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"Do Your Clients Have Good Reason to Hate You or Your Law Firm?"

This post was written by Allison Shields: "Want to know what entrepreneurs and business owners hate about lawyers? If you don't already know (or can't guess), take a look at this article: Top 10 Reasons Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers from Venture Hacks by guest author Scott Edward Walker of Walker Corporate Law Group.

There isn't much that comes as a surprise in this article. Most lawyers are well aware that these are the common complaints made about lawyers, and they claim that those complaints don't apply to their practice, and yet those complaints persist. Why? Is it just a misperception or are lawyers still failing in these areas?

Take a good, hard look at your own practice - can you improve in any of these areas?"

A few of the areas she discusses include:

Failure to communicate clearly
"Overlawyering" or taking a one size fits all approach
Being bad listeners
Giving the lion's share of the actual work to younger, less experienced lawyers
Wasting time on insignificant issues

Full text and the active link are available at the source site listed below.

Source: Legal Ease Blog, 20 January 2010. Reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on January 21, 2010 (boomark / email).