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6. Planning the PlanAt the beginning of any legal project, the lawyer needs to understand the client's goals in order to take the next steps — resource planning, budgeting and strategizing.
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9. What Makes You a Go-To Lawyer for Your Clients?What does it mean for the relationship to be a success?
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Getting to Client Alignment With the Sharp AROThis is the time to revisit the client's goals and parameters and agree on a realistic, clearly articulated range of outcomes.
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Lean Law At-a-GlanceA handy tool for visualizing legal project lifecycle management.
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3. Client Goals vs. Client OutcomesAn essential step is analyzing the client's goals carefully and then calibrating them against risk, in light of all the uncertainties.
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8. Change Your Communication Approach to Change the RelationshipClients want communications from you to be lean but it goes further than that. Pay attention to communications from clients for the keys to a good relationship.
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11. Understanding Clients' Goals and ExpectationsLaw firms and clients want the same things from the relationship, and it becomes obvious that for each issue, there is a matching interest on other side of the two-sided market.
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Solving the Planning ConundrumWhich comes first—accept the client's goals in order to take the next steps or investigate to arrive at feasible objectives?
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How to Gauge the Progress Perennials: Money, Time, and MotivationAs time passes and costs rise, be aware that your client's enthusiasm may wane.
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6. What Clients Want and Don't WantLaw firms need to understand what clients want from the relationship and what they don't want to see in a project. In the same way, individual lawyers need to understand what their firms want and don't want in a project.
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