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Ensure Consistent Accountability for Strategic Initiatives

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Maintain Focus and Momentum on Long-Term Goals

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Translate Your Strategic Plan into Measurable Results

Your Strategic Plan:
Roadmap to Success or Expensive Dust Collector?

Developing a comprehensive strategic plan is a significant accomplishment, representing valuable leadership time, focused effort, and critical investment in your firm's future. But what happens after the plan is finalized? The unfortunate reality for many firms is that even the most insightful strategies often stall during implementation, becoming victims of the "execution gap."

Consider these common pitfalls:

  • The "Return to Normal": Initial enthusiasm fades as urgent client demands and the pressures of daily practice inevitably pull focus away from long-term strategic initiatives.

  • Lack of Ownership & Accountability: Without a dedicated champion and a structured process for tracking progress, assigned tasks slip, deadlines get pushed, and strategic goals lose priority with no real consequence.

  • Resource Misalignment: Day-to-day decisions about time and money may continue based on old habits or immediate needs, rather than consistently aligning with the priorities clearly defined in the strategic plan.

  • Momentum Loss: Without regular attention, monitoring, and reporting, strategic initiatives lose momentum and may eventually be abandoned altogether.

  • Wasted Investment: The significant effort, collaboration, and financial resources poured into creating the strategic plan are effectively squandered if the plan isn't actively managed through to completion and results.


A strategic plan sitting on a shelf provides no value. Failure to execute doesn't just mean missing out on growth or improvement opportunities; it undermines the entire strategic planning effort and can even foster cynicism about future initiatives. Your firm's strategic vision deserves dedicated, disciplined execution to become a reality.

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Our Framework for Driving Strategic Plan Success

A great strategic plan deserves great execution. PerformLaw partners with your firm to provide the structure, oversight, and accountability needed to ensure your strategic vision becomes reality. Our ongoing implementation support process typically involves three key phases:

Develop the Detailed Implementation Roadmap

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Building upon your core strategic plan, we collaborate with your team to create a detailed, actionable roadmap. This involves breaking down strategic objectives into specific tasks, assigning clear ownership and accountability to individuals or groups, setting realistic timelines and milestones, and establishing metrics for success, often utilizing shared project management tools (like MS Planner) for transparency.

Actively Manage Execution & Maintain Accountability

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This is where consistent focus makes the difference. We establish a regular cadence for monitoring progress against the roadmap, utilizing automated reporting where possible. Working closely with your designated internal strategy liaison (e.g., Strategic Planning Partner), we facilitate structured accountability meetings, identify potential roadblocks early, and help ensure firm resources (time and money) remain aligned with strategic priorities.

Provide Ongoing Strategic Guidance & Adaptation

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Business conditions and firm priorities evolve. We serve as your ongoing strategic sounding board, helping evaluate new opportunities or challenges in the context of your plan. We facilitate necessary adjustments to keep the strategy relevant, provide insights based on progress data, and ensure continued alignment with your firm's financial capacity and performance (integrating closely with our CFO services where applicable).

This continuous cycle of detailed implementation planning, active accountability management, and adaptive strategic guidance transforms your strategic plan from a static document into a dynamic driver of firm success.

This continuous cycle of detailed implementation planning, active accountability management, and adaptive strategic guidance transforms your strategic plan from a static document into a dynamic driver of firm success.

Your Partner in Turning Strategic Plans into Reality

Developing a thoughtful strategic plan is a significant step, but the real work – and often the greatest challenge – lies in consistently executing it over months and years. We understand how easily the urgent demands of client matters and daily operations can derail even the best-laid plans. Maintaining focus, coordinating efforts across busy partners or practice groups, tracking progress objectively, and ensuring accountability requires dedicated discipline and process management – resources often stretched thin within law firms. It's deeply frustrating when valuable strategic initiatives lose momentum or fail to launch simply due to a lack of sustained execution oversight.

