While lawyers stay busy practicing law, there are many legal professionals behind the scenes who make the trains run on time, from legal administrators aptly running the business of the law firm, IT experts protecting firms’ and clients’ intellectual capital, the CFO and her team to maintain and advise on firms’ finances and so many more non-lawyer functions.

In my discussion with Mark Tarasiewicz, former Executive Director of the Philadelphia Bar Association and now the Executive Director of Administration with Spector, Gadon & Rosen, I learned what a day in the life of a legal administrator looks like and Mark’s unique point of view of today’s law firm leaders’ greatest challenges.