Right now,
clients hire lawyers who they hope will meet some or most of those criteria, some or most of the time, in between our other numerous obligations.
As I, and many others have consistently stated,
clients hire lawyers they know, like and trust.
Clients hire lawyers they know, like or trust (or are referred by someone they do).
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Clients hire lawyers because they have a problem that needs to be solved - not because they love going to court,» he says.
Q: «If
clients hire lawyers, why market The Firm?»
Clients hire lawyers rather than firms.
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Clients hire lawyers because they believe that the lawyer is all that stands between them and disaster.»
Clients hire lawyers for their expertise, advice and experience.
There are three basic reasons why
clients hire lawyers: expertise, efficiency, and to assume risk.
Most obviously,
clients hire lawyers to do things the client can not do competently on their own, or that a lawyer can do better than the client because of greater experience.
It is a truism that
clients hire lawyers not law firms.
Jonathan: The running joke in the industry is
clients hire lawyers, and they fire law firms.
The guide's results are the culmination of a six - month research period that included extensive interviews with corporate
clients hiring lawyers to handle their litigation.
And once
a client hires its lawyers, it can again turn to Legal Operations and big data to determine how long it should take the lawyers to do a task and whether the work is being done efficiently.
In this dispute over legal fees (Pihl Law Corp. v. McCall, 2011 BCSC 328)
the client hired a lawyer to help resolve a $ 100,000.00 tax bill with CRA.
In the past
clients hired lawyers irrespective of the «Firm» but more and more the «Firm» offers massive value to clients in the delivery of legal services with technology as the backbone that contributes to the «Firm» value.
She also proffers that a litigator could use the same tools to increase prices for
a client hiring a lawyer close to a trial date.
This is, in many ways, the most critical one, because
clients hire the lawyer first, the firm second.
A client hires a lawyer with an unwinnable case.
Therefore, if
a client hires a lawyer to represent him or her in a collaborative divorce, the client knows (and should be clearly informed by the lawyer before the lawyer is hired) not to expect his or her lawyer to zealously advocate for his or her position in an adversarial system because collaborative divorce is, by design, not an adversarial system.
Not exact matches
But if we were busy dealing with
lawyers and accountants, while interviewing,
hiring and training support staff, how could we generate awareness of our brand and uncover new
clients?
This should be self - evident There are almost no opportunities for a
lawyer in English Canada to argue a case in Quebec - most aren't called in Quebec and when
clients have a Quebec case they, quite sensibly,
hire a Quebec
lawyer.
Rudy Giuliani, recently
hired to
lawyer for President Donald Trump, appeared on Sean Hannity's Old - Timey Propaganda Hour last night and promptly talked his
client into a fresh morass of legal and political jeopardy.
One of the most important pieces of advice we give
clients at my office is to take responsibility for your own immigration case, even when you have
hired representation by a
lawyer or immigration consultant.
Firms would have spend extra time training and supervising their salespeople, teaching them what it means to put
clients» interests first, and
hiring lawyers to make sure that all costs are properly disclosed.
Abdeslam has already
hired a French
lawyer, Frank Berton, who told the regional newspaper Voix du Nord that his
client was «anxious to explain himself» in France.
The rule can raises all sorts of questions: For instance, if a
lawyer hires a public relations firm, or does so on behalf of a
client, does
lawyer -
client confidentiality apply?
But there's still no way for the public to see what
clients might
hire individual lawmakers, many of whom are
lawyers.
As you can read from my
client debt relief success stories, getting out of debt and saving money are the fundamental reasons to
hire a debt settlement
lawyer in Los Angeles.
If a
client is willing to pay for an hour of my time to hear my opinion of their financial situation, I know that price wasn't the sole criterion for
hiring a
lawyer.
An AP analysis found that one - third of the 59 new EPA
hires it tracked had been registered lobbyists or
lawyers for fossil fuel producers, chemical manufacturers or other corporate
clients.
The London office of Latham & Watkins has continued its lateral
hiring spree with the appointment of funds
lawyer Tom Alabaster from major firm
client the Carlyle Group.
Buyers will discover that
clients want to
hire only the particular
lawyer who is selling, no one else.
I do think there is a valid * business * reason to improve the image of
lawyers: because we want to encourage
clients to
hire us, and they probably will be more likely to do that if we're not pariahs.
Did Kerik go out and
hire a pricey firm, figuring that his
lawyers would write off his fees afterwards in exchange for the publicity generated from representing a high profile
client?
«A lot of my
clients are farmers and owners / operators of businesses in Windsor and would never in their life
hire a
lawyer at $ 750 an hour or any hourly rate like that and don't see why they should be obligated to pay those kinds of fees just because they're in a bit of a financial bind.»
Here's the flip side of the «good business» of firing «bad»
clients: Knowing how to
hire a «good»
lawyer and when to fire a «bad» one:
«We have trained a very bright generation of women and minority
lawyers who have gone to our corporate
clients and who now decide whether to
hire us,» Mr. Hanlon said.
Clients (individuals as well as businesses)
hire lawyers, not law firms.
Potential
clients want to see what others have to say about
lawyers they
hired, and any attorney who avoids this forum is missing a critical chance to manage his or her image.
One might equally say that
clients don't actually
hire any
lawyers with fewer than five years» experience, yet those
lawyers receive their own pages.
And are GCs
hiring outside counsel with «brand recognition,» without engaging in due diligence to determine whether those outside
lawyers best serve the corporate
client.
For example, in some cases,
lawyers never spoke to their
clients or failed to
hire experts, read documents or interview their own witnesses.
I am passionate about making sure
lawyers understand each component of an integrated legal web marketing strategy, not for what it is, or how it works, but for the way in which their
clients use each component to make a decision to
hire them or not...
claims that most millennials he's
hired in his firm have not matched the quality of older
lawyers, and that their level of self - involvement makes it difficult for them to put the needs of
clients first.
Many
lawyers realize that it takes their
clients a while to decide to
hire them, so want their users to read the information on their site to establish expertise.
When the
client comes to see you, you should point out that the
hiring of a
lawyer is an important decision and the
client should request references from attorneys.
Those who responded to the survey also felt that blogs are an effective tool in persuading
clients to
hire a particular
lawyer or law firm.
It is imperative to get the appropriate medical treatment first, and then to
hire an experienced injury
lawyer that can effectively handle the insurance company on the behalf of their
client in order to make sure that they provide the full amount of compensation for the medical procedures.
These changes will hopefully break the brokerage house - style business model so that the public can trust the legal advertising it sees and
clients can take comfort in knowing that the
lawyer they
hire is going to be the
lawyer who actually works on their case.