18: Future Proofing: The Fundamentals

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  19. Future Proofing: Talent Is a Long-Term Sustainable Proposition

  2. Providing Value to Your Client

  Stocking up and down on talent isn’t good business and it’s not real Future Proofing. People aren’t printer cartridges which can be acquired as needed. Remember, law is a service business and talent is everything.
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  20. Future Proofing Client Relationships

  2. Providing Value to Your Client

  Law firms are great at looking down and in, examining their metrics for billings, recoveries, overheads, capacity and the rest. But what about looking up and out. Not just at the competition, but at the clients.
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  21. How Do You Anticipate Risk and Future Proof Against It?

  2. Providing Value to Your Client

  Future Proofing exercises should form a specific step in the project template. Not just once, not sporadically, but regularly as a calendar entry. Have your team take a planned moment to stop and look around. Look back at progress, look sideways at lateral issues, and most of all, look forward at risk.