top 3 ways my startup clients got the best value from me: 🛑 respecting my boundaries 🛑 Above all else, if you treat me as a partner, and not as a tool, I am personally going to go above and beyond for you. That means e.g. not "giving me" deadlines, paying on time, and giving the same urgency and importance to my asks of you as I do to your asks of me. Am I a diva? Maybe. But this is the minimum of showing up authentically, IMO. 🧠 framing questions that assume risk 🧠 If you genuinely acknowledge your comfort with risk, and that we're not addressing the entirety of ways things go wrong; if you're engaged in conversations about what's at stake, then I understand I can give you advice that's weighted much more to practical constraints of time and money vs. legal advice that simply ensures I can't get sued. ⚙️ investing in systems ⚙️ Punting on the overhead of setting up templates, legal operations SOPs for B2B customers, or even monitoring data on how your contract is affecting your sales cycle, are the kind of silent 'legal debt' that creates drag over time. Other lawyers, what am I missing? PS--the meme is a little hyperbolic, but only if you're very attentive
I love #2. I find that when I talk to lawyers (and doctors too), it feels like often they're treating their job as just telling me every way something can go wrong, and it's super unhelpful 😭
respecting boundaries is key, for sure. it's all about mutual respect in partnerships. what strategies do you find most effective for managing those expectations?
Tamir Haddad, smart systems and mutual respect create the best client-lawyer partnerships.
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2wI agree with all of this. It’s a nice roll-up of what leads to great, productive, partnerships - with external legal resources, but I believe also more broadly with other external partners, or even internally between team members. I think if you rephrase #2 to “be clear and transparent about what is important, and not important, to you with each ask” you could use this guidance across any discipline. What do you think?