A: Many will say between 8 and 10%. Some of the more optimistic may say 15 to 20%. And the pessimistic in the crowd may go as low as 3%.
Very few though would say 0.8%.
Yet that was the finding from the latest PWC law firms survey [2022]:
If data from a P&L statements doesn’t lie, then marketing and business development investment by most law firms is truely woeful and probably goes a long way to explaining why we are where we are…
As usual, comments are my own.
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Suppose it also depends upon the project pipeline the firm has. If you’re overloaded with work, why spend more on marketing and BD?
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There is some truth to that, but busy now without any investment in BD can lead to barren next week. No doubt it’s a balance. Also, this is a very transactional view-point – if you are a true “trusted advisor” to the client, then this is somewhat mooo.
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