News date: 3 April 2014
March 28, 2014 the X Annual Legal Forum “Development of the legal services market in Ukraine – 2014” took place at the Hotel InterContinental Kyiv, Ukraine. The event was organized by Ukrainian Bar Association.
Mikhail Ilyashev spoke on the topic “Is There a Happy Medium: Balance of Competences As a Development Factor for a Law Firm.” According to him, to be successful, a law firm must strike a balance between lawyers’ competencies and tasks. “Only a firm that has managed to preserve this kind of balance – I mean the balance between experienced lawyers and junior associates and between the number or lawyers and mandates undertaken by the firm – will be growing and successful and will not encounter external problems,” Ilyashev said.
Mikhail Ilyashev believes an ideal law firm grows together with its employees, shifting to more complex tasks. In effect, however, a perfect balance is not something that can hardly be achieved, so each law firm has to find its own balance between the ambitions of its partners, aspirations of its lawyers, and the market. And everyone needs to back down a little, otherwise the firm will inevitably encounter “internal” problems.