A template for law firm process improvement: professional sport
Lawyers and law firms could learn a lot from professional sports. The aim of professional sportsmen and women is to…
Noise, signal, action: how lawyers can get better at estimating (and other aspects of practising law)
Lawyers are just as poor at predicting the future as economists. In his book ‘The Signal and the Noise’ Nate…
Why law firms need to get better at deciphering signals from the noise
The title of this post alludes to the best-selling book by Nate Silver, ‘The Signal and The Noise: The Art…
Project management skills of lawyers: a litmus test of competence?
Several law firms have told me recently that some of their practice areas have lost out when bidding for new…
Pricing legal services with purpose and confidence
Process improvement, productivity gains, pricing strategies and project based legal service delivery: responses by legal service providers to the competitive…
Cost budget practice and precedent form h – how might these be developed in future?
According to the final report (‘the report’) on the civil litigation cost management pilot, most of the judges who took…
What features should you look for in an LPM support system?
Often when I discuss legal project management (LPM) with lawyers it is usually they who first raise the issue of…
An Introduction to Value Stream Mapping for Lawyers and Business Development Staff: Part 3 – implementing improvements
A future state value stream map (VSM) can be a daunting prospect, likely as it is to consist of new…
An Introduction to Value Stream Mapping for Lawyers and Business Development Staff: Part 2 – visualising a future state
It will be recalled from part one of this short series that the primary purpose of a ‘current state’ value…
An Introduction to Value Stream Mapping for Lawyers and Business Development Staff: Part 1 – mapping the current state.
Recently, a number of law firms in the U.K have announced the completion of value stream mapping exercises covering particular…