Understanding Law Firm Economics

Tuesday, March 8, 2011
12:00 – 1:00 pm
Harvard Law School
Lunch will be provided!

Arthur Greenberg
Chief Operating Officer
Goodwin Procter LLP

The Economic Downturn…Starting Associate Deferrals…Layoffs…Diminished Summer and Starting Associate Opportunities. What happened to the private law firm job sector in the past two years? What implications does it continue to have for law firm practice? What are law firms doing to meet the challenge? Mr. Greenberg invites you to join him in a conversation about the macroeconomics and business fundamentals of the law firm enterprise.

Arthur Greenberg, who joined Goodwin Procter in 1996, serves as the firm’s Chief Operating Officer. As COO, Mr. Greenberg is responsible for overseeing the firm’s business, financial and administrative operations. He serves on Goodwin Procter’s Executive and Management Committees, and oversees the implementation and execution of firm policies and procedures. Prior to his tenure at Goodwin Procter, Mr. Greenberg was VP-Finance and Administration at CSC Index, an international consulting firm, and previous to that he was Chief Financial Officer at Hale and Dorr, an AmLaw 100 law firm based in Boston. He is a member of the Association of Legal Administrators, the Financial Executives Institute and Hildebrandt’s COO-ED Roundtable. Mr. Greenberg received his M.B.A. from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management and an undergraduate degree from Brown University.

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