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Walker Clark is a
results-oriented consulting firm. Everything we do is aimed at improving
the financial performance and business success of our clients. For law
firms, this means improving the firm's bottom line, managing growth, and paying
attention to all the things that build competitive advantage in an increasingly
competitive legal market.
For corporate law departments, business success means improving the law department's contribution to the overall success of their company, by providing on-target legal advice and services to the business, managing the firm's legal matters in the most cost-effective manner, and turning the legal function from a cost center into a profit center.
Walker Clark concentrates on the three areas that have been most important to the financial success of law firms and corporate law departments over the past 10 years, and which will be most important to continued success in the future.
strategy
One of the biggest performance issues for many law firms and law departments is their inability to implement. They are great at planning, but can never seem to execute as well as they plan.
Law firms tell us that traditional methods of strategic planning no longer deliver desired results. Law departments tell us that they often have difficulty keeping up with, and implementing, the strategic goals and short-term business objectives of their companies.
The world is changing much too quickly for traditional strategic planning and implementation methodologies to continue to produce the results that law firms and leading companies need. Walker Clark offers a better way, more in tune with the realities of today's legal profession. Like many other consultants, we facilitate general strategic planning, but -- more importantly -- we help our clients to develop strategic goals that will produce sustained business performance.
We not only help our clients to grasp the big picture of their future in the legal market. We also work with them to manage the many details upon which business success can turn.
Our merger services for law firms is one such example. To learn more, please click here.
operations
Financial performance happens in the internal operating systems of the organization. Sometimes relatively small details can have gigantic impacts. Likewise, the greatest opportunities to improve financial performance are often buried deep within the core operating systems of the organization.
The people in each law firm and each law department hold the keys to their organization's success. How can a law firm or law department get the most from its investment in people?
Walker Clark helps our clients to install a performance management system that delivers measurable financial results. We use proven psychological tools and motivational techniques that have proven their value to lawyers around the world. Performance management integrates goal-setting, coaching and feedback, performance evaluation, professional development and advancement, and compensation into a single system. Protecting that investment is also important. This is why Walker Clark offers a unique service -- Performance Recovery -- to address individual performance issues that can cause firm-wide impacts on financial performance and efficiency.
Leadership is more than philosophy or slogans. In our experience, the best leaders in the legal profession -- the ones that contribute the most to the bottom line -- demonstrate leadership through everyday behaviors and actions. Leadership consists of well-defined skills that everyone can improve and use to deliver business results.
Walker Clark is the legal profession's leading leadership consultancy. We can help your organization to evaluate its current state of leadership and to develop and execute strategies to capitalize on your leadership strengths and improve leadership behaviors at every level. To learn more, please click here
