“Just go away.” “Get out of my face.” “I don’t practice law so would you please stop thinking you can practice IT?” You can’t deny that you have thought these things, more than once. Although, given the bright person you are and your strong sense of job preservation, you’ve never said them loud enough to be heard. But all of us in law firm management, whether in IT or elsewhere, deal with the frustration of lawyers who are happy to tell us how to do our jobs, and are fully confident that they are knowledgeable enough to do so. Even when they aren’t.
Get over it. They own the place and that’s not going to change. They especially the partners have every right to want to know how their money is being spent, how their resources are being used, and what they’re going to be expected to do to practice law. So the challenge for us is to work with the lawyers in a productive way that gives them confidence, and us freedom.
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