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Article: Strategic management of the family law practice.
- Article from:
- Florida Bar Journal
- Article date:
- May 1, 2001
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This article discusses the fundamental concepts of strategic management and illustrates how they may be successfully applied to the family law practice.
Many family lawyers, myself included, did not go to business school as undergraduates. Perhaps we should have. After entering the practice of law, we were told that law is a "profession," not a business, and that our profession and practice would suffer if we approached our practice from a business perspective. This perspective was understandable in the era (pre-1970s) when the demand for legal services exceeded the supply of lawyers. Ironically, in today's legal economy, where too many lawyers chase too few ...