5 Important Advices to the Lawyers Who Consider Opening an Office

5 Important Advices to the LawyersWho Consider Openingan Office

It is almost each lawyer’s dream to open an individual office. However, realizing this dream brings too many questions along. We have compiled the relevant 5 substantial topicsand examined them closer as follows for you.

1. Partnership vs Opening an Individual Office

One of the most important problematic issues for a lawyer, who will open an individual office for the first time is to determine whether to do this alone or through establishing a partnership. We are of the opinion that starting a new business with a partner, to whom you may trust is the most rational way to proceed. Of course, in such circumstances, trust is the most crucial benchmark.You must keep in mind before getting into a partnership that the trust of your partnerscould both “disgrace and honor” you.

Well, why getting into a partnership?

• To start with, getting into a cost sharing partnership could carry you a step forward by enabling you to spend your money more diversely and wisely rather than making a greater amount of provisionsfor costs individually.
• The other fundamental matter is the “conversion of ideas”. The principle of “two heads are better than one” could provide you with a different perspective in terms of resolution of problematic issues.

Moreover, managing an office through partnership could be useful in terms of covering expenses of the lawyers that you employ in parallel with the increase in the number of cases you undertake as well asyour eagerness to provide legal services in different fields of law. Getting into partnership in various businesses woulddemonstrate your office more corporate thanitactually is,caused bythe speediness of hiring new employees as well as your high capacity to get through your works.

2. System

The tradition of corporate functioning is simply the signature of your office. Therefore, while allocating the case files amongst your employeesby considering theirrespective field of specialization would increase the success rate of your office due to efficiency-based allocation within the office.

Another crucial system relatedtopic is income and expense tracking. As a founder, you need to calculate your budget by duly analyzing not only the income and expenses of your office but also the payments to be made to the employees. Making a distinction between the personal expenditures and income and expenditures of the office makes the relevant analyze difficult. Therefore, they need a professional technic in this regard. Advopass is a digital tracking tool organizing your income and expenses independently of your personal expenditures, which enables you to better manage the economic situation of your office.

Please note that: “in advocacy, a month feeds a day and vice versa.”

3. Digitalization

The provision of an insightregarding the fields of activity of your office, personal backgrounds of your employees, location of your office would facilitate the decision-making process of your potential clients while choosing the professional to consult with. People tend to use search engines at first when they face with a legal issue. Your legal texts amongst the relevant results would not only be remedial but also an opportunity to recognize your law office and become one of your clients. Therefore, producing a plentiful content and publish the same through digital channels would be helpful in terms of both increasing your revenue and recognition. Making the most of the internet is the most intelligentmethod considering the advertising ban that applies to this profession.

4) Client Relations

Advocacy: is a commercial profession requiring selling a solution to the client but also a social profession requiring to be confidant. Therefore, communication is an indispensable element of advocacy. Please note that through your communication abilities, you not only represent yourself, but alsoyour brand.

You will see that your client portfolio will expand at various places and times unexpectedly, such as gyms and theatres when you genuinely present your business cardby adopting a self-confident attitudeafter you introduce yourselfwith a smiling face. A lawyer is a person who can commercialize himself.

What distinguishes a customer, namely a client in the field of law from the customers in other sectors is that the problems that someone cannot overcome with materiality. When you meet new people, the first thing they will notice is your communication skills instead of your professional achievements. How possible is it to entrust our troubles to someone who has no communication skills and who has a superficial understanding?

Therefore:

• If you always adopt a perspective, where you set your commercial expectations before a person, each person will notice that. You should understand and care what that person has been going through. You are the only remedy available to them.
• Return your calls immediately. Try to go to your meetings right on time or even earlier. Being punctual and explaining the reasons for being late will make them feel cared.
• Providing trainings for “social communication”will improve your relations with your clients. Your language speaks before your legal success and your body language speaks before your language.

5) Office-Related Improvement

• Do not underestimate cases with low returns. Relatively small-scale cases are a chain for your career. Your disciplined work today in any lawsuit that will bring a few monies in could lead tocircumstances, where you are recommended for a big case based on previous good experience with you.
• You can both expand your legal knowledge and business network by participating into different activities such as legal workshops. Besides, displaying your certificates, which you will obtain through these workshops in your office is a nice tool to promote the trainings you receive.
• “One language is one person” principle is also valuable in the field of law. We are of the opinion that language is also crucial in terms of business network considering the legal problems that the people from different races face in Turkey.
• It would not be pleasant to remain unresponsive to the legal issues to be faced in the new business areasthat will arise with the development of technology. You need to diversify your legal solutions that you will offer to your clients. You may stay up to dateby paying attention to the area of specialization of the lawyers, who you consider hiring and by referring to them in a short text on your blog on your website.

If you decide to proceed with this difficult road, as Advopass, we are here for you hundred percent to support you.