Taking Care of Clients

Here’s What Your Potential Clients Are Thinking About You

Every couple of years, I recommend one of my all-time-favorite lawyer marketing articles: it’s called How Clients Choose, by David Maister, and you can – no, you should – read it here. Though 25 years old, it remains the gold standard summary of what prospective clients experience while they’re sitting …Read More

4 Steps to Get Paid Faster

Making collection calls to clients is never fun – and it doesn’t feel good for us or for them. Yet effective billing and collections is a cornerstone of effective law practice management. Here are four steps you can take to improve the cash flow in your law practice and improve …Read More

How to Welcome New Clients into Your Practice

Many problems with clients – perhaps even most – can be traced back to an all-too-frequent practice management oversight: they were never properly welcomed into your practice.  Conversely, attorneys who provide new clients with a well-thought out welcome packet spend less time answering unnecessary questions, have fewer headaches, and more …Read More

The Daily Client Service Winner Most Lawyers Ignore

When I start working with them, only about 15% of my clients require their personnel to introduce themselves by name when answering the phone. This is true for both small and large law firms (where assistants and paralegals typically pick up after being transferred by the receptionist). This means that …Read More

Beware of the “Client Responsiveness” Illusion

Far too many attorneys have convinced themselves that they must tolerate their disjointed, interruption-laden approach to managing their time in the name of “good client service” (aka, “responsiveness”). But like an optical illusion, what seems to be true about responsiveness often isn’t.  Indeed,  in our work coaching lawyers on time management, we repeatedly …Read More

What’s the Best Response to A Client Complaint?

The most frequent reason clients dispute legal fees (or worse, file grievances) is that they’re unhappy with how they’ve been treated. The second is their feeling that they’re not receiving sufficient value for what they’re paying you. It’s rarely a technical error alone that triggers their complaint. Rather, it’s how …Read More

30 Suggestions to Improve Your Legal Writing

There’s an excellent list of resources on Plain Language and the Law at PLAIN (Plain Language Association International). One of the best articles is LEGAL WRITING 201: 30 SUGGESTIONS TO IMPROVE READABILITY (OR, HOW TO WRITE FOR JUDGES, NOT LIKE JUDGES) Read it here: https://www.plainlanguagenetwork.org/Legal/legalwriting.pdf Setting aside the debate as to …Read More

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