Happy New Year from Anguilla!
Lawyers appreciate…
Lawyers appreciate good health, security and happiness – BUT WAIT, doesn’t everyone? Yes. That’s my point. Lawyers are people and the vast majority of them are really good people.
Lawyers appreciate people who treat them with the dignity and respect.
Lawyers appreciate people who recognize lawyer jokes for what they are – a form of bigotry (and who therefore pass on the opportunity to proliferate them).
Basically, I guess this means that lawyers appreciate the same things everybody else does – so whether you are a lawyer or not, may you have the things you appreciate in abundance in 2007.
Happy Holidays!
Note: This is a departure from my usual posts which are directed to Managing Partners and those who assist them in running their firms. This is a "lawyers appreciate" post conceived by Julie Fleming Brown of Life at the Bar and Stephanie West Allen of Idealawg as a way to close out the year with a flurry of appreciation in the legal blogosphere. (I am honoured to have been tapped to do a “Lawyers appreciate" post and to tap three more bloggers to do the same.)
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I’ll see your email and raise you a phone call!
Thank you Michelle (of Golden Practices) for mentioning my email etiquette post and taking the thought further to embrace phone calls:
Michelle goes on to say:
Another rudeness that Gerry’s post makes me think of are abruptly ended phone calls. The failure to say "good-bye," or even "thanks," and simply ending a call by
“Women talk three times as much as men” – WRONG!!!
PROTECT ME!!! The Daily Mail (UK) is either the most fair-minded publication on the planet or the most confused – in an article titled "Women talk three times as much as men, says study" the near-ending reads:
Deborah Cameron, an Oxford University linguistics professor with a special interest in language and gender, said the amount
Bad email etiquette can send client relations plummeting
Here’s a quote from an article called ‘Yours Truly,’ the E-Variations in today’s New York Times:
Many e-mail users don’t bother with a sign-off, and Letitia Baldridge, the manners expert, finds that annoying. “It’s so abrupt,” she said, “and it’s very unfriendly. We need grace in our lives, and I’m not talking about heavenly grace.
How to Add Motivation to Your Delegating
The Secret Step: Asking the delegatee for ideas regarding the assigned task.
Four reasons why your delegatee may have an unanticipated but valuable contribution to make
1) Your delegatee may have performed a similar task in the past for someone who knew something different (and valuable)
2) Your delegatee may be just creative enough
The Art of Delegating – essential to client relations
I have included "delegating" as a client relations skill for 23 years – with it comes increased client satisfaction – without it comes client and associate dissatisfaction – you choose.
Thank you to Rod Boothby of innovation Creators (whom you will find on my blogroll)
“OUTSOURCING” – clients will prefer firms who do it, sooner than you think.
"…$18 million a year in savings to the world’s largest law firm"
"…around-the-clock attention and legal advice for global clients"
This is no longer a hypothetical. Many law firms who think this will not apply to their practice for a decade or two will soon wake up behind the eight ball.
Outsourcing is neither easy
Survey on Retention and Promotion of Women in Law Firms
In July of 2006, The National Association of Women Lawyers challenged law firms to double the number of women equity partners and for corporations to double the number of women chief legal officers by 2015.
The survey released today gives us a score – tells us where we are today, and it’s not a pretty
The end of the legal profession as you knew it…
According to The Lawyer.com today in Australian law firms to make IPO history:
"Three small West Australian firms are set to make legal history with a proposed IPO and listing on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX)."
"Australian law allows non-lawyers to control ownership of firms based in New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia."