Since 2002, Walker Clark has been a leader in management consulting services to the legal profession.
building sustainable performance and profitability
For many small and midsize law firms, the real barrier to stronger performance isn’t demanding clients or high overhead — it’s the lack of consistent, effective quality assurance in day-to-day legal work. Without it, even the best lawyers can struggle to deliver the reliability and results that clients expect.
At Walker Clark LLC, we specialize in helping law firms like yours build simple, affordable, and sustainable quality management systems that actually work in a busy legal practice. As global leaders in quality management for the legal profession, we’ve helped firms around the world improve client satisfaction, reduce costly mistakes, and increase long-term profitability — without adding unnecessary complexity.
consulting services to meet the real-world needs of small and midsize law firms today
… and tomorrow
strategies for changing legal services markets
We help lawyers worldwide to develop well-informed, realistic business and marketing strategies. We continue to work with our clients to help them get the best possible business results on their strategic investment of time, effort, intellect, and resources.
leadership for
a changing profession
Managing a law firm is not like herding cats. With one of the most respected and experienced leadership consulting services in the legal profession, we lead our clients away from the junk science and management myths to develop effective leadership skills that anyone can master.
sustainable profitability in a changing business world
We help law firms identify and capture the "low hanging fruit" in their internal operations, to make smarter investments in their people, and to build long-term sustainable profitability.
Are you a solo practice or small law firm?
No law firm — not even a solo practice — is “too small” for Walker Clark services and support. In fact, we have served more small law firms in more countries than any other legal management consultancy. We’re a small enterprise, too. We understand that special challenges and opportunities that you face.
Contact us to schedule a complimentary 30-minute consultation about we can help you build sustainable success for your practice.
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new posts and publications
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Win-Win Pricing for Law Firms
on the Walker Clark Bookshelf
How can law firms continue to compete successfully in increasingly price-sensitive markets for legal services, while still assuring sustainable levels of profitability for themselves?
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Integrating Business Planning, Compensation, and Career Advancement
The competition for legal talent has never been fiercer.
One strategy stands out for its clarity, simplicity, and effectiveness, especially for small and midsize law firms: integrating business planning, performance-based compensation, and career advancement into a unified career management path for senior associates and partners.
This post explores the structure and benefits of such an integrated system, how each component can be tailored to your firm’s unique needs, and why it is a transformative force for law firm performance and long-term lawyer retention.
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Thought Leadership in Regulation Analysis
Assessing and understanding the risks your firm faces are only the first steps in developing an effective framework for regulatory analysis.
The regulation research and risk planning won’t get off the ground unless it has firm sponsorship from the top of your firm down, which brings us to the focus of today’s piece: leadership.
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Assessing Risk: A Law Firm’s Best Strategy for Managing Regulatory Fluctuation
In the a recent commentary on this topic, Senior Consultant Sarah Max focused on the importance of regular, intentional monitoring of regulatory issues to avoid complications for your firm and clients.
A centralized strategy for assessing your current practices, gathering information about the effectiveness of those processes, and integrating credible source information into your processes is the most reliable way to assure the most protection for your firm.
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Five Ideas for Better Partners Meetings
Better partners meetings build better partnerships.
Some law firms avoid holding partners meetings except when absolutely necessary.
This is a short-sighted mistake, because it denies the firm access to one of its most important assets: the collective experience, insights, and wisdom of the partnership.
Here are five suggestions that Walker Clark clients have used to make their partners meetings more productive.
