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Developing Thriving Practice Groups: The Law Firm's Guide to Success

Course Description:

Many firms have embraced the viability and necessity of practice groups, yet still struggle to find the right balance for leadership, effectiveness, and execution.

In fact, too many groups wallow in the murky waters of a poorly defined, over ambitious, even ignored practice group plans. 

CoursE highlights:

In one fast-paced hour, our expert faculty will explore how to effectively build, lead, market, and manage your firm’s practice groups.  During this practical event, you’ll also learn how to:

• Create a written business purpose plan for each group that is realistic and implementable
• Avoid common pitfalls that plague practice groups plans
• Develop strategic group plans and follow up plans for real input from firm leadership
• Perform a rational review of practice  group plans, business functions and client needs
• Define each groups business purpose in terms of clients, the legal services it will offer, and its geographic market
• Identify key goals of each group, and outline actionable items
• Develop, and define the real-life responsibilities of practice group leaders
• Successfully  market your practice groups for the good of the firm

FACulty:

Susan Raridon Lambreth, J.D., M.B.A., Principal, LawVision Group LLC

Susan Lambreth has over 25 years of experience as a consultant to the legal profession. Ms. Lambreth consults on leadership, practice management and strategic issues affecting the future of law firms and the legal profession. She works with managing partners, practice group leaders and executive committees. Ms. Lambreth has helped many of the largest firms in the U.S. implement strong practice group management (including over 30% of the AmLaw 100) and train their Practice Group Leaders. She has trained over 4,000 lawyers, who hold firm or practice management roles, how to lead and manage more effectively and had trained over 500 lawyers and other legal professionals in legal project management. Ms. Lambreth has helped law firms of all sizes improve their profitability and enhance their lawyers’ leadership and management skills. She is nationally recognized as one of the top leadership and practice management consultants for law firms.

Ms. Lambreth is co-author of Achieving Peak Performance Through Practice Management: A Practical Handbook and author of The Practice Group Leader’s Handbook for Success.

Prior to founding LawVision Group, she was with Hildebrandt International (more recently Hildebrandt Baker Robbins) for almost 20 years, being one of three consultants there for over 20 years, and with Altman & Weil for almost seven years. She chaired many of the Hildebrandt Institute conferences and led several of the most successful roundtables for law firm professionals.

Debra Baker, Legal Vertical Strategies, LLC

Debra Baker, Esq., helps providers of legal services and products drive revenue through the execution of client-focused business strategies. She serves as chair of the LVS Law Firm Services Group and is author of the blog Law Firm Transitions.

With more than 20 years experience working across the legal vertical, Debra incorporates a disciplined, cross-organizational approach to help clients grow their business. Her experience includes senior level marketing positions for both a Global 100 law firm and a leading e-discovery company. An award-winning legal journalist, she covered law practice management and ethics for the ABA Journal. 

Debra’s in-depth experience working with law firm, legal technology, and corporate legal business models brings a multi-dimensional perspective to clients looking to better position their services and products. She has a proven record identifying new markets, targeting clients and building integrated marketing campaigns to generate leads and expand market share.

 At LVS, Debra advises law firms and legal service providers on how to develop internal programs customized around the needs and expectations of existing clients. Her approach includes the use of financial modeling, market research, competitive intelligence, and client interviews to develop client relationship management programs with metrics built in to measure return on investment.

She is a member of the Illinois bar.

MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE:

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Pricing:

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