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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. 

Setting up your own business remains a decisive step in a lawyer's career, but its difficulty is underestimated. After having spoken with hundreds of firms, of all sizes, all practices and all regions, we can tell you that it is important to put yourself in the right frame of mind. In a few words : Think like an entrepreneur! This is the condition shared by all successful firms. For example, reread this enlightening testimony published in the Village de la Justice.

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

La customer relationship of the law firm is undergoing a 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 conference #Lexpo17 in Amsterdam on May 8 & 9, 2017. 300 European lawyers gathered around a strong program to address innovation strategies. The answers provided by law firms shed light on possible paths. Finally, Legaltech trends are perceptible 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 Law Management Summit on March 16, 2017 hosted a large number of conferences around litigation and arbitration. The conference “Client Relations: what they expect from a law firm” brought together a panel of 5 speakers around Matthieu Meffre, from 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.

You will find here 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 “ Literary and Musical Palace » 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 subject " 1916-1917, from the Sykes-Picot Accords to the Balfour Declaration “Middle East Iconoclasty” 2016-2017« 

To register for the conference, click here

LEXposia is organizing, in partnership with the Paris Bar, a day of reflection on the theme of digital transformation: “Sense of history, change in models or error in strategy? When the in digital take 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 :

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