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The title speaks itself. How can you bring your book of business at small to mid-sized firms?

The target clients would be institutions, companies, emerging companies, small business owners.

I don't think I will be a great lawyer, honestly, so my next or only option would be a rainmaker, which I imagine I would be better.

EDIT: "a great lawyer" in my post: lawyers who made partner because of great lawyering skills
"rainmaker": lawyers who made partner because they bring in clients.

I've read this post multiple times, and I still have no clue what it means.

Anonymous User wrote:The title speaks itself. How can you bring your book of business at small to mid-sized firms?

The target clients would be institutions, companies, emerging companies, small business owners.

I don't think I will be a great lawyer, honestly, so my next or only option would be a rainmaker, which I imagine I would be better.

I like this post.

Civilservant wrote:I've read this post multiple times, and I still have no clue what it means.

Seconded. This post fucking sucks.

guys you are doing it all wrong. don't read the post; op said the title speaks for itself

on a more serious note, being a "rainmaker" instead of a "lawyer" isn't completely unheard of. at my firm, we had attorneys whose sole function was to maintain client relationsihps. moreover, business development managers are a thing. see e.g.: http://chj.tbe.taleo.net/chj06/ats/care ... =1&rid=820 https://chp.tbe.taleo.net/chp01/ats/car ... rce=Indeed

OP. I've clarified more. Please be serious

Anonymous User wrote:OP. I've clarified more. Please be serious

You gotta pay the troll toll to get into the clientsoul

When you say "how can you bring your book of business at small to midsized firms," do you mean "how do you create a book of business"?

This post still doesn't make sense.

Abbie Doobie wrote:on a more serious note, being a "rainmaker" instead of a "lawyer" isn't completely unheard of. at my firm, we had attorneys whose sole function was to maintain client relationsihps. moreover, business development managers are a thing. see e.g.: http://chj.tbe.taleo.net/chj06/ats/care ... =1&rid=820 https://chp.tbe.taleo.net/chp01/ats/car ... rce=Indeed

Yeah OP see rainmakers are just business development managers. It's ezpz. Lol @ the chumps who actually try to do legal work when you can just take CEOs out to drinks and golf all day as a 1st year, right?

By "bring" do you mean "build"?

Unless OP can immediately edit, clarify, and clean up his post to form a cogent question, then this thread should be locked immediately.

Is OP a 0L?

Anonymous User wrote:The title speaks itself. How can you bring your book of business at small to mid-sized firms?

The target clients would be institutions, companies, emerging companies, small business owners.

I don't think I will be a great lawyer, honestly, so my next or only option would be a rainmaker, which I imagine I would be better.

EDIT: "a great lawyer" in my post: lawyers who made partner because of great lawyering skills
"rainmaker": lawyers who made partner because they bring in clients.

Can only assume he's asking how to bring small clients to a firm that doesn't deal with small clients, only medium clients.

Yes I think it's a 0l

I think he means "how do you become a rainmaker/what do you do to build a book of business"

So many trolls in this thread. Guise please, supposed to be serius

Nebby wrote:Is OP a 0L?

No.

call your current clients and tell them about why u are making the move. some might not like it and u could lose some but that's just how it goes.

if ur going small to medium size also be aware the mid size firm will have a higher expected revenue for a client to be worth it than a small firm. a typical mid size firm probably wont want to risk the conflicts if a client is only worth say $5k annually, but IME small clients are k with that.

obviously depends on practice group.

At OCI, interview only with firms that hire directly into their rainmaking group instead of just placing kids in general litigation.