It is easy for a client to assume you know best, and as a lawyer, it is easy to assume so as well based on a few keys pieces of information gleaned from a personal information form. Yet, if you don’t get to know each client and their family on a personal level beyond the
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The internet is a wonderful resource, but in the world of law, it becomes a double-edged sword. Clients are simultaneously more educated and educated to a point where they feel they need an expert less and less. Some even decide to become do-it-yourselfers with online tools. Clients are overloaded with information about estate planning when
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Remember when you were interviewing for your first job and everyone reminded you, “Make a good first impression!” You had copies of your resume in a sleek folder or padfolio and you had a notebook and sharp looking pen. You dressed to impress and had run over some lines in your head. First impressions have
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Humans are relationally oriented. That’s why we have communities, it’s why we get lonely. We flourish because we banded together and we continue to share ideas. Relationships are a key component in life, but in business and consequently our legal practices, we forget that. Maintaining relationships can seem time consuming and like a way to
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