Wise Leader
Consider your Firm's logo
Whether written as a mission statement, spoken or merely understood, your firm’s culture describes and governs the ways you and your staff think, feel and act. I would say that your culture starts with your logo because that is the first thing clients see. Whatever shape it takes, your firm’s culture plays a big role [...]
Manage Your Firm
Start to talk about strategic planning and people start to get nervous. Forget about the name and the formality, and just concentrate on the elements. Consider the primary purpose for a business, IT, security, or marketing plan and just document the main elements. We really don’t care if you call it a strategic plan or [...]
Can we benefit from a team?
Can high performance teams work in a law firm? The concept of a high performance team includes the release of control to the team. That means that recognition for success or failure is at the team level, never at the individual level. So, for example, if there was a very big or complex case the [...]
Are Your HR cost too High?
The advancement of an employee from one job position to another job position that has a higher salary range, a higher level job title, or a higher level of job responsibilities, is called a promotion. Decision making authority tends to rise with a promotion as well. But what if you decide to just increase the [...]
Why is it so difficult to state your vision
Why is it so difficult to express your vision? We can breakdown this formidable task for law firms like this: In our first interview we learn what you would like. In general, you want to make a profit and since you created a law firm, you want to do that by selling legal services. Further [...]
How are your financial metrics
Over the years I have noticed that expenses are not always what they appear to be. For some reason it is easy to find out what the revenue was but not so easy to discover what all the expenses were. The reasons for this range from ego to just not recording some expenses. The revenue [...]
