Walker Clark works exclusively with the legal profession.
We have advised more small and medium law firms in more countries than any other legal management consulting firm.
Each member of our team has decades of hands-on experience in the legal profession or international business.
We deliver practical advice, not academic theories, to help each client get the best results.
Since 2002 - 17 years of service to the legal profession worldwide
strategic implementation
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.
strategy, mergers and acquisitions, crisis management, and more...
leadership for a changing legal 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.
individual leadership assessments, senior leadership counseling, law firm governance, and more...
profitable operations
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.
comprehensive management systems review, profitability diagnostic, quality assurance, risk management, and more...
Walker Clark's Crisis Management Companion: because you don't have to face the pandemic alone
Keeping your law firm responsive to client needs and profitable is a challenge even in good times.
In times of a crisis, it is even more difficult.
With Walker Clark's Crisis Management CompanionTM service, we will join your crisis-management team and work alongside you as you navigate through the rough seas of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This service is available to any law firm, anywhere in the world. We will remotely deliver customized, highly-responsive service and support for a fixed monthly fee.This will not be the one-time generic webinar that some consultants are offering. Nor will we be distant voices that are only occasionally at the end of a conference call or e-mail. Instead we will be there for you whenever and however you need us -- all for one fixed monthly fee.
Click on the link below to find out about how Walker Clark can stand by you as you navigate this storm and help you be better prepared for the next one.
It's not too late to develop a crisis response plan that works.
One lesson is already clear from the current COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic: Law firms that do not have a serious plan to respond to crises like COVID-19 are already severely handicapped in their ability to respond to them. Options are limited. There is a very high sense of urgency. Law firm leaders frequently feel that they must make big decisions with limited information. As a result, ad hoc responses seldom work very well.
This is where most law firms -- especially smaller ones -- find themselves today.
But it's not too late to develop an effective response that will not only help your firm survive this crisis, but will also enable you to emerge from this crisis stronger than before.
Why? Because you will be ready for the next one.
Does your firm have a written crisis management plan? Click here to take a one-question survey
looking over the horizon
Traditional strategic planning methods are failing many small and midsize law firms.
Rapidly changing client expectations and fiercely competitive legal markets present a frustrating intellectual challenge for smaller firms that have been successful so far, but now are confronted by an uncertain future and limited resources.
- What's over our horizon? How can we know, with reasonable confidence, what our legal market will be like in the 2020s and beyond?
- What do we need to do now -- not only to remain competitive and profitable today, but also to prepare to respond to the challenges that we will face ten years from now?
Walker Clark offers two services that can help your firm develop and implement cost-effective, fact-based answers to these questions.
our strategic partners
We are honored and delighted to be able to recommend these strategic partners to our clients. Each one offers systems, services, and support that can produce dramatic improvements in efficiency, sustainable profitability, and consistently high quality in the legal services delivered to clients.
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patent services for law firms worldwide INNOVATE PROTECT MONETIZE |
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For the latest reliable global statistics about the COVID-19 pandemic, click this link to go the the Johns Hopkins University website.
Sustainable Profitability in a Disrupted Legal Market
a special report by
Norman Clark & Lisa Walker Johnson
published by
Globe Law and Business
Although the traditional factors influencing profitability remain valid, new strategies must be adapted in order to meet new financial realities.
Put aside your business worries for a while and escape into the endless mountains.
a new novel by Walker Clark principal
Norman Clark
We promise: The words profitability, strategic planning, leverage, and fully-loaded operating cost appear nowhere in this book.
Click here for more information and to order your copy in paperback or Kindle format.