by Chris Catapano, CFA, CPA | Apr 24, 2016 | Business Strategy, Law Firm Strategy
The ocean is crazy powerful It was mid morning. Walking along Ocean Beach, I couldn’t help but gaze at the jaw dropping distance between where surf hit the sand and the waterline marking high tide from the night before. A mere nine hours earlier, waves were...
by Chris Catapano, CFA, CPA | Apr 10, 2016 | Business Strategy, Law Firm Strategy
The other day, I was sitting in traffic trying to cross the Golden Gate Bridge. I needed to get to the North Bay to meet an important networking colleague and referral partner. It was a meeting that easily could have been a “catch up session” over the...
by Chris Catapano, CFA, CPA | Apr 6, 2016 | Law Firm Strategy
Where were you eight years ago? This month. April. It would have been 2008 . . . The stock market looked like this The NYSE Composite was down a little over 10%. It was a pull-back. A correction. Nothing to worry about. Happens all the time. You’d have to go...
by Chris Catapano, CFA, CPA | Mar 24, 2016 | Law Firm Strategy
It’s hardly news The economy is starting to fade. Recession-esque statistics are already impacting states from the Midwest to the Plains. Another undercurrent, often unnoticed in the sea of economic data, is legal revenues. They started to tail-off again in the...
by Chris Catapano, CFA, CPA | Feb 5, 2016 | Business Strategy, Law Firm Strategy
We are often asked what makes the difference between companies that achieve their goals, versus those that do not. In our experience, firms that put time, effort, and money into developing business processes that maximize the performance of key value drivers are best...
by Chris Catapano, CFA, CPA | Feb 1, 2016 | Business Strategy, Case Studies, Law Firm Strategy
Systems to improve Boost to the bottom line Happy client Our Client A mid-sized law firm diversified across numerous practice areas was operating its business using software, systems, and processes that were developed anywhere between 10 and 30 years ago. Management...