PerformLaw provides the structured support and persistent focus needed to ensure your strategic plan delivers tangible results. Since 2003, our work with small and mid-sized law firms has gone beyond planning; we specialize in partnering with firms to effectively manage the critical implementation phase. Leveraging our exclusive focus on law firm operations and management for over two decades, we act as your dedicated execution and accountability partner, bringing:

  • Disciplined Implementation Management: Applying our proven 3-Step process and utilizing practical tools (like MS Planner) to translate strategy into detailed tasks, track progress against timelines, and maintain consistent oversight.
  • Objective Accountability Facilitation: We work closely with your firm's internal strategy liaison, facilitating regular progress reviews, providing unbiased reporting, and helping ensure stakeholders remain accountable for their commitments to the plan.
  • Deep Operational Insight: Understanding how law firms work allows us to anticipate implementation roadblocks and help navigate resource allocation or operational challenges effectively.
  • Integrated Strategic & Financial View: We ensure implementation efforts align with your firm's financial capacity and strategic goals, often working hand-in-hand with our Virtual CFO services for seamless oversight.

Don't let your valuable strategic plan become unrealized potential. Partner with PerformLaw to provide the active management, objective accountability, and experienced guidance needed to translate your vision into sustained action and measurable success.

Getting Started in 3 Simple Steps

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Initial Consultation
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We explore your firm's challenges and objectives to understand your specific needs.

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Proposal & Agreement: You receive and approve our detailed proposal outlining the precise scope of services and a transparent fixed fee

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Engagement Launch: After initial payment is received, we schedule the engagement and start work

Maximize Your Strategic Plan ROI: Invest in an Execution Partnership

You've dedicated valuable time and resources to creating a strategic plan – a roadmap for your firm's future success. However, the journey from a plan document to tangible results is where many strategies falter. Relying solely on internal resources to manage long-term implementation amidst the constant demands of client work often leads to:

Stalled Momentum: Initial enthusiasm fades, and strategic initiatives get pushed aside by urgent operational needs.
Lack of Accountability: Without dedicated oversight and structured check-ins, responsibilities can become unclear, and progress can lag without consequence.
Wasted Planning Effort: The significant investment in developing the strategy fails to deliver its intended return if execution isn't consistently managed.

Don't let your firm's strategic vision become another plan left on the shelf. Ensure its success with dedicated, expert execution support.

PerformLaw's Ongoing Strategy Execution & Accountability service acts as your implementation partner. Our structured 3-Step process, objective monitoring, and persistent focus provide the discipline needed to maintain momentum, ensure accountability, adapt strategically, and ultimately achieve the goals you set out to achieve. Consider it insurance for your strategic investment – the most effective way to guarantee your plan translates into measurable, lasting results.

Ready to ensure your strategic plan delivers its full potential? Contact PerformLaw today to discuss how our Implementation & Accountability Partnership can drive results for your firm.

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WHAT SOME OF OUR CLIENTS SAY

"PerformLaw helped us to grow and transition from a first-generation law firm with their expertise in business strategy, compensation plans, and law firm management. Any firm- especially small to mid-size firms - can benefit from working with Brian and PerformLaw."

  • Alan Brackett
  • Mouledoux, Bland, Legrand & Brackett


"For almost 25 years, I have relied on Brian Kennel for providing spot-on financial, strategic, and marketing advice."

  • Campbell E. Wallace,
  • Frilot LLC


"PerformLaw helped our firm determine our profitability model and helped us to increase our business growth. We thoroughly enjoyed working with them through the process."

  • K. Patrick Douglas,
  • Douglas, Haun & Heidemann


"PerformLaw is great with the small details while maintaining perspective on the big picture. They have helped us to reduce our firm's overhead and increase profitability."

  • Eric Schorr,
  • Sessions, Fishman, Nathan & Israel, LLC


"Brian is a true expert in the areas of law firm strategic planning, management, and marketing. The legal marketplace is rapidly evolving, and his approach helps firms deal proactively with these changes."

  • Sid Hardy ,
  • McCranie Sistrunk Anzelmo Hardy McDaniel & Welch


"Brian analyzes potential obstacles to the continued growth of a law firm and creates ways to overcome them. His experience and overall knowledge of law firm management are invaluable."

  • Morgan J. Wells, Jr. ,
  • Larzelere Picou Wells Simpson Lonero, LLC


"Over a three month period, PerformLaw worked with each member of our firm and created a written marketing plan with specific recommendations on how our firm can take our marketing efforts to the next level.”

  • Karl Steinberger,
  • Heidelberg, Steinberger, Colmer, Burrow, P.A.


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