Succession: Strategically creating a successful succession plan

In 1988, Brian Meltzer moved to Keck, Mahin & Cate and joined John Purtill, Roger Stelle and William Mitchell in opening the law firm's Schaumburg office.He watched the firm grow from 80 to 400 lawyers in just a few years, but he soon realized that "they were growing just for growth's sake and whatever they did right was by accident." Among its other missteps, the firm accumulated too much debt, made …

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