The Creative Counsel: Rethinking the Attorney-Client Relationship
by Matthew Homann on Jun 17, 2010
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The slides from my recent presentation to the Association of Corporate Counsel meeting in St. Louis, MO.
The slides from my recent presentation to the Association of Corporate Counsel meeting in St. Louis, MO.
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I also get a chance to work with senior executives of big companies as I facilitate their meetings.
Once they find out I’m a lawyer, I get to hear a litany of the things they hate about their counsel.
One of the big challenges with lawyers, is that we spend all of our “creative thinking time” solving our clients’ problems.
First mover advantage
A bunch of inventors waiting to be the second to have a great idea. Innovators.
Can we even go back? Some big changes.... Only partially driven by the economy
Truth is, it seems like everything has changed.....
File metaphor....
Home experience drives work expectations.... Facebook, Twitter,,, want to know what counsel is thinking as they’re thinking it.
The first three phrases they teach in law school? I don’t know, it depends and maybe. Although “I don’t know” often goes by the alternative term: “Let me research that....”
Which is it?
What’s your biggest fear when you call or meet with our lawyers?
Our lawyers should ...
Our lawyers are ...
Incentivize use of young lawyers by firms, not discourage it.