EDITORIAL: Making life easier!
Professional athletes have coaches. Company bosses have coaches. Only the top lawyers do not have coaches?
Anyone who performs at a high level of efficiency is under enormous pressure to perform in a high-performance law firm (in English these are not called High Performance Work Systems for nothing). “In addition” he also has to cultivate his social environment and lead employees, address customers and seek new business opportunities. And these are the ones who don’t have coaches? When we launched the “AdvoCoach” brand 19 years ago, we were often told that lawyers “don’t need” them. In the meantime, that has changed, but many, too many in our view, have not yet discovered for themselves the advantage of making their lives easier through self-reflection. As a specialist in the law firm market, we could cite one or two examples where we could make a difference.
How to generate 10% and more turnover by separating the recording and evaluation of times – legally secure No lawyer succeeds in reconstructing a day’s work to the minute after the fact – and yet many try. The time recording is then neither objective nor
A casual conversation with ChatGPT about the ability of law firms to adapt to using AI machines (Questions by myself, answers by ChatGPT) My questions were: Why could the AI represent a Kodak-moment for law firms and their business model? Very well, but why would
Eine Untersuchung des Marktes der Wirtschaftskanzleien in Deutschland hinsichtlich Marktsegmente, Erfolgsfaktoren und Herausforderungen
– a provocation. This is my presentation title at Legal Live 2021: a critical review of law and compliance, seen from the perspective of systems theory…. When? on 9.11.2021, at 12:30 ! Where? at Legal Live, a virtual congress format. https://legal-live.net/fur-besucher/#programm (in German)
Lawyering is like sailing… you need to think in advance what may come, prepare for the worst, hope for the best… summer has been kind to me this year, with lot of wind and sun… the occasional thunder storm, and warm summer winds… sailing along
Figure: Development of revenue per professional of the leading national law firms 8Hengeler, Gleiss Lutz, SZA), the leading UK and US law firms (global players) and the medium-sized law firms among the top 100 law firms in Germany. Data from Juve, analysis LFCC Larger
Software providers are also affected by changes in the market, and many have major tasks ahead of them. What mistakes they should not make now, we have compiled in the study.The first neutral market study of law firm software providers that addresses all relevant issues
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Actually, nothing has changed in 2020! We just travelled less, but that was actually not so bad…. Despite Corona, we carried out our law firm consultations, including 4 face-to-face workshops with all partners. And these were our favourite projects: Helped a law firm with 20
Dr. Peter Berg knows that implementing the latest EU Money Laundering Directive in law firms can sometimes be a complex undertaking. His experience is about working with a Magic Circle, defining the processes in Germany in conjuction with the UK Headquarters. German lawyers have to
What must law firms do in a crisis? How must law firms react to the corona crisis? How do law firms remain successful despite the crisis? We answer all these questions in a nutshell!
Team culture is central to high performance systems such as law firms; it is the result of shared reflection on the rules of the game and understanding of differences. Partners who take the time to do so benefit in many ways.
