Pick Up Line: There Are Lots of Different Ways to Manage Reception in a Modern Law Firm
Speed of response and engagement is essential for starting legal consumers on the client journey . If you don’t get to your leads quickly, you won’t have a chance to close them . So, it’s important that, if someone calls your law firm, you pick up . . . or, have someone pick up for you . That’s in part because 64% of law firms voicemails are never returned. But, most lawyers aren’t picking up the phones on their own . And, traditionally, the answer for that was that the law firm would hire a receptionist, who s a t in the exact same, physical space every day, while answer ed phone calls on the same , exact phone . But now , you’ve got more options. You can still hire a full-time, traditional legal secretary or receptionist, who can sit at a desk and pick up the phone , sure . But, VoIP phone systems can be used from any internet-ready device . So, you could have that person work outside the office . And, if you didn’t want to hire an employee to do this