“Don’t worry about your associates,” Douglas Richmond told an audience Oct. 12 in a discussion about managing risk. “If any lawyer brings down your firm, it will be a partner.”
Richmond is a managing director and loss prevention leader at Aon Professional Services Practice in Kansas City, and was speaking at “Partner Problems,” a program held at the 2023 Aon Law Firm Symposium in Chicago.
Over the past two decades, Richmond reminded the audience, partners at major law firms have garnered embarrassing and unflattering headlines for their firms for “crushingly destructive” misbehavior. He described a number of situations and provided ...
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