Business Strategy: A summary of advice from leading consultants at Inpractice UK and elsewhere highlighting how lawyers and legal practices should be tackling the challenges.
As firms begin to emerge from the recession in 2010,they may feel they want to get their breath back before tackling the next challenges that face them. But as any law firm consultant will tell you, now is the time to get lean, efficient and in shape to deal with the full range of legal services reforms heralded by the Legal Services Act. They say that firms should take a long hard look at themselves in the mirror and identify a business strategy that maximises their chances of success, whatever the future holds.
This task of developing a business strategy may seem daunting for lawyers but, whatever the size of your legal practice, help is at hand. In much the same way that management consultants are routinely involved in reinventing businesses in other sectors, law firm consultants are increasingly helping create realistic but aspirational business goals and the business strategy to reach them.
A Law Society Gazette review based on interviews with Alan Hodart, Allan Carton, Stephen Mayson, Tony Willliams and other leading consultants advising law firms on business strategy to captialise on the Legal Services Act.
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