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 profitabity 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.
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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"Trump-Proofing" Your Law Firm
As we at Walker Clark have been meeting since January 2025 with clients and professional friends worldwide to discuss their priorities and concerns for the next 12 to 24 months, many of them – across the world and the political spectrum – have used the same phrase to describe their anxiety about the uncertainties that lie ahead: “How can we Trump-proof our firm?”
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The Middle Way Through Impermanence and Change
This is the third installment of an advance serialization of a ground-breaking new book by Norman K. Clark and Lisa M. Walker Johnson, Wisdom in Law Firm Management, to be published in September 2025.
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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.
