You may  feel that you can’t afford to pay for high value, expert management advice to help, support and guide you as you grow now, aiming to take advantage of the new opportunities that have opened up for lawyers.  However, you can with our flexible Retained Practice Development Director service working alongside you in your business. 

This is an affordable 6-month subscription service aimed at helping you take the right steps to get your practice pushing ahead again with a reliable, co-ordinated and focused plan from here. 

The standard package gives you up to 10 hours of pragmatic management and business support each month on a 6-month subscription. That would enable us to work with you as an advisor, non-exec, sounding board, catalyst, or however will best help you to shape, manage and develop your practice over the next year or so. There are other options depending on what would work best for you.

You will get independent, objective and experienced insight on strategy and implementation of initiatives related to business strategy, digital marketing, new technologies, sales and traditional marketing, alongside pro-active management of client relationships, moving to digital, use of AI (Automated Intelligence), management reporting, data security, improving processes and more.

We will inform and challenge you and your colleagues objectively, helping you to innovate and to make the right calls on difficult decisions more easily and faster and with confidence.

WHY DO THIS NOW?

Difficult decisions and uncertainty are inevitable as we return to work, but with new opportunities opening up alongside the existing challenges. 

• Carton & Co has seasoned, experienced management and practice development expertise and a deep knowledge of the legal market, including managing client relationships, process, new technologies and much more. All of this becomes available to you at a time when you may have limited resources available in-house and are pressured for time to think.

• We will help you now to evaluate, choose and implement the right steps to cut through many of the uncertainties you face coming out of lockdown.

• As ever, our overall objective is to enable solicitors to deliver more value to their clients, ensure a successful, competitive and sustainable practice, target your best business opportunities and attract more of the right business and new clients. 

• Due to the new familiarity and comfort with video calls on Teams or Zoom, we can now engage effectively online for some of our consultancy at a lower cost to you. 

• There are other options we can explore.   
  

WHAT YOU GET

Now that we are all comfortable working remotely, the service involves you working together with Allan Carton online using Teams, Zoom and a variety of other online tools like Miro map out and develop new ideas together, working one-to-one with a flexibility that works best for you. Not webinars or networks, but focused entirely on giving you whatever insights, challenges and support you want. We know now that we can communicate effectively this way, to give better value. 

• First, we get to know you, your business and your market, starting with completion of an online questionnaire to capture key information efficiently.

• On average you have two and a half hours each week to tap into our objective, informed insight, market knowledge and experience to help you shape and implement plans from here.

• This will include a series of video meetings throughout each month – whatever works best for you but likely to begin with one structured video meeting each week or in alternate weeks.

• Follow up actions, research and other input on your plans

• We will set and research the agenda and/or pertinent briefings for each meeting.

• Additional input as agreed, dependent on your plans.

This will be the most cost-effective way for you to be sure that you make the right moves from here in a world where expectations and practice will continue to change as we come out of lockdown.