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.
Our consulting highlights from 2018 include: Spin-off of a consulting firm on DGVO from a law firm Reorganisation of an auditing company for the purpose of higher internal cooperation and capacity to act Tripling the profit of a medium-sized commercial law firm (Austria)
Competition improves business, they say: Two books on legal tech. Two books have been published by C. H. Beck-Verlag: The “Legal Tech Handbook” by Stefan Breidenbach/Florian Glatz and the book simply called “Legal Tech” by Harting/Bues/Halbleib. To publish two books on the same topic is
The list of penalties imposed by the European Union for competition violations is so long that one has to ask oneself whether violations are a worthwhile business model. The most recent example is the judgment against Google or Alphabet for deliberately exploiting its supremacy in
Isn’t it enough if she just does her job very well? And to do it as conveniently as possible for the company? No – that is not enough, we think. This is already evident from the fact that the provocative questions above raise counter-questions. What
Kanban is a so-called agile method for controlling production processes. Kanban comes from the Asian language and means card, label or sticker. The first Kanban system was developed from 1947 by Taiichi Ohno at the Japanese company Toyota. One reason for the development of Kanban
The practical handbook Legal Operations Management was published by Springer in 2017. The editors, Roman P. Falter and Christian Dueblin, have compiled an impressively comprehensive work, which deals in eight sub-chapters with the challenges of legal operations, their identity, positioning and leadership, structures, resources and
Which clients do we want, and how can we make sure they are profitable? This were the key questions discussed by over 180 lawyers form around the world at our profitable clients cafe at the IBA Annual conference in Rome, which Chris Vaagt facilitated with
With the article: TURNING CORPORATE COMPLIANCE INTO COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE the US-American scientists Robert C. Bird and Stephen Kim Park show strategies to use compliance as a sustainable instrument for market positioning. Compliance is a core concern for corporate governance. Firms devote tremendous amounts of money,
As a long-standing observer of the Swiss law firm market, Christoph H. Vaagt was interviewed on the question of how the market will develop.
At the 10th IBA event Christoph H. Vaagt spoke on the question of the need for change in the development of law firms.
Michael Gassmann writes about the future of patent attorneys.
June 18 and 19, 2018: Vienna House Andel’s Berlin The Legal Transformation Days are a practice-oriented event that addresses the growing challenges facing lawyers. The core question is: Who makes demands on Legal Tech? How must law firms and legal departments position themselves today in
