Law Firm Management – Page 11

Pressure for Law Firm Diversity Coming From Attorneys, As Much as Clients

Briefings, Law Firm Management, Law Firms / January 27, 2018

Ogletree Deakins – As Chief Diversity and Professional Development Officer at Ogletree Deakins, I have seen that law firms specifically, and the legal industry, generally, face external pressures from clients, outside counsel, and diversity groups to maintain diversity initiatives. Recently, some of that pressure has been coming from sources internal to law firms—namely, their own […]

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3 Simple and Practical Ways to Improve Law Firm Culture

Briefings, Briefings, Law Firm Management / January 25, 2018

Heather McCullough* What a law firm looks like today is dramatically different than what it looked like 50 years ago. Law firms benefitted from client expansion and demand for legal services, and grew exponentially. The sheer size of law firms today necessitates doing things differently than they have traditionally been done. Partners don’t work down

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When Will the Billable Hour Die?

Briefings, Briefings, Law Firm Management / January 4, 2018

JD Supra Perspective – Lance Goddard* I recently talked to John Chisolm, a former practicing lawyer and law firm CEO who works with firms around the globe to help them evolve from traditional billing – by the hour – to what has become known without irony as non-traditional: pricing services based on their value. This

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Some Great End-of-Year Questions For Clients

Briefings, Briefings, Law Firm Management / December 4, 2017

Wicker Park Group – We’ve written countless blog posts about the importance of talking with clients “off the clock” to seek feedback and gain a better understanding of their businesses, strategic goals, preferences, priorities and pressures. The attorneys doing this well have seen the simple effort make a dramatic difference in the strength of their

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Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: 5 Rules For Breaking Up a Law Firm Partnership & The Partner Who Wants to ‘Burn the Firm to the Ground’

Headlining, Law Firm Management / November 30, 2017

Breakups are hard to do, whether romantic or ‘legal’ in the sense of law firm partnerships. But the bitter breakup of a US personal injury firm is demonstrating the need to prepare for the worst. There are some things you can do to avoid the sort of acrimony and scorched earth acrimony that is being

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Save On Meetings Using This Email ‘Trick’

Featured, Law Firm Management / November 29, 2017

Michelle Banner – Meetings are the bane of many lives, lawyers included. They’re also incredibly expensive according to an article we picked up from Alex Cavoulacos at TheMuse, which reported a US cost to one company (non law) of $15 million. Now that, let it be said, is nuts. Further, there is a ‘context-switching’ time

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Dentons Bold In-House Counsel Consultancy Move to “Reinvent” Legal Profession

Headlining, Law Firm Management, Law Firms / November 18, 2017

Legal giant Dentons have announced the formation of an in-house solutions consultancy designed to capitalize upon the demands from in-house counsel. The new group, called Nextlaw In-House Solutions, is a strategic consultancy service involving more than 50 former general counsel globally, designed to provide a multi-disciplinary service to in-house counsel. Pressure on legal fees and

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What Does “Added Value” Mean To Law Firm Clients?

Briefings, Law Firm Management, Law Firms / November 11, 2017

Wicker Group – Those readers familiar with Wicker Park Group are aware of our key theme in 2017: Adding Value. For those of you new to the concept, adding value is one of the most important qualities necessary to building long-term, trusting, meaningful client relationships. Clients routinely mention adding value as one of the key

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10 Rules For Being a Happy Lawyer

Briefings, Briefings, Law Firm Management, Law Marketing / November 9, 2017

Sarah Goulbourne, co-founder of successful law firm GunnerCooke, has 10 rules for being a happy lawyer. Happy lawyers are; fun, charismatic, considered and trustworthy; are you? Many lawyers I have met say they are unhappy because of their career choice. They are overworked, under-appreciated and disillusioned with their profession. Unhappy lawyers have fallen out of

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The Law Firm That Started in a Coffee Shop And Liberated Lawyers From Timesheets

Headlining, Law Firm Management, Law Firms / November 8, 2017

So how about this for a law firm business plan? – no time sheets, no traditional partner structure, full profit-sharing . . and an objective to be one of the fastest growing law firms in the UK. For Sarah Goulbourne, who started her legal shakeup in a Costa Coffee shop at the age of 45

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