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Client Service Demands Go Chaotic – Confounding All But These 55 Law Firms The Mad Clientist

Client Service Demands Go Chaotic – Confounding All But These 55 Law Firms

Legal complexity isn’t just a fact of life. Add volatility and unpredictable regulatory changes, and you get chaos. It creates jolting changes in client needs and expectations – with no notice. This is no trend. It’s life as a corporate counsel. It’s an evolutionary leap in business and law. It’s…
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August 6, 2025
Clients Single Out the Law Firms Best at Client Service Performance The Mad Clientist

Clients Single Out the Law Firms Best at Client Service Performance

Executive Orders. On-again, off-again regulations. 180-degree turns in enforcement. CEO demands. It’s chaotic out there. Only 2 things bring order: problem-solving and exceptional delivery. Otherwise known as elite client service. Think of these firms as the relief valve giving corporate counsel precious breathing room and thinking time. Clients point to…
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July 23, 2025
Associates Catch the Rankings Bug – Should You Be Thanking Chambers? The Mad Clientist

Associates Catch the Rankings Bug – Should You Be Thanking Chambers?

It’s Chambers’ season. Congratulations to all the attorneys ranked. Everyone’s noticing as firms broaden their celebrations – louder LinkedIn posts, firmwide shout-outs, retreat callouts. You’d be hard-pressed to find a firm leader who doesn’t tout their growing list of Chambers-ranked partners. But one group is taking especially keen interest: associates.…
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June 25, 2025
The 27 Invisible Places Where Clients Recommend Your Law Firm The Mad Clientist

The 27 Invisible Places Where Clients Recommend Your Law Firm

71% of new law firm relationships begin the same way: With an unprompted peer-to-peer recommendation — casual, unsolicited, and usually invisible. Even the most enduring partnerships often start with a single offhand suggestion from one in-house counsel to another. It’s All Organic, Casual and Uncontrolled These organic recommendations happen everywhere,…
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June 18, 2025
The Innovation Confidence Gap: What Law Firms Really Think About Themselves The Mad Clientist

The Innovation Confidence Gap: What Law Firms Really Think About Themselves

For years, law firm leaders have whispered a quiet untruth: “We’re just not built to be innovative. We’re married to precedent.” They say it with a certain inevitability. As if the very strengths of law firms – rigor, risk-awareness, legal prowess, and precedent – make innovation impossible. But – the…
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June 11, 2025
Jerks Welcome. Partners Weigh in on Firms Who Tolerate Jerks The Mad Clientist

Jerks Welcome. Partners Weigh in on Firms Who Tolerate Jerks

“We don’t tolerate jerks.” It’s practically boilerplate – part of every onboarding, recruiting pitch, and partner meeting. What is the reality? Have law firms quelled bad behavior or has it gone stealth? As law firms face unprecedented cultural shift, the great lateral rotation, and deeply dividing political head winds –…
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June 4, 2025