Speaking Engagements

Bill is a commentator and lecturer on trends in the legal profession, including patterns of lawyer mobility, the relationship between profitability and associate satisfaction, the economic geography of large law firms, and attrition rates of female and minority attorneys.

Bill is frequently invited to speak at seminars, conferences, retreats, and other events and has served as the keynote speaker for companies, law firms, law schools, and state bar associations. Topics that Bill regularly speaks on include:

  • Law firm strategy
  • Industry structural change
  • The legal market
  • Legal education
  • Diversity efforts
  • Human capital management
  • Lateral partner market

Some of the audiences Bill has spoken before include:

  • AmLaw 100 and 200 law firms
  • International Legal Technology Association (ILTA)
  • Practicing Law Institute
  • Hildebrandt Institute
  • Managing Partner Roundtable
  • Stakeholders Charting your Own Career Course (CYOC)
  • ALAS
  • NALP (Legal Placement)
  • NYC Professional Development Consortium
  • Association of American Law Schools
  • Educating Tomorrows Lawyers
  • Southeastern Association of Law Schools
  • Conference of Empirical Legal Studies
  • Thomson Reuters
  • Wolter Kluwer
  • AdvanceLaw
  • Counsel on Call
  • Federal Bar Association
  • National Conference of Bar Presidents
  • California State Bar
  • Indiana State Bar Association
  • Oregon State Bar
  • Ninth Circuit Bar 
  • International Association of Defense (IADC)
  • Federation of Defense I Corporate Counsel (FDCC)
  • Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)
  • PNC
 
  • Westfield Insurance
  • General Counsel Forum (Texas)
  • American Bar Foundation
  • National Legal Mentoring Conference
  • College of Law Practice Management (COLPM)
  • US Law Firms Group (Leadership Roundtable)
  • Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD)
  • Chicago Committee on Diversity in Large Law Firms
  • National Legal Malpractice Conference (ABA)
  • Professional Development Institute (PDI)
  • ABA Section on Legal Education
  • Pre-Law Advisor National Conference
  • Law & Society Association
  • American Law & Economics Association
  • LexisNexis
  • Mitratech
  • Axiom
  • American Bar Association
  • National Conference of Bar Executives
  • Illinois State Bar Association
  • Indianapolis Bar Association
  • New York City Bar Association
  • Seventh Circuit Bar 
  • Defense Research Institute (DRI)
  • Avery Denison
  • Pfizer Legal Alliance
  • Conagra