While debt collection law differs greatly from say, criminal defense, there is one component that should be at the center of every firm’s agenda—attorney/client relationships.
Lawrence G. Almelda, a shareholder at Brinks Gilson & Lione in Chicago, outlines four approaches to enhance client service practices for the American Bar Association in the following article:
Creating a personal and mutually beneficial attorney/client relationship has a multitude of benefits, including improving the bottom line. Almelda encourages exercising high responsiveness; making clients’ lives easier by providing a filtered-down version of legal information and summarizing when you can; following up often and—most importantly—making clients look great.