In today’s fiercely competitive legal landscape, creating meaningful and lasting client relationships is paramount. For midsized business law firms, this challenge is amplified by mounting demands to provide tailored, timely and proactive counsel across a broad array of practice areas. Yet, the traditionally slower summer months often present firms with unique opportunities to strengthen client relationships through strategic engagement initiatives. This summer, Parker Poe launched "The Path in the Multiverse," an innovative client development program that reimagined client engagement through the power of technology and gamification.

It was the latest edition of a program, The Path, that I created almost a decade ago and that has been featured in The American Lawyer. The Path programming is a direct reflection of the themes we hear in our client service feedback program. The firm uses training, coaching and gamification—with a healthy dose of creativity—to build strategically each year on the skills our clients say separate great attorneys from good ones.