Hannah Genton and Noam Cohen: “5 Things We Wish Someone Told Us Before Founding CGL LLP”

Eventually, your main job will be to take care of your team. Once you are in a position to adopt a higher-level role, so much of your job becomes about people management and problem solving. As a law firm, our people are our greatest asset. Making sure that our employees have everything they need to thrive is absolutely essential. I always want my employees to feel like they can come to me, ask questions, and that I can make their experience at CGL meaningful.

As part of my series about the leadership lessons of accomplished business leaders, I had the pleasure of interviewing Hannah Genton and Noam Cohen. Hannah and Noam are the Founding Partners of CGL LLP, a fully-distributed transactional law firm dedicated to providing clients exceptional, Big Law-quality legal services at competitive rates while simultaneously delivering a greater work/life balance for their attorneys and staff. After years of toiling at Big Law firms where attorneys were constantly overworked in highly rigid office…