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By Gabriela NGUYEN-GROZA, Managing Partner and Nam NGUYEN-GROZA, Partner, Amrop Luxembourg
Lateral partner hiring is less about legal expertise and more about managing complex, often underestimated risks around business portability, cultural alignment, collaboration, and leadership impact. After hiring lateral partners, law firms are often disappointed by client portability, cross-selling, integration dynamics and professio- nal behaviours. A disciplined, insight-driven executive search approach adds value by rigorously testing these less visible dimensions, enabling firms to make more grounded, strategically sound hiring decisions.
Lateral partner hiring is a slightly uncomfortable necessity for law firms. Most firms would prefer to grow...
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