Top ten tips

No matter how successful a law firm is, its members can still improve if they implemented traditional corporate business principles. These include:

1. Allow for cross-selling, cooperation and investment in your business to enhance the origin of work.
   
2. Find the true leaders who are willing to self-sacrifice and look beyond themselves.
   
3. Stop dilly-dallying.
   
4. Don't waste time making decisions based on worst case scenario which are not really serious.
   
5. Jettison the dead wood - lawyers and staff who have overstayed their welcome.
   
6. Don't stress about what other law firms are doing
   
7. Stop hiring bad people.
   
8. Employ business principle training from the start.
   
9. Don't believe everything you read.
   
10. Never be afraid to fail.