Marlene Laro Quoted in Washington Lawyer Regarding the Role of Chief Operating Officers at Law Firms

Potomac Law Chief Operating Officer Marlene Laro is quoted in the Washington Lawyer article "How Legal COOs Are Driving the Future of Law Firms." The story discusses the important and diverse set of responsibilities a chief operating officer oversees in the management of a firm’s operations with strategy, growth, technology, staffing, and human resources chief among them.

Laro oversees all the core COO responsibilities at Potomac Law, in addition to “spending the bulk of her time ensuring that there’s collaboration across the firm, that people feel connected and recruiting new partners,” she notes in the article. She also says, “A large part of what I do is the core of firm culture.”

Beyond her COO role, Laro is a partner at the firm and a member of its tax practice group.

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