Austin G. Anderson is President Emeritus of the Network of Leading Law Firms. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota and his Juris Doctor from the University of Minnesota Law School. He previously served as the Director of the Institute on Law Firm Management and the Institute of Continuing Legal Education at the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Prior to joining the University of Michigan Law School, he served as the Administrative Partner of a major Minneapolis law firm. His consulting practice includes strategic planning; financial, practice and general firm management; mergers and acquisitions; marketing; lawyer development; and counseling lawyers and others with significant firm management responsibilities.

He is active on the lecture trail, teaching lawyers and other members of the legal service team how to manage, plan and market their practices. Admitted to practice in Michigan, Minnesota and Illinois, he is a member of the bar associations in those states, the American Bar Association and the International Bar Association. He is a member of the College of Law Practice Management and is immediate past Chair of the State Bar of Michigan's Law Practice Management Section. He is a Class Representative for the University of Minnesota Law School. Austin is a member of both the State Bar of Michigan and American Bar Association Foundations. Austin is the past Chair of the Law Practice Management Section of the American Bar Association (1982). He is the Chair-Elect of the Economics of Tort and Insurance Practice Committee of the Torts and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS). He is also Special Advisor to The Standing Committee on Continuing Legal Education, the American Bar Association.

As an active writer, he has co-authored Associate Retention: Keeping Our Best and Brightest (June, 2002), and Improving Firm Performance, Profitability and Partners: The Effective Associate Training Program, (1999), both for the American Bar Association Center for Continuing Legal Education. He has also served as contributing editor of Merriam-Webster's Legal Secretaries Handbook (1981) and as consulting editor of the revised edition (1996). He is co-editor of the Lawyer's Handbook, Third Edition (1992), published by the Institute of Continuing Legal Education and the American Bar Association. He is author of Marketing Your Practice: A Practical Guide to Client Development (1986) and A Plan for Lawyer Development (1986), both published by the American Bar Association. He is recognized in Who's Who in the Midwest, Who's Who in American Education, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law and Who's Who in the World.