Out-of-the-Box Lawyering

Here's an out-of-the-box way to increase your bottom line

Here's a suggestion from a legal consulting firm as a way to increase your net profit:

“A Great Way to Make More

Money Is To Turn Down Business.”

How's that for what is for some a counterintuitive out-of-the-box approach! Over the years, I've seen many articles about the wisdom of refusing cases, but this is the best short summary that I've seen.

Source: This was in an ad by the legal consulting firm Altman Weil, Inc. It was in the November/December 2004 issue of Law Practice magazine. Law Practice is a publication of ABA's Law Practice Management Section. (Don't go to the Altman Weil site just to see a copy of the ad. As of now at least, the ad is not on their site.)

Posted by ajlevy at December 11, 2004 4:17 PM