Your clients, writes Leslie Meagley in Five Tips for Thriving Law Firms, see legal problems as business problems. That’s why conversations with them – to learn more about the business problems that keep them up at night – will make you a better lawyer. And strengthen your relationships to boot.

Pick a few of your largest, strategic, or most influential clients and schedule a conversation to learn the issues that are top of mind. Then share what you learn with your colleagues inside the firm.

That’s just the first of Meagley’s five practical tips on finding success and making your practice thrive. Read the four others, then get to work implementing her advice.