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5 Reasons Clients Love to Call Their Law Firms

Clients tell us there are 5 times when they truly enjoy calling their outside counsel. These busy legal decision makers have little time for optional phone calls—which makes these 5 especially telling. These calls are: Review a delivered work productClients inevitably have questions, comments, and changes. Your clients view these…

Michael RynowecerDecember 5, 2018

The Mad Clientist

How Clients Hire: Clients Using Attorney Bios in New Ways to Hire

Clients are using attorney bios as a selection vehicle—taking attorney assignments into their own hands. Clients are going online, picking the attorneys they want on their matters—and telling law firms exactly who they want. Think of this new phenomenon as a self-service bar for clients. Corporate counsel used to use…

Michael RynowecerNovember 28, 2018

The Mad Clientist

The Pendulum Swings Back to Outside Counsel

What goes around comes around. Finally. Clients are sending substantially more work to outside counsel for the 2nd year in a row. The spending increases are widespread and across the board. 10 Practice Areas Slated for Growth. 5 to Shrink.Cybersecurity and M&A Lead All Growth Spending is increasing most in…

Michael RynowecerNovember 14, 2018

The Mad Clientist

1/3 of Law Firms Up Their Marketing and BD Spending

33% of law firms are increasing their Marketing and Business Development (MBD) budgets. This is 3 times more firms than last year—making this the largest number of firms increasing their MBD spending in 9 years. This increased investment in MBD may just give these firms an unprecedented edge in 2019.…

Michael RynowecerNovember 7, 2018

The Mad Clientist

66 Law Firms Leading Litigation as Market Surges

You are looking at the highest levels of corporate legal spending in a decade. High-stakes work is growing like a weed. Clients are expecting an influx of new matters and plan to spend more on existing matters. Clients are cutting their internal budgets to fund new outside counsel needs, Why?…

Michael RynowecerOctober 24, 2018

The Mad Clientist

Making Better Associates Faster

Associates want more than money. They want some recognition—not much, but some—and they want to feel like they have a future. A big part of this sense of future is feeling like their firm is investing in them. Law firms can take immediate steps to make the future more obvious…

Michael RynowecerOctober 3, 2018

The Mad Clientist

Radical, Crazy and Off-the-Rails Moves to Expect from Law Firms

Nothing—including robots, AI, and technology—is as exciting as law firm behaviors. Law firms will become emboldened, impatient, highly strategic, and desperate as the more aggressive law firms make ever-bolder moves on the market. Stealing once untouchable laterals is commonplace. Grabbing practice groups is part of the new norm. Baker McKenzie…

Michael RynowecerSeptember 26, 2018

The Mad Clientist

More Clients than Ever Cutting Law Firm Rosters; Sets New Record

Clients are at it again. No sooner had clients cut their law firm rosters to record lows than they turn around and start cutting again. But on a much wider scale. 22% to 30% of clients are cutting, or about to cut, their law firm rosters. This sets a new…

Michael RynowecerSeptember 19, 2018

The Mad Clientist

Top 7 Client Innovation and Technology Needs

Two viewpoints dominate innovation—clients and law firms. The gap between the 2 is large. Clients say only half of all law firms are showing any sign of innovation. The law firms who are among the first to close this gap will win the innovation race, or at least take the…

Michael RynowecerSeptember 12, 2018

The Mad Clientist

The 52 Law Firms Clients Single Out as Best at Innovation

Who knew. Law firms are innovative. Well, at least half of them are, according to top legal decision makers. Clients point to 338 law firms who bring a meaningful innovation or use of technology. But, most firms bring only select aspects of client needs and priorities. These firms are on…

Michael RynowecerSeptember 5, 2018