Can the legal practice be collaborative?
Gustavo Rocha,
February 2, 2010
Legal on Ramp network gives us an excellent example, wherein an associated firm has 14 thousand members writing articles, questions and answers on the upside felt by clients and lawyers and a protected work.
How’s that?
Well, a network that contains countless lawyers and third parties, constitutes a real associative network thus benefiting both lawyers and their clients.
Looking for a lawyer in Manaus but you are in Sao Paulo? If your firm is in a collaborative network, you may have associates there.
The same goes for increasing partnerships, deals, better projects and initiatives.
There are some projects with this focus in Brazil, though American bigger proportions are inspirational.
How do you plan to collaborate with fellow lawyers?
- Do you find that exchanging ideas is the same as giving them away to the competition?
- Splitting fees on a suit is, for you, losing money?
- Do you think it’s a waste, investing time on a social network?
I suggest you think again about this issues.
Nowadays collaboration is more than an idea. It’s a matter of survival. We are living the social network era. The era of exchanging information, of growing together, of strategic alliances:
- We are partners, not competitors.
- We are the sum of ideas, not of monopoly and exclusiveness.
- We are the multiplication of projects and the division of dividends, unlike individualism.
Think and rethink your attitudes. Your firm ’s future, as well as, all legal practice’s depend on: your vision, reflection and, mostly on the verb action, the action you’ll take.







