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64 Law Firms with the Most Improved Client Service

These firms are making a bet. They are betting investments in client service in a perceived fragile market will deliver immediate and lasting value — both strategic and financial. Only 64 law firms managed to improve client service performance in 2024 — according to corporate counsel. This equates to just…

Michael RynowecerApril 17, 2024

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Clients Single Out the BTI Client Service 30 2024 — Law Firms Best at Client Service

It's all organic. Clients — more than 300 of them — identify the law firms best at client service — along the 17 dimensions they say are the most crucial drivers. These legal decision makers single out a firm, rank them, and explain why — with no prompts or suggestions.…

BTIConsultingApril 10, 2024

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Up, Out, Wait or Quit: Associates Weigh in on Staying and Leaving their Firms

Tantalizing, treacherous, business development fears and the Prize. This is how associates describe making partner. It's a high-stakes game where the outcome is binary — make partner or face an undefined future. A few firms are publicly downplaying junior associates’ importance. The reality is law firms need strong senior associates…

BTIConsultingApril 3, 2024

The Mad Clientist

Breaking Down Law Firm Business Development Cultures: Struggle or Strategize

A BTI flash survey of almost 700 attorneys reveals decidedly different law firm business development cultures. Underappreciated and maligned by some — worshipped by others — business development is creating the next strategic and cultural divide. We asked these attorneys to describe their business development culture — the results look…

Michael RynowecerMarch 27, 2024

The Mad Clientist

The Lateral Partner Tsunami About to Hit Hard

There is only one group with more interest in lateral partners than law firm leaders — the partners themselves. Everything about law firms is changing. Partner moves are transitioning from phenomena to mainstream — and then will hit bubble territory. The deafeningly loud alarm bell for the upcoming tsunami is…

Michael RynowecerMarch 20, 2024

The Mad Clientist

36 Vexing Problems Facing Clients: Everything Else is Low-Rate Noise

Novel and complex legal needs are rapidly eclipsing the straightforward and difficult needs. The law firms snagging this work learned quickly how to pivot and change strategies. Their client feedback gave them early insight into new needs and these firms developed new business tactics. They target corporate counsel’s most vexing…

Michael RynowecerMarch 13, 2024

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64 Law Firms with the Most Improved Client Service

Clients Single Out the BTI Client Service 30 2024 — Law Firms Best at Client Service

Up, Out, Wait or Quit: Associates Weigh in on Staying and Leaving their Firms

Breaking Down Law Firm Business Development Cultures: Struggle or Strategize

The Lateral Partner Tsunami About to Hit Hard

36 Vexing Problems Facing Clients: Everything Else is Low-Rate Noise