Strategy & Innovation

As Practice Managers, General Managers, Office Managers — let's be honest, it's JOBS not job. Whilst we won’t be able to assist with most of your other responsibilities, we can try and assist you with the decisions you have to make around your firm’s technology requirements and how to better work with your IT provider to hopefully let you hang up that one hat.

Fee-related questions are amongst the trickiest a solicitor needs to answer confidently. This is true whether you view these questions from the clients’ perspective of value-for-money. Or for your firm’s profitability. Before you quote a price to clients you need to answer some really important questions.

A collaboration between The College of Law’s Centre for Legal Innovation (CLI) and the Australasian Legal Practice Management Association (ALPMA), the event aims to shift the mindset of the legal industry – and act as a catalyst for sustained continuous improvement.

Firms took steps to share the burden amongst staff and partners, and to utilise available mechanisms to reduce cost and share the load. Since late March, top-tier and mid-tier law firms have been implementing various measures in response to COVID-19.

The tendency over the last decade has been for firms to focus on major transformation and innovation programmes to drive change. Some of these, especially at larger firms, have had some success but at tremendous cost in time, effort and (often) consulting fees.   More often, though, the most successful and transformative changes have been simple, straightforward, unglamorous and, primarily, unheralded.