Risk culture and the great legal services provider
Culture as a building block for great legal services
Does your legal practice have a vision of being a great professional services provider? Of course the answer is yes! Whether this is your new year’s resolution or a decision you have made when you last pause and take stock, you need a plan to build on all the great things you have already achieved, as well as set you up for the many challenges ahead.
Culture, or simply “the way we do things around here”, is an important ingredient in a legal practice’s success as a great professional services provider. With this in mind, clearly we need to make sure we have the right culture in place as part of our grand plan.
Culture is the subject matter of numerous text books, research, papers and commentary. Organisational culture in particular takes centre stage at many conferences, partners’ off-sites and team building exercises. I get the distinct feeling that if this is just another article about culture, many readers would abandon this article and move onto doing something else.
Well, I am pleased to say that this definitely is not just another general article about culture. I want to focus on risk culture, and I want to share just one tip – something practical and do-able – that would contribute to your success as a great
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I explained that, as senior leaders at a law firm or legal department, we are already in possession of the skills needed to make a valuable contribution – we are already familiar with legislation and regulation that can affect our firm or organisation, and we are also already familiar with the inner workings of our legal practice and its desired objectives and outcomes – so we should not hesitate to identify, manage and mitigate risks and aim for excellence in risk