Worried about managing cost of complex matters when pricing by value? Consider Agile techniques
It is not uncommon to hear lawyers say that, while they like the concept of value pricing, it could not…
It is not uncommon to hear lawyers say that, while they like the concept of value pricing, it could not…
The purpose of the recent second edition of the Legal Ombudsman’s Guidance on Good Costs Practice is to encourage solicitors…
Earned Value Management (EVM) is a project control technique which combines measurements of scope, schedule and costs. Applying an EVM-like…
Would you expect to stay in business if just 1.4% of your clients agreed strongly that your law firm ‘provides…
In a well-known passage from Home Office v Lowndes, Lord Woolf pointed out that: ‘In modern litigation, with the emphasis…
In my last post I outlined interim results from the Cost Management Pilot Scheme currently underway in the Technology and…
Surveys of lawyers at smaller law firms (less than 20 fee earners) in the U.S. by LexisNexis have shown that…
The requirement to file cost budgets in civil litigation is enforced strictly, as the Mitchell case showed. However filing a…
According to the final report (‘the report’) on the civil litigation cost management pilot, most of the judges who took…
There seemed to be an air of unease in a room full of young litigators recently. The occasion was a seminar about…