Good Morning bro , tak balik kampung or holiday ke ? hehhe

Anyway , Yea 3 offices but maybe , the ones in kuala kangsar will be closed soon due to internal probs.

About the lawyers , if im not mistaken , taiping 3 , ipoh 2 , KK 2..
Duration of employment.. i am not too sure about that. 

Risk of loosing the staffs are quite high thou since they all are old people and maybe waayyyy too comfort with the current style of work.. i am considering to buang half of them in order to increase the productivity ..

Tak balik kampung cos orang KL

You must know that it is very HARD to actually sack someone in MY - especially since you are dealing with people who are conversant with Law.

You plus your wife really need to sit down with your FIL

Running any biz today is not the same as 20-years ago. Landscape, competition is very different.

You're from the F&B Line right, perhaps your wife can offer Legal Services to them such as

- Tenancy Agreement - with Landlord
- Contract Agreements - with suppliers
- HR Contracts - with staff

Kan ..  i really have to sit down with him and have a intense talk. Before this , i thought managing an office would be easy and simple.. hahaha.

I am not from F&B line.. S/M for corporate hotel offices..

sorry, quite close lah

Use your contacts to get the Hotel contracts Legal Work

hahahah. Boleh ke bro approach just like that ? actually the whole topic was about this.. i am trying to know whether
can i approach clients with emails , portfolios , visits etc like what we always do in S/m..

Cause i asked my wife and she said law firm doesn't work that way.. lol.. idk..

Read, understand, and re-apply? this kind of lawyer is the easiest to defeat.

Being a lawyer is not about winning or losing? (oh wake up, don't like in a virtual world) !

*shrugs*

Not e-mails but visits with pitches and portfolios - YES

Big Legal Firms do that for Big Clients / Existing Clients - Talk about Firm Background, expertise, past portfolio etc

But not to sound too desperate lah

Pitch to Group Legal of the respective Firms,and also marketing departments like say Corporate Banking, Investment Banking, etc

Good way to create awarness is to offer "Free Legal Seminars" for prospective clients

Say - "Dispute and Arbitration process for Human Resources Department"

"Tenancy vs Lease - Pros and Cons" for Property Department / Legal Dept of the Hotel

Big Law Firms also do very Nice CV for their Partners / Lawyers

http://www.zicolaw.com/profile/david-lee-kim-meng/

http://www.lh-ag.com/s-saravana-kumar/

http://www.logan.com.my/html/people.html

What does your wife do now?? Is she a practicing lawyer with another firm? If she is practicing, she should hop over to your fil's firm for the next few years, so she gets to know his clients etc. You're a long way from hiring and firing my friend. You will have to give those old staff compensation etc. You can't hypothetically deduce how to run a business you're not involved in.

TS, you really should have an intense talk with your wife and FIL. Running three firms at the same time is not easy if without expertise in management includes human management, accounts and admin.

If there are only three lawyers and three branches, I believe each branch will have a lawyer stationed there, am I right? If so, you need to know each branch's clients' portfolios.

First thing you need to make clear is what is your role in the firm. Who is going to take care admin, accounts and management? Do other partners of the firm agree with the arrangement or the lawyers in the firm are mere legal assistant?
Please take note that a law firm cannot use a "marketing officer". 

With your background as S/M will definitely of help to your beloved wife. You may want to learn a little bit of law also. Suggest you to attend some seminars organised by the Perak Bar in relations to the field that you want. Further, enroll yourself to work in the firms to know more how a firm works. Without hands-on experience, it's very difficult for you to stand.

In conclusion:-
Identify your role in the firm and enroll yourself in seminars.

Dear Bro ,

Thanks for the information and advice. as for my role in the firms , my wife told me that i need to manage the managements site which are as you mentioned above. I do have a diploma in business management and hopefully the studies that ive learnt 10 years ago could be applied later .

Seminars ? it is a good idea thou. I have a thought of that actually.. Will try to take a look about that. I myself had bought some law books and had been searching around the net on how to manage/work a firm. No doubt its not as easy as it looks . Once again i would like to thank you for giving me such opinions.

Greetings people !

Well , as you can see , i am trying to figure it out on how to sustain a Law Firm ?

In two years time , my wife's dad will be handing over his medium size Law firm to my wife.

The thing is , my wife is just an ordinary lawyer without any business orientate. So it leaves to me to handle the business. With my 6 years experience of Sales and marketing , can i succeed this ? I am in hospitality industry right now and basically its almost the same thing which is we sells services to customers.

I asked her on how did you father managed to find his clients ? She said the dad just waited for the clients to come by at the office and deal.. Her dad is doing so-so right now. Average 1-2 cases a month sometimes none.

Anyway , i am still blur on how to boost the sales figure for the business. We have enough staffs to work but no enough clients/case to deal.

Her parents are putting a big hope to me to handle the business since we are the first born child for both families and my wife has 4 younger siblings to take care of later.

The main question now is can i apply the same method on S/M for a Law firm ?

What strategy should i use ?