Managing Partners, Practise Group Leaders

LAW FIRMS: SOLE ATTORNEYS

Challenge

We advise Managing Partners in their daily interactions with the partnership, preparation of retreats or facing particularly difficult choices.

In particular, we help them to prepare for their job and master the first 100 days.

What we do for individual lawyers?

Individual Lawyers turn to us, when they are in front of a difficult career choice: due to our understanding of the markets, and even knowing most law firms anyway, we can counsel them to make the right choices. Examples include:

  • Magic Circle Partner whishing to reflect on his Business Case,
  • Real Estate transaction lawyer looking for a better work-life balance;
  • Owner of law firms when reflecting on how to organise a partnership including difficult choices around profit sharing an decision making.

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Our range of customers

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 account for this conversation, I have learned so much, it is worth much more than I could have imagined”.

We can name the following cases from the last 20 years of our law firm consulting, with many examples overlapping; at the core, it is always about culture change:

  • Clarification of the partnership model of an insolvency administrator who has been the sole owner of a large regional company with up to 4 locations so far 
  • Supporting the head of the startup desk of a national law firm in further developing the business model and cooperation with future partners