Consulting for law firms
Law firms are constantly changing. In order to take advantage of the opportunities of change and to efficiently counteract risks, it is necessary …
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Consulting for patent law firms
Patent law firms are threatened like no other firm by the digitalization of all processes in their business model …
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Consulting for auditing and tax consulting companies
Auditors and tax consultants are currently experiencing a major upheaval in their businesses…
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Consulting for law departments
The legal department of a company is a department that can only work efficiently for the company if …
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The legal market are constantly changing. In order to take advantage of the opportunities of change and to efficiently counteract risks, law firms need to adapt.
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Auditors and tax consultants are currently experiencing a major upheaval in their business areas …
... moreWhat we do
Strategy and cultural development processes
We organize processes for strategic positioning and take into account the dynamics of upcoming changes.
Optimize profit distribution
We help law firms to further develop their profit distribution system in order to meet upcoming challenges.
Implement
changes
We initiate or accompany change processes that arise for economic, organisational or social reasons.
Improve governance
When we analyse a law firm from an economic point of view, we quickly know where a mistake is taking place. This is because, in conjunction with our key figures from other consultancies, we know the deviation exactly. No one gets to the point faster!
Market positioning analyses
We know the market in all its details so well that we know what kind of law firm is looking for advice when we call.
Achieve sales and profit growth
We help law firms to recognize their place in the market, to compare profitability and to draw the right conclusions.
Benchmarking
Our consulting work often consists of helping partnerships to understand in which market segment they are active and which options for further development arise from this.
Strategy and cultural development processes
We organize processes for strategic positioning and take into account the dynamics of upcoming changes.
Optimize profit distribution
We help law firms to further develop their profit distribution system in order to meet upcoming challenges.
Market positioning analyses
We know the market in all its details so well that we know what kind of law firm is looking for advice when we call. This not only saves time and money, but also helps to focus quickly on what is relevant.
Implement changes
We initiate or accompany change processes that arise for economic, organisational or social reasons.
Improve economies
When we analyse a law firm from an economic point of view, we quickly know where a mistake is taking place. This is because, in conjunction with our key figures from other consultancies, we know the deviation exactly. No one gets to the point faster!
Benchmarking
We help law firms to recognize their place in the market, to compare profitability and to draw the right conclusions.
Our methods for facilitating change:
Systemic organisational development
We look at law firms with the holistic view of the systemic engineer who analyses the functionalities of a system. Thus we do not come to quick conclusions based on apparently “negative” phenomena from the perspective of a consultant, but work on the patterns of organizational problem-solving skills. All of a sudden everything is much easier!
Coaching
If advice is also advice, then it is about being able to ask the right questions. This approach differentiates us from all other consultants who only know the answers to questions they have asked themselves.
Mediation
We use crisis situations and conflicts to make it easier to manage upcoming changes. Conflicts of interest are always present, the question is how to deal with them.
Project Management
Those who know how to organise partnerships themselves also know how to set up projects to ensure sustainable success. We don’t get tangled up in internal intrigues and we don’t let ourselves be taken in by one side: Our promise is impartiality until the end of the project.
Meeting Facilitation
We facilitate partnerships and other groups thereof with a clear view of necessary changes and agreements by consensus. In doing so, we dissolve blockades and defuse contradictions.
Training
Lawyers, auditors, tax consultants and patent attorneys are often highly qualified – they have only had little contact with the topics of office management. To avoid reinventing the wheel, it is sometimes helpful to get an overview.
TEAM
Testimonials
Feedback about Christoph H. Vaagt
“After our joint work in 2003/4, we have now worked with most of the globally renowned law firm advisors. The only one who made a lasting change for us was you!” (Managing Partner of leading firm in Austria)
Support in merger negotiations
“Mr. Groß, you have done a terrific job as a consultant, and I don’t say it like that. I pay you my deepest respect. Without your support, this trial would be over. Thanks to your support, we can better assess the realities – within the scope of our possibilities.
I don’t want to link this mail to factual issues, but simply to say thank you. I have learned a lot today – from you.”
Example of our “Real Time Change” consulting approach
An example of our “real time change” approach was provided by the newly elected managing partner of a large law firm, whom Christoph H. Vaagt visited for the first time. After a 1.5 hour conversation, which served to get to know each other from the consultants’ point of view, he said: “Dear Mr. Vaagt, please settle this conversation, I have learned so much, it is worth much more than I could imagine”.
Projects with clear objectives
Just like building a house, with your help we have radically changed our firm and thus created the basis for further growth.
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Attempting the impossible: Legal and compliance departments in a systemic predicament
– a provocation. This is my presentation title at Legal Live 2021: a critical review of law and compliance, seen from the perspective of systems theory…. When? on 9.11.2021, at 12:30 ! Where? at Legal Live, a virtual congress format. https://legal-live.net/fur-besucher/#programm (in German)
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