Significant change requires hard work to design, advocate, implement and package the change across multiple levels and multiple stakeholders before success is achieved.

Large law firms can be proud of finally seeing significant change across all levels of their firms’ business when looking at the numbers from the years ECP Legal/The Australian law firm survey.

In 2008, the Kingdom of Bhutan formally adopted in its constitution the notion of gross national happiness as a measure of well-being. In effect, GNH replaced gross domestic product as a measure of progress.

In the decade since, a strange thing has happened in Bhutan. Happiness, or GNH, has steadily risen and at the same time so has the kingdom’s GDP. Gross national income per capita is at record highs, while unemployment hit a record low of 2 percent in December last year.

On June 29, 2018, the results of The Australian Partnership Survey, a bi-annual large law firm survey conducted by Eaton Capital Partners for The Australian, were released in The Australian alongside an article by ECP Legal Partner, Justin Whealing.