Way Outside: How to Rebuild Your Law Firm Practices
Attorneys seeking inspiration or advice on reconfiguring or revising their business practices often seek out colleagues or friends for advice. Most attorneys maintain other attorneys as colleagues and friends. So, when they’re seeking business advice, they’re getting it from other attorneys. There are a couple of problems with relying on that strategy, however. The first is that law firm managers tend to rely entirely on their own experience. If you ask them what to do in a specific situation, they will invariably say: ‘Well, this is how we do it . . .’ But, there is no one size fits all model for law firms, which means that lawyers should refer to various scenarios, before determining which option works best for them. (And so, that’s a good conversation to have with a law practice management consultant *AHEM* , who regularly speaks to different law firms, to gauge their perspective s . ) The second problem w...