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NEWS
For immediate
release
January 23, 2006
Blaqwell, Sandpiper Partners Form Alliance
to Provide
Wide Range of Consulting Services
Blaqwell Inc, independent consultants to
the legal industry, based in New York City, and Sandpiper
Partners LLP, a Bloomfield, N.J.-based consulting firm concentrating
on assignments for companies serving the legal sector and
law firms, have formed an alliance to provide solutions for
a broad range of client issues.
“Our two firms offer unmatched experience at a senior
level on the toughest challenges in law firm management as
well as business expertise and development know-how for legal
vendors,” said Stephen A. Glasser, chairman of Sandpiper.
“We have seasoned professionals from premier institutions
in the legal, publishing, educational, investment banking
and consulting fields.”
David Barnard, a founding partner of Blaqwell, commented,
“By providing services jointly and sharing our professional
resources, we offer clients superior strategic, and operational
know-how to enhance the profitability of their businesses,
expand their practices into new areas, and educate their workforces
to be more effective.”
Blaqwell, which also has offices in Washington, D.C and London,
has a strong record of helping law firm clients make effective
change on issues of strategy, business planning and direction-setting,
management, governance, organizational effectiveness, operations
and profitability. Blaqwell also advises corporate law departments
on enhancing their relationships with their internal clients
and outside legal advisers.
Barnard, who was a partner of Linklaters for 20 years, was
a co-founder of Linklaters’ international finance practice
and managed the North American operations of Linklaters. He
is an adjunct professor at Columbia University Law School,
where he teaches The Anatomy of Large Law Firms, and at SUNY
Stony Brook College of Business, where he teaches Managerial
Economics in the College’s new Executive MBA program
for law firm managers.
Other members of the Blaqwell senior team include partner
Aileen Leventon, a former partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers
LLP, who specializes in assisting corporate law departments.
She received an MBA from Columbia University. Miriam Herman,
who received her JD from Yale University and is a former Associate
Principal at McKinsey & Company, leads the Washington,
DC office. Mark Shapiro, a former Director (senior partner)
in McKinsey’s New York office, holds an MBA degree with
honors from Harvard Business School. Graeme Brister, another
former Linklaters partner, heads the Blaqwell London operations.
Sandpiper is currently assisting a wide array of clients on
strategic, marketing, business development and educational
projects. Its principals, Stephen Glasser and Lynn Glasser,
are adjunct professors and program consultants for development
of the first executive MBA degree program for business executives
and partners at law firms, the SUNY Stony Brook University
College of Business Executive MBA. The Glassers recruited
chairmen, managing partners, executive committee members and
executive directors of 23 major law firms to advise on the
development of the curriculum, teaching approach, and schedule
for this undertaking which commences in April 2006 at Stony
Brook’s Manhattan campus.
The Glassers are a husband/wife team widely known for their
entrepreneurial approaches for legal enterprises They are
the co-founders of Glasser LegalWorks, which they sold in
2004 to West/Thomson; Law & Business, Inc., later known
as Prentice Hall Law & Business, which was sold to Simon
& Schuster and later to Wolters Kluwer after they headed
it for nine years; and “Legal Times of Washington”,
which was sold to American Lawyer Media.
The Glassers have developed over 1,000 educational events
for various law firms and companies; developed and published
more than 800 books and newsletters; and planned and carried
out more than 250 business development assignments for law
firms and companies.
For more information contact:
Stephen Glasser
email steveglasser@sandpiperpartners.com
telephone 973.338.3802
David Barnard
email david.barnard@blaqwell.com
telephone 646.746.8088
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