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Managing your brand (Pt 3)

05 May 2017 / Dominic Zammit
Issue: 7744 / Categories: Features
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Your people are your untapped brand asset, says Dominic Zammit

Great legal brands are driven by great people, united by a shared mission. This mission is founded on a set of common values that sit at the core of the law firm strategy and act as the lynchpin between the employer proposition and client promise.

But how does a firm agree the right set of values? And once those values are defined, how does it engage a workforce to embrace them, embody them and evangelise them in the outside world?

Achieving authenticity

In recent years, legal brand strategists have worked hard to define and outline an approach to achieving ultimate ‘authenticity’. In a bid to appear human, trustworthy and approachable, firms are encouraged to re-spin stale corporate verbiage to inject a much-needed hint of personality.

While the sterility and polish of the word ‘authenticity’ itself lacks personality, and the one-size-fits all approach to establishing an authentic brand proposition flies in the face of reason, the underlying premise has merit.

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Muckle LLP—Rachael Chapman

Muckle LLP—Rachael Chapman

Sports, education and charities practice welcomes senior associate

Ellisons—Carla Jones

Ellisons—Carla Jones

Partner and head of commercial litigation joins in Chelmsford

Freeths—Louise Mahon

Freeths—Louise Mahon

Firm strengthens Glasgow corporate practice with partner hire

NEWS
One in five in-house lawyers suffer ‘high’ or ‘severe’ work-related stress, according to a report by global legal body, the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)
The Legal Ombudsman’s (LeO’s) plea for a budget increase has been rejected by the Law Society and accepted only ‘with reluctance’ by conveyancers
Overcrowded prisons, mental health hospitals and immigration centres are failing to meet international and domestic human rights standards, the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) has warned
Two speedier and more streamlined qualification routes have been launched for probate and conveyancing professionals
Workplace stress was a contributing factor in almost one in eight cases before the employment tribunal last year, indicating its endemic grip on the UK workplace
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