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Combining nearly twenty years of Legal Marketing, Legal Sales and Law Firm Pricing experience, Patrick Johansen helps law firm leaders understand the role Pricing Strategies play in growing revenue and improving profitability.
As the legal industry's first Certified Pricing Professional, Patrick has a wealth of advanced knowledge of Pricing principles
As head of two AmLaw 200 Pricing & Project Management teams, Patrick has a diverse understanding of Pricing functions, day-to-day procedures, and staffing requirements
As an award-winning speaker, Patrick is known for his high-energy, highly entertaining presentation style, which complements his content-rich, highly interactive teaching methods. Patrick makes training fun
An award-winning speaker, Patrick is known for his high-energy, highly entertaining presentation style, which often includes audience interactions and small-group games/competitions
With a career in both business development and Pricing, Patrick is an exceptional resource for how Pricing Strategy works within law firms to win work, to improve margins, and to grow profits.
Combining both the art and science of Pricing, this presentation introduces the importance and power of Pricing as a discipline, as well as a financial tool for law firms.
Has your firm embraced value propositions (VPs)? This presentation outlines the six interrelated elements of successful VPs that will help you regain Pricing power.
This presentation walks you through the cross-functional collaboration necessary to define your Pricing Strategy and the key processes to ensure successful execution.
This presentation outlines eight ways your firm can integrate Pricing and Project Management techniques into your existing firm processes to improve the client relationship.
If your firm is not proactive in its Pricing Strategy, your firm is not maximizing its profits. This presentation offers a number of practical tips to increase your firm's bottom line.
Learn the five models of a Pricing function and, more importantly, the steps your firm can follow to build a successful Pricing function.
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Patrick is the only legal industry professional to have been certified in Pricing (Certified Pricing Professional) and Legal Management (Certified Legal Manager).
He has spent 15 years in law firm marketing, business development, and Pricing. Recently, he led two AmLaw 200 Pricing/Legal Project Management teams.
Patrick created the first law firm Pricing blog (www.patrickonpricing.com) and has contributed chapters to Pricing on the Front Line (ABA, 2017) and 2020 Vision: The Future of Legal Services, 2nd Edition (ARK, 2015). He has served as a Board member of ALA Greater Chicago and LMA Midwest. He has been active in ALA, ILTA, LMA, LSSO. He earned a B.A. from DePauw University and M.A. from Purdue University.
As a former Business Development professional, I know the challenges of creating pricing proposals when responding to RFPs and to pitch requests. As a Pricing professional, I now know that the practice of submitting a single price diminishes success and, often, profits. Why? Buyers want choices. Without multiple price options, firms are setting themselves up for failure. The following will help law leaders avoid that failure.
As a former Business Development professional, I know the challenges of creating pricing proposals when responding to RFPs and to pitch requests. As a Pricing professional, I now know that the practice of submitting a single price diminishes success and, often, profits. Why? Buyers want choices. Without multiple price options, firms are setting themselves up for failure. The following will help law leaders avoid that failure.
Continuing to pursue the status quo—offering only a single price—carries several consequences. First, the status quo does nothing to help your firm improve its low success rate with pitches and proposals. Second, this strategy ignores one of the fundamental needs of buyers: options (aka choices). Third, a single price encourages buyers to search for alternatives. Fourth, a single price encourages buyers to negotiate.
Law leaders can move beyond the status quo (the Single Option), and embrace a multiple price option strategy. The two options below will improve your firm's Pitches & Proposals (P&P) Pricing: