Posts in category: Uncategorized

All lawyers are trained to practice their activity as a freelancer. Whether independent or in association, opening your practice is, however, a demanding choice. Moreover, a large number of graduates work as collaborators, by choice or preference. 

Going freelance remains a pivotal step in a lawyer's career, but its difficulty is often underestimated. After speaking with hundreds of firms of all sizes, practices, and regions, we can tell you that it's crucial to adopt the right mindset. In short: Think like an entrepreneur! This is the common thread among all successful firms. For example, reread this insightful account published in Village de la Justice.

Here we offer you a breakdown of the 6 steps to successfully opening your law firm.

The client relationship of the law firm is undergoing a major transformation.

, CEO of Accritas, shared with the audience at #Lexpo17 the conclusions of a major marketing study conducted with 2.000+ members of legal departments and around 1000 recognized lawyers.

The conclusions are explicit:

• the client has a degraded image of the law firm 
• the firm has the impression of having greatly improved its customer relations.

How to get out of this vicious circle? The classic customer survey method makes it possible to identify areas for improvement.

Ask the customer

The first step is of course to interview the customer. The most widespread criticism among the 20.000 customers surveyed over the last 10 years can be summed up in 2 words: “POOR VALUE”.

Indeed, from the customer's point of view, much can be done to improve this perception.

We participated in the #Lexpo17 conference in Amsterdam on May 8th and 9th, 2017. Three hundred European lawyers gathered for a high-quality program to discuss innovation strategies. The responses provided by law firms illuminated possible paths forward. Finally, Legaltech trends are emerging and must be considered by lawyers.

The conferences, entirely in English, are led by industry references. Ron Friedman, Jordan Fulong and Rohit Talwar are keen connoisseurs of trends (and very good presenters).

The Legal Management Summit on March 16, 2017, hosted numerous conferences on litigation and arbitration. The conference "Client Relations: What They Expect from a Law Firm" brought together a panel of five speakers, moderated by Matthieu Meffre of Décideurs magazine.

• Jacques-Antoine Robert, co-managing partner of the American firm Simmons & Simmons
• Marjorie Hello, associate lawyer at the Luxembourg law firm AMMC Law
• Jean-Marie Valentin, managing partner of the Parisian firm SVZ
• Martin Bussy, co-founder of Jarvis Legal
• Xavier Derville, legal director of Zodiac Pool Holding

The Law Trophies ended Thursday evening with the presentation of prizes to all the winning law firms.

No less than 700 lawyers, jurists and partners were present at the awards dinner.

Formal but festive, the event first gave rise to an introductory speech by Ms. Elizabeth Menesguen of the National Bar Council.

A Trophy of Honor was then presented to Me Jacques Barthélémy by Frédéric Sicard and Marie-Aimée Peyron, President of the President and future President of the President of Paris.

Award ceremony for Best Customer Relations Firm

Martin Bussy, co-founder of Jarvis Legal, had the pleasure of presenting the prize for Best Customer Relations Firm to the SVZ firm (Sekri Valentin Zerrouk).

Despite very high quality competition, SVZ was chosen as the winner for its mySVZ innovation coupled with LegalCluster.

Thanks to this tool, the firm provides its legal department clients with a management space for its lawyers all over the world, with private access and shared supervision between the SVZ firm and the client. Thus, the customer can rely on selected skills, worldwide.

List of winning law firms

Many other categories were awarded prizes. Let us cite for example the Strelia firm, Best Belgian firm or Schellenberg Wittmer, Best Swiss firm, which we auditioned in Brussels and Geneva in February.

Here you will find all the winners of the 2017 Gold Trophies.

For each category, many law firms were nominated. Everyone had to present a written dossier then support their project in front of a carefully selected jury. It was at the end of this demanding process that the jurors, in complete independence, voted individually.

This is of course a real disappointment for all the lawyers who did not win. We wish them much success for their future participations.

See you next year

Jarvis Legal , digital solutions for law firms, is a partner of the " Palais Littéraire et Musical" for the year 2017.

Founded in 1913, the association aims to generate exchanges and debates between personalities from the literary and musical world and personalities from the law.

The next event takes place, wednesday 15 march at 20:00 p.m. at the Auditorium of the House of the lawyer of the Paris Bar (2 rue de Harlay, 75001 Paris), for a conference of:

Samy Bochner
lawyer at the Court of Paris

on the topic " 1916-1917, from the Sykes-Picot Agreement to the Balfour Declaration "Iconoclasm of the Middle East" 2016-2017 "

To register for the conference, click here.

Find the Leaders League article published in the Top100 Law Firms on Jarvis Legal in the 2016 edition. You will be able to discover the testimonies of Maître Abitbol and Maître Tattini. In fact, their firms have been using Jarvis for over a year.

Read the article Top 100 Law Firms

LEXposia, in partnership with the Paris Bar Association, is organizing a day of reflection on the theme of digital transformation: "Sense of history, mutation of models or strategic error? When digital technology takes over the lawyer."

Jarvis Legal is participating in one of the round tables around the theme: “Digital transformation of law firms” alongside eJust, Doctrine, Azko and Mon-avocat.fr

Program :