S, Poland, shares his view on a very sensitive topic: managing client expectations and relations in times of geopolitical tension. In the third episode of the video podcast series of the Small and Medium Law Firm Subcommittee of the LFMC, Marcin talks to Judit Budai, Szecskay Attorneys at Law, about the importance of the independence of local law firms. He reflects on the balance between political neutrality and performance demands and cautions against lawyers becoming ‘fixers’.
Watch nowUpcoming episodes:
- Gábor Damjanovic Managing Partner, Forgó, Damjanovic & Partners; ERF Council Member, Hungary
- Tijana Kojović Managing Partner, BDK Advokati; Co-founder, Draftomat
- Alexandru Birsan Co-Managing Partner, Filip & Company
- Attila K Csongrady CEE Debt Financing Lead, Schoenherr
The interviews were produced and hosted by Judit Budai, Co-managing Partner, Szecskay Attorneys at Law and Vice Chair, LFMC-SMLF, with the indispensable support of the Small and Medium Law Firm Subcommittee.
The videos were filmed and edited by Annegret Munitzk, Marketing & Communications Director, Szecskay Attorneys at Law.