Business Development Coaching
We collaborate with lawyers at all levels of experience to grow their books of business. This involves coaching related to time management and fee setting, as well as a variety of channels for networking with and marketing toward their best potential clients and referral sources. Most of the attorneys we work with represent businesses, and over 75% have renewed their initial coaching contracts.
Strategic & Succession Planning
We advise firms on expansion opportunities including opening branch offices, launching new firms, and growing in connection with acquisitions and mergers. We also consult firm leaders on how to monetize their practices as they look to wind down their work. For more detail, please see our Succession Planning page.
International Law Firms
Rainmaking for Lawyers assists international law firms that seek to increase revenues generated from U.S.-based business clients. For international law firms that want to grow their physical presence in the United States, we act as an extension of your firm and allow you to expand without incurring the costs associated with opening an office here. For more details see our International Law Firm page.
Lateral Partner Questionnaires
Law firms routinely hire new talent, but many lawyers looking to change firms are doing so for only the first or second time. We level the playing field. We have assisted equity partners, non-equity partners, Of Counsel, and senior associates in lateral moves. We help with the entire process, including the completion of lateral partner questionnaires (LPQs), interview preparation, salary negotiation, and onboarding.
Fee Setting
Most law firms don’t have a strategy for raising their rates, which is why law firms often leave money on the table when negotiating with new and existing clients. We have educated clients on how to raise rates, resolve collections issues, and avoid non-payment. We also advise on the proper mix of hourly, contingency, and hybrid fees. Our clients have collectively generated millions of dollars in additional revenues as a result.
Law Firm Operations & Technology
Making the most of your marketing and business development efforts is more important than ever. We work with firms to identify their objectives and analyze what they are doing and how they do it. We pinpoint strengths and weaknesses and make recommendations. We have a wide range of experience in this area which includes advising clients on CRM implementations and other productivity tools.
Talent Acquisition & Retention
Rainmaking For Lawyers is not a headhunter and takes a completely different approach to finding candidates for professional service firms. As a consulting firm we focus on finding the best available candidates and once appointed, work with successful candidates through the onboarding process and in transferring and building their books of business. Our approach aligns our interests with those of the firm and the candidate. Your success is our success.
Women’s Initiative
Rainmaking For Lawyers is committed to supporting the success and career growth of women lawyers. We help firms to recruit and retain women partners and have a long history of working with women lawyers to grow their practices. We advise on salary negotiations for women and have given speeches to women’s networking groups, including the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles.
Presentations & Training
We work with many firms seeking to transform their culture and encourage business development through presentations and training. Recent programs have included cross-marketing, communicating with clients about fees, succession planning with senior lawyers, and business development. We provide customized speeches and training solutions to address the specific needs of each firm.
Speech Coaching
Speeches are among the most effective business development tools but also the most feared. Gideon is a former President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Speakers Association and offers speech coaching to lawyers in preparation for conferences and other presentations. We also help clients to prepare webinars and leverage video and audio recordings to attract more clients and referral sources after an event.
Content Creation
Content is key to successful marketing. We specialize in sophisticated messaging aimed at attracting leads. We apply a strategic focus to a variety of media, including website copy, LinkedIn profiles, speeches and presentations, RFP responses, and articles featured in a range of business and trade publications.
Networking & Introductions
We work with our clients to determine the best mix of organizations to join and to make the most of networking groups through targeted follow-up. Where possible, we make introductions directly, and we have organized roundtables curated to foster leads and referral sources for our clients while simultaneously offering value to the other attendees.
