Professional services

Our legal business services help lawyers to develop their practices within the rapidly changing market of the new millennium and manage the change in their environment.

Managing a legal business requires you to operate your practice on a commercial basis whilst maintaining your professional image and standards. The implications of the changing environment for both partners and the firms they own are far reaching, and call for careful planning and management.

Working with today's issues
We are constantly called upon to provide taxation, audit, accounting and business advisory services to our clients.

Any advice can only be effective when it is provided within the context of a thorough understanding of your practice, the legal industry and the issues that are driving change.

Today's driving issues include:

• The Law Practitioners Bill and proposed changes to conveyancing
• Building a relationship marketing programme with clients
• Internet service/precedent providers
• Increased local and overseas competition
• Consolidation of practices into bigger and multidisciplinary practices
• Possible corporatisation of law firms
• Increased mobility of parties and qualified personnel
• Succession planning
• Movement of commercial work areas from provincial centres as a result of business restructuring.

In addition to our extensive range of services we can offer specialised assistance with:

• Risk Management
• The business plan
• Management structure
• Firm's partnership agreement
• Partnership changes
• Financial management
• Financing the business
• Partners taxation
• Tax planning
• Compliance work.

Your next step

For further information on how Grant Thornton can help you please contact:

Auckland: service.auckland@nz.gt.com
Christchurch: info.christchurch@nz.gt.com
Wellington: info.wellington@nz.gt.com