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.
Commercial law firms are facing great challenges today. On the one hand, the competition for promising young lawyers is becoming increasingly tougher, while on the other hand, the demands on lawyers are changing. In addition, commercial law firms have to face new competition from consultants
As we reported last year, Christoph H. Vaagt was awarded “Best Lawyer” in the field of insurance law, although he is not active in this field (he revises partnership agreements with regard to governance and profit distribution). The ranking by the American firm “Best Lawyers”,
At the newly founded Syndikus – Institute of the GGS University Heilbronn, which is to deal with the questions of the legal department in the company, he participated in the definition of the contents of the new course. Dr. Wolf Peter Gross is also represented
Mr. Christoph H. Vaagt was interviewed by Alina Fichtner, journalist of “Die Zeit” on the topic of career choice. Here you can find the complete article…
Mr. Robert Peres quotes Christoph H. Vaagt as the “doyen” of law firm consultants on questions of remuneration systems. Here you can find the article…
In cooperation with Best Lawyers, the Handelsblatt has identified the “best lawyers” in Germany. Christoph H. Vaagt is quoted in the article on the subject: “Even for experienced in-house lawyers, it is hardly possible to conclusively assess the competence of a colleague who specializes in
In cooperation with the European Business School and the University of Eichstätt, Ingolstadt, Christoph H. Vaagt – Law Firm Change Consultants – started this study, which for the first time in Germany scientifically examines human resource management, the processes / instruments used and their effects.
The aim of this study, which was carried out on behalf of the worldwide lawyers’ organisation AIJA in the period from 1 February to 31 March 2006, was to obtain an overview of the systems used in the law firms of members of the organisation
