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tandem with junior lawyers on
all files so there’s a built-in back-up system in place.
“If every lawyer only did their
own work and didn’t get other
lawyers involved, when they
retire, die or leave to go to the
bench, you’re not likely to be able
to say to clients, ‘we have somebody who can carry on.’ That’s
why you try to have a group
working on files. Certain tasks
can be done by associate lawyers
at cheaper rates than senior partners, too,” he says.
Hill recommends distribut-ing the work out among lawyers
based on their experience. For
example, significant files could
be headed up by a lawyer with
20 years or more experience
with support from colleagues
with two, five and 10 years under
their belts.
“The only way you can keep a
firm going into the future is to
have that kind of legacy,” he says.
Heather Wellman, an associate at Armstrong Wellman, a
Victoria-based litigation boutique, says it’s crucial for the partners at smaller firms to introduce
their junior lawyers to all of their
clients and talk them up in terms
of their legal prowess.
At the same time, senior partners need to realize if they do
take time off, there’s a good
chance some files simply won’t
be able to stay in the office while
they’re gone.
“If a long-standing client
comes in with a drop-everything
situation, like an injunction, and
I just can’t do it because I’m
swamped, I might have to refer it
out to another firm,” she says. “If
we have a good enough relationship with the client, they’ll realize that and won’t defect to the
other firm,” she says.
Industry research shows a direct correlation between the number of touch points a client has
with a firm and the chances the
client will jump ship, according
to Gerry Riskin, co-founder of
Edge International, an Anguilla-based consultancy firm to the
legal profession.
“As you add lawyers to the
mix, you dramatically reduce the
chances of losing that client. You
want to expose more of your
people to each client, even if it’s
as a team as opposed to a leader
of the team,” he says.
Riskin says he preaches succession planning to every senior
partner of a law firm that he talks
to. The vast majority, however,
are “absolutely not” prepared to
deal with a crisis of this magnitude, he says.
“They don’t usually react
appropriately. They usually bury
(the issue) or tolerate it for way
too long and cause themselves
serious problems. We don’t have
immortal people in any firm.
Somebody could be taken out by
a bus unexpectedly,” he says.
The resulting damage could
range from losing clients to damaged morale of junior lawyers to
higher-than-average turnover.
So, once a lawyer has left on a
leave in search of help, their clients will need to be informed of
the development. How much
information about the lawyer’s
personal situation is divulged will
likely depend on the relationship
they had with each client.
“Some are longstanding clients and friends with the lawyer,
you may impart more informa-
but you can be prepared when it is on the tips of
everybody’s tongues, Hill says.
“If a senior person (at your
firm) is experiencing some kind
of health or emotional problem
and it gets out, you’ll have people
in competing firms saying so-and-so is a hell of a lawyer but
they’re taking a little break from
their practice. That’s why you
want to have a back-up person,”
he says. n
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