11 Lessons I Learned While Serving Clients

Developing the Next Generation of Rainmakers 11 Lessons I Learned While Serving Clients Annual surveys reveal clients are not pleased with the service they receive from their law firms. Here are 11 lessons I learned while serving my clients. Your clients and client representatives want you: There is one more really lesson I learned while serving clients. I have said many times that my clients were (and remain) my best friends and my friends were my best clients. We dined together, vacationed together and spent time in each other’s homes. My last trial was in 2005. After weeks of preparation, four weeks of trial, and my cross-examination of the first two adversary witnesses, the other side said: ” No Mas” and we settled the case. My client and close friend, Bob said this about the experience: The relationships have been transformed from being purely professional to both professional and personal. That transition is a natural outcome of the  bonds that develop in the common effort to overcome adversity. There is an  old Russian proverb, probably came out of the salt mines in Siberia â€" “You  never really know a man until you’ve packed salt with him.” Facing adversity  together gives us remarkable insight into each other’s character. When you work on a case together or a deal together, you eat many meals together, drink many cups of coffee together and spend many, many hours and days together. As my friend, Bob, pointed out, you build a very strong tie because you are working hard as a team to successfully complete the matter. I practiced law for 37 years developing a national construction law practice representing some of the top highway and transportation construction contractors in the US.