Practice Management

Putting out fires--permanently.

By Dan Hull

WAC?'s Holden Oliver wrote a piece in late 2006 I love called "The Art of 'Subsequent Remedial' Advice". The point: if you do litigation, you are presented with all manner of improvements and changes a good client can and should make to its operations right away. Like now, before the next order is received or shipment made. But how many of us don't say or do anything, or delay, because we think it's not part of our litigator's job? Or we think it's a problem we'll mention to the dweeb transactional and tax lawyers down the hall--the ones the client has used to plan and grow for decades--when and if we get around to it?

Litigation often hands you the chance to add value immediately--and solve an operations problem before you finish the barest outline of the Answer.

Full post as published by What About Clients? on April 08, 2009 (boomark / email).