Client Relationship -

Should Your Different Practice Areas Use Other Technologies?

For firms with several practice areas, pushing through digital transformations can be particularly challenging. Each practice area has specific needs, and frequently those needs do not overlap. Even when different practice areas have similar needs (e.g., date docketing, document creation, etc.), they may have different approaches and workflows for those needs. And there may even…

Liability of Celebrities That Engage in Business Promotion

By Omoruyi Edoigiawerie & Nonso Anyasi As the world evolves, there has been a gradual change in the way products and services are being marketed and sold. Brands, Companies now use popular celebrities as ambassadors with the hope that the reputation of the celebrity endorser of the brand will be passed on to the products…

The Nagamoto Retainer: The Nagamoto Invoice

TRACKING YPUR PRODUCTIVITY PUTTING A VALUE ON YOUR TIME Its been 12 months now and Grace & Co has been representing Nagamoto industries all over Africa, the Law Firm has built a strong partnership with 20 law Firms across 15 countries across Africa, managing cross-jurisdictional teams on behalf of their prized client. Bar. Grace has…

The Nagamoto Retainer: Keeping Nagamoto Happy

TIMELY NOTIFICATIONS CENTRAL CALENDAR MANAGING MULTIPLE BRIEFS ACROSS MULTIPLE CLIENTS USING MULTIPLE TEAMS Grace & Co has been effectively managing Nagamoto’s Corporate Commercial and Litigation briefs and has acquired more briefs from Nagamoto from the initial 2 briefs that they started with. One of the things that Bar. Grace is able to ensure is that…

The Nagamoto Retainer: Team Performance

MANAGING CLIENT PERCEPTION ASSESSING STAFF PERFORMANCE OPTIMISING TIME (TIME IS EVERYTHING IN LEGAL PRACTICE) Bar. Grace is proud of her team, though only 7 in number, they have helped her build a strong and formidable law firm. Hamza is a corporate lawyer to the bones, he has only been to court twice in his 15-year…

The Nagamoto Retainer: The Race Against Time

DOCUMENT DRAFTING AND REVIEW LEGAL RESEARCH PRACTICE AUTOMATION USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE While Bar. Grace was having a sleepless night, Bar. Nathan was also responding to the e-mail, he started working on the brief after sending his firm’s profile and a draft retainer agreement. He had some problems with the hourly rates as he was not…

The Nagamoto Retainer: The Virtual Law Firm

TEAMS NOT BRANCH OFFICES HARNESSING COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE THE POWER OF DELEGATION THE BRIEF “Dear Bar. Grace, I write further to the instructions of our Founder and Chairman, Mr Hitoshi Nagamoto, and he sends his fond regards. In light of the above we require your Firm to do the following: 1. Indicate if you are willing…

The Nagamoto Retainer: The Challenge

CLIENT CREATION BRIEF CREATION TEAM CREATION That evening Grace gets a surprise phone call from the Nagamoto Industries’ Head of Legal, Ms Miko Hiyabosa. She confirms that Grace met Mr Nagamoto earlier that day and informs her of the Brief that will be sent to her email in a few minutes, she also askes for…

The Nagamoto Retainer: Meeting Mr. Nagamoto

A seven-part guide to digital transformation for legal professionals, firms and organisations. LEAD GENERATION CONTACT MANAGEMENT E-MAIL INTEGRATION This story begins with 3 Lawyers from Nigeria, Jimoh Esq., Nathan Esq. and Grace Esq., each of them travels to Japan for the IBA Conference taking place in the beautiful city of Seoul, South Korea (Seoul 2019). At…

ARE LAWYERS READY FOR THE CLIENTS OF THE FUTURE?

The Client of the Future is a guest post submitted by Kelechi Achinonu Esq. (Lawyer and Software Developer). Thanks to customer-centric companies like Uber and Amazon, we have learnt that as consumers, we can get anything we want for less delivered to our doorsteps, sometimes immediately, for free and this will only get worse, as…