The Butterfly Effect is a sensitive dependency on conditions in which even the slightest seemingly unrelated event can have a HUGE difference on the outcome of another. After working in client experience for over a decade now, the CXINLAW team has seen first-hand how small changes and improvements in the first touch-point have seen big improvements…
Interview with CXINLAW Director and key-author of ‘First Impressions Convert’, Carl White (Part 1/3). Carl White was born in Bath, England, before the city was listed as a World Heritage Site. He lived there with his mother for only a short time before they moved to Wales. It was during his education in Wales that…
In our latest market study, First Impressions Convert: Increasing profitability from the first touch-point (First Impressions Convert), we reveal the prospective clients’ experience when choosing a legal provider and the importance of exceptional client service as a differentiator in an increasingly client-focused environment. Key-author of First Impressions Convert, Carl White (Director of CXINLAW), believes that…
Most firms aim to achieve client ‘satisfaction’. Yet in a world where the bar of client experience is being rapidly raised, firms should be aiming for client service excellence. Why? Because the old adage, ‘clients are your best referrers’, has definitely held true. In fact, a study by Altman Weil found that when selecting a law firm,…
What is on every law firm’s website? A promise of client service excellence. Yet, does your firm have a program in place to train teams to deliver exceptional client service? After findings revealed by a joint ALPMA/CXINLAW survey, No Second Chances, ALPMA president Andrew Barnes said “We exist in very competitive times. Law firm differentiators…
To acquire new clients in a cluttered marketplace you need to invest in both online and traditional marketing – you already know this. Yet, what happens when a prospect contacts your firm? Are your firm’s first impressions letting you down? In a study of Australian and New Zealand law firms, Client Experience Excellence in Law…
In Legal Futures’ recent survey, only three in ten people who have a legal issue seek advice. Of those, just over half go to a lawyer. The most common reason cited by 8,192 people was an assumption that legal services would be too expensive. While this survey was from the UK, there is no reason…
A key finding of PWC’s 2017 CEO survey was that 79% of CEO’s are concerned about evolving customer behaviours and went on to highlight that ‘customers want an experience where empathy is the centrepiece and technology is the seamless enabler’. Reinforcing this finding is the Carnegie Institute of Technology’s researchthat improving people-to-people skills is a more…