Since then, margins have shrunk because expenses continue to rise, while revenue has flatlined or fallen thanks to
reduced demand for legal services.
Not exact matches
Women, and Generation X and Y lawyers more generally, are pushing
for these changes on the supply side; clients determined to
reduce legal fees and increase flexible
service are pulling on the
demand side.
Reduced demand for traditional
legal services (typically billed by the hour) also means there is less
demand for articling students and a tendency towards over-supply of lawyers (while paradoxically at the same time, many rural and smaller communities don't have enough lawyers).
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While developing strategies to cope with the lagging
demand for legal services, lawyer management must understand their partners» expectations so that the former may develop and begin to implement strategies to
reduce costs and enhance the volume of profitable business which, in turn, leads to increased revenue per lawyer and profits per partner.
Our challenge is to meet client
demands for reduced costs and manage their expectations re
service levels, all the while providing high - quality
legal services in these stressful economic times.
A growing
demand for legal services; greater volume of work; higher expectations; quicker turnaround times; higher lawyer salaries; higher operating costs;
reduced budgets and lawyer attrition are some of the challenges that lawyers face today.
In addition, that
reducing pricing model permits the firm to increase revenue through the ability to access and satisfy the latent unmet
demand for legal services.