22. The Attorney Journey Matters to the Client
Attorneys have always cared about more than just their pay. They care about their working conditions, welfare and career development. What's new is that they now have a voice and a choice like never before, and so law firms are listening. Clients are too.
April 29, 2022 at 09:43 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Lean Adviser
Ever since Roman times, attorneys cared about more than just their pay. They've always cared about their working conditions, welfare and career development. What's new is that they now have a voice and a choice like never before, and so law firms are listening. Clients are too.
The previous lesson ended the series on the "attorney journey" as seen through the stages of an assignment. As with any Lean Adviser journey, it wrapped up with "improvement" as a key standalone topic. We looked at how a lawyer with a better toolset and a healthy mindset has an inbuilt self-improvement mechanism, and why this is so valuable to clients.
This next series interposes the standpoints; this lesson asks if clients care about the "attorney journey," and the next lesson will pose the proposition in reverse — do attorneys care about their client's experience? Then, in the last of these three lessons, we'll see how the solution to both the attorney journey and the client experience is the same thing.
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