For a bar or other professional association, these are important questions. It is not hard to think of corporate, government and public service lawyers as practitioners, even though they do not provide services directly to private sector clients. Nor do we have difficulty recognizing that professors, judges, bar counsel and other ancillary individuals are part of the larger profession. We have more difficulty thinking in terms of lawyers who work in a variety of other settings as practicing law. Lawyers who work for banks, accounting firms and other nonlegal enterprises often are perceived as outsiders, although much of the work they do could be described as alternative forms of service delivery.
Some lawyers think management refers only to managing partners and spreadsheets.
They are wrong. This is true regardless of status in the firm or substantive practice area. But in truth, law practice management is much, much more. The American Bar Association. All rights reserved.