Our consultancy services to the legal profession include:
- Strategic planning
- Business development
- Partner review and reward systems
- Profit improvement
- Commercial and financial management support
- Creating and sustaining effective teams
- Leadership and management
The management of professional legal firms is often a challenging process. Many professionals are technical specialists but have little commercial experience or indeed inclination to be involved in management. Satisfaction levels are not driven necessarily by money or size of a practice. The true professional often generates satisfaction from an exceptional level of client service and overcoming technical challenges posed by client situations. All in all, this makes the management of a solicitor/legal practice extremely difficult with clear differences and objectives between the partners – the professional service providers.
The management of a practice, the building of teams, the focus of strategies and the buy-in to those strategies are all key elements in successful legal practices. They are often secondary issues to the servicing of clients. They are critical issues in reviewing the performance, flexibility and success of a practice over a period of time.
Our initial approach to practice management is to undertake a Status Review of the practice. This work usually entails a 3-4 day exercise focussing not only on financial performance but also the management structures and interface of staff and partners. The results of this review usually provides a clear set of strategies for client approval and implementation.
For a status review or to discuss our services further please call us on 01903 884654