Here are five thoughtful tips on how to avoid traps that could threaten the productivity and growth of your small law firm and assist in strengthening the practical knowhow in managing a successful business.
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Putting the “Pro” Back in Professional Service
If buyers can touch, feel or see what they’re buying, many purchasing concerns disappear. In professional services you don’t have this advantage. So what is the unique quality defining a successful professional service provider?
Read moreAre You Giving Your Legal Clients What They Really Want?
It’s sometimes easy to forget that behind large corporate clients are real people who are driven by emotions and stressors like everyone else. Determining what legal clients really want is a psychological exercise that must go beyond simply providing ‘good service’.
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Creating a Strategic Plan for Your Law Firm: Tips From Dr Grant Robertson, UGM Consulting
Creating a strategic plan for your law firm will see you better placed to manage the ups and downs of business life and volatile economic times. We spoke with principal consultant Dr Grant Robertson, UGM Consulting for his advice on creating a strategic plan for your firm in 2014.
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Top 2014 New Year’s Resolutions for Your Legal Practice
We asked five legal industry experts to share their 2014 New Year’s resolutions on strategic planning, performance and growth for your law firm. It’s going to be another exciting and challenging year for the legal profession in 2014, with continuing commoditisation of legal services, increasing client expectations and pricing pressures to contend with.
Read moreAre Your Meetings Meeting Expectations? Conduct Productive Meetings ASAP
Meetings are part and parcel of legal life. But how often do we really have productive meetings as opposed to, quite simply, huge time wasters? Do digital alternatives to the…
Read moreLegal Practice Management: Start Up Lean and Let Overheads Follow
The worst mistake practitioners can make when starting their own practice is to spend too much, too soon, on hiring staff and investing in infrastructure. Here are four strategies that will help you start lean and let your overheads follow, rather than lead, your revenue growth.
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3 Key Ways Technology Can Help You Engage With Clients
In today’s increasingly connected, cross-media and multiscreen world, it’s more important than ever to connect with consumers where they are – online, on mobile and on social media. The modern…
Read moreLawyer Marketing: How Even the Smallest Firms Can Build a Winning Initiative
For those who do not make the law their career, the natural assumption is that all lawyers make money hand over fist. However, as sole practitioners and those working in…
Read moreHow Much is Technophobia Costing You?
If you find yourself wishing you had more time to actually practice the law instead of spending endless hours on typing, administration and other mundane yet necessary tasks, you’re not…
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