Services

Merrilyn Astin Tarlton has worked with hundreds of lawyers and law firms within the United States and beyond.  In essence, she helps law firms to do four things:

• Look forward instead of back
• Think differently
• Focus resources on profitable action
• Value and nurture each individual
  

Practice Groups and Branch Offices
How can they become energetic and profitable enterprises?  Merrilyn’s experience with Practice Groups and Branch Offices is myriad:
-   Strategic planning
-   Teambuilding
-   Market analysis
-   Marketing planning
-   Leadership development
-   Interpersonal and behavioral problem intervention
-   Retreat facilitation
-   Client feedback

New Enterprise
Entrepreneurship wasn’t taught in most law schools.  Yet, today’s market demands new approaches and new enterprise from lawyers accustomed to thinking like the past.  Law firms and lawyers contemplating new business directions have engaged Merrilyn Astin Tarlton to:
-   Assess human and financial potential,
-   Develop and refine strategy,
-   Create and implement marketing strategy, and
-   Navigate the internal political resistance to change.

Professional Development and Coaching
As a law firm, talent is your most critical resource.  Sure, you worry about CLE, but many firms see that the future depends on more than just legal competence.  They have engaged Astin Tarlton to develop and conduct training and coaching programs for their lawyers and professional staff focused on:
-   Leadership
-   Law Practice Management
-   Business Development
-   Client Service
-   Planning
-   Creativity and innovation
-   Delegation
-   Diversity
-   Career development
-   Project management

Planning
Most efficient use of resources, strong leadership, teambuilding, strong market timing, profitability. . .it all depends on the development of a clear, strategic and effective plan that involves the right stakeholders at the right time.

Provoking Thought. . .Providing Perspective
Sometimes all you need is someone to stir things up.  Get your people looking outside instead of inside.  Get you out of that same old box.  Merrilyn Tarlton is an experienced and dynamic speaker/facilitator.  Law firm clients see her as a critical ingredient for the success of their:
Retreats,
-   Practice Group and Branch Office meetings
-   Planning sessions,
-   Staff and associate training programs, and
-   Firm leadership orientation.