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…
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…
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…
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…
Project management, process improvement and pricing of legal services
An increasing number of traditional law firms and new market entrants are putting effort into creating an operating model for…
Project Management and legal service delivery: what would you like to see in a LPM training seminar?
Research conducted by the Ark Group has shown that professional support lawyers (PSLs) and knowledge management (KM) professionals in law…
Client need and some trends in legal service delivery
After speaking to some innovative law firms and attending some interesting legal industry events recently, I think some common trends…
Legal Process Mapping: will law firms fully embrace change?
Reflecting the way many of their commercial clients operate, an increasing number of law firms are investigating project based techniques…