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Michael Bradley

The Gen Y reshuffle

26 March 2010 | Gen Y: A highly mobile, ambitious and inventive group, or a bunch of overly-pampered brats? How a generation coped with the GFC, despite the (sometimes worst) intentions of the generation before it. Michael Bradley writes


The problem of partnership

23 February 2010 | Being a partner no longer necessarily means having a say in how the business is run, among other things. Michael Bradley asks, what is partnership now, anyway? 1 comment


Who's sorry now? The GFC that wasn't

9 February 2010 | In the turmoil of the GFC, firms have rid themselves of precisely the people they're going to need in an upswing. Michael Bradley talks post-recessionary planning and how it all went wrong 1 comment


Fall of the 'ancien regime'?

2 February 2010 | The enemy has been named. Alternative billing methods are making the so-far resilient time-billing champions very uncomfortable. Just how serious is the inconvenient attack on the old order, Michael Bradley asks.


View from the top: Michael Bradley; Fair game?

19 January 2010 | In the inaugural 'View from the top' column, Michael Bradley, managing partner of Sydney-based Marque Lawyers, says that if the profession is serious about having women in partnership positions it has to change the game of play.


Firms weigh up name changes

6 August 2009 | Deacons will become Norton Rose, and Blake Dawson Waldron is no more. But law firm name changes are not always so simple, with partner egos and marketing all wanting a say. 1 comment


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