Chief financial officer, Client Relations officer, Business Development Officer, Hiring Executive to mention a few are all functions that you must carry out as fully and with as much thought and effort as you prepare for the case. Hell, you need a full time dedication to these things and if you are a solo law firm you have a Monday morning meeting with yourself and share out these duties to each office and do them. No choice in the matter.
If you consider that this is excessive, here is what your life will probably look like: you will try to cram these roles into the 10 mins left after in depth research into the law or some such move because you do not think they matter enough for you to reflect a change in your actions so your legal work will have limited reach.
You will not get as much value for the work and eventually the drama from neglecting them will cram into and stifle your legal work.
In the Christian bible there is a tale of 12 disciples whose major work was propagating the Gospel (read practicing the law) and they had to administer to the church organization (read CFO, CRO, BDO) which they had not done until the cry of the neglected threatened to stop their propagating work and then they appointed people to officially do so which left them to engage fully in their propagating work.
If a client has prepared for 7 days to rip your bills or performance to shreds and invites you over for a casual meeting and you have not, you will come out with eggs on your face.
You need a full-time focus on the role to be able to explain your position and not on your way back from court you receive the client meeting and fill it with empty protests.
You know all of this and it does make sense as you think it through.
So go do it.
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