If not, then opportunities will fall through the cracks, delays will be met, clients' problems will be left to fester and generally a bad time will be had by all.
This role will involve answering the following questions, which has troubled all relationships: do we have a conflict of interests?
This should be obvious after some thought. For example, does a record label have any interest in investing in an artiste to give her a long profitable career or is it interested in extracting the highest value for the cheapest investment in the artiste?
Is it better for the law firm to churn legal work, to draw it out, to engage in complex expensive manoeuvres or for it to advocate for the client in the firm's internal meetings? What happens when the fees are threatened?
The drama is this: if you do all the good stuff for your client what will you have for yourself at the end of the day? If you are following the line of reasoning in this question, you will have noticed that it is implicitly assumed that your law firm's interests and your clients interests are mutually exclusive. It is not so.
The reality is this: if you meet your client's needs, your needs will be met. You just have to get ready to fight the illusion of losses and the waiting time for this idea to pay off.
Just like marriages or relationships, men will sell their souls for the wives/girlfriends who are sold out for them. And it works the other way.
A major difference between business and personal relationships in this case is that businesses really need business partners and not so much friends.
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