Rod Smith is a qualified barrister and solicitor with over 20 years experience specialising in commercial litigation. He now consults into law firms and businesses about how to operate more effectively and efficiently. Together with Rebecca Morris, they head Paradigm Shift Group providing business mentoring and consultancy services that enable organisations to transform the way they do business. Rod brings 25 years of experience of legal practice including being a partner in three firms and running his own. Coupled to that he has attended the Thought Leaders Business School in Australia in 2014 and has an armoury of practical models and new skills to apply for the benefit of his clients.He is in the process of writing a book: Shift lawyers: the changing face of legal services in New Zealand. It is due out in September 2015.Specialties: 1.Building practices through team development or individually bya. Taking lawyers through the process of identifying target marketsb. Putting in place systems for solicitors to follow to achieve a useful profile in their target markets and increase their fee revenue.c. Mentoring where required to ensure the systems continue to work.2. Dealing with succession issues by getting both the retiring partner and the successor to work to a common plan to present to clients an attractive option to stay with the firm.3. Creating mutually agreed strategies for firms that are merging so that the clients are encouraged to work the new firm.