Legal Process Mapping in 7 Steps
Legal Process Improvement is defined by the International Institute of Legal Project Management (IILPM) as A structured methodology for optimizing…
Legal process improvement initiatives: 7 tips to help you make a successful start
You have been made responsible for the delivery of a legal process improvement initiative in your law firm. What are…
Process Improvement: Commercial Contracting and Putting
It’s perfectly feasible to run projects to improve performance in activities as diverse as commercial contracting and putting (as in…
Legal Process Automation: 10 tips to help you automate your legal processes
Legal process automation is not new. In some areas of legal practice, most notably the so-called high volume / low…
Structured approaches to operational change in legal services
Identifying, implementing and sustaining operational change in legal services is hard to do. The fact is implementing and sustaining operational…
Legal IT projects to improve efficiency – why you should define success in advance.
It looks like being a busy 2016 for the legal IT community. Ninety-five percent of law firms surveyed in the Price…
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 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…
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…
Legal service needs of SME’s
Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SME's) make up 99.9% of private sector businesses in the U.K, with a combined turnover…