Your Partner for strategic consultancy services for law firms

Expect customized solutions for your strategic challenges and fundamental management tasks from ProximusCounsel as your management consultant. Because you will benefit directly from ProximusCounsel’s 30+ years of practice. Go ahead and make your own experience, but do not make avoidable mistakes that can cost a lot of money.

 

Commercial law firms are often entities that have grown more or less accidentally, from great successes in the past and personalities that left their marks. What is surprising is that the development of the future is often not considered in time, let alone actively addressed. As in the past, coincidence can lead to success. But unfortunately this is not necessarily the case. In short: no sustainable success without strategy. But a strategy that must fit the law firm. Firm culture is a key factor in the development and implementation of all strategy.

Especially in the area of opening up a partnership to lateral entrants, many law firms have little experience. This is where a special consultancy offer from ProximusCounsel comes to play. The poaching of partners among law firms has increased enormously in recent years. The law firm that is desperately looking for a new partner in an important field too often says to itself: it will fit although there are doubts. The same can be true for the candidate. But: Did you know that half of all partners placed by headhunters move on after just a few years? This means that millions are "wasted" year after year. But the uselessly spent headhunter fees is not even the biggest financial loss in this equation. The wrong candidate who is not a good fit for the firm can be toxic, sending the firm into a downward spiral instead of the desired high.

 

ProximusCounsel is not a headhunter. But the experience gained from almost 20 completed hires of laterals at partner level within less than four years is probably unique in the German-speaking legal market. Behind this are hundreds of mostly multi-stage interviews with candidates. We advise on all important steps:

 

• The job description.
• Creating the profile for the search.
• The contact with a multitude of different headhunters.
• The planning of the integration of the new partners into the new organization.
• The actual implementation and support of the new partners and the firm.

 

Headhunters do not offer this, because it is not part of their tasks. With our specially tailored consulting services, we ideally complement the work of headhunters. And help to make partner promotions better and more successful.