Data & Metrics

De-Listing: Breaking Down the Top Law Firm Lists

With the annual publication of the AmLaw 100 and Second Hundred, it’s rankings season for BigLaw. Think of it as our little industry’s equivalent of…

Bruce MacEwen June 01, 2015

Altman Weil Report Shows Link between Strategic Shifts and Firm Performance

The annual Law Firms In Transition report from Altman Weil is always a good barometer for what's eating, ailing or tormenting the law firms of…

David Curle May 20, 2015

For Richer or for Poorer? What Does the New “PPL” Metric Tell Us?

The American Lawyer magazine published this week its annual statistics on the 100 largest American law firms. For the first time in a decade it…

May 06, 2015

Peer Monitor Economic Index Holds Steady in 1st Quarter

EAGAN, Minn.—The Peer Monitor Economic Index (PMI), which measures the relative health of the legal marketplace, was unchanged at 54 in the first quarter, the…

Peer Monitor May 05, 2015

Quality Metric Example: Litigation Witness Files

I recently discussed the importance of standardized quality metrics. I’ll now work through the process of how to define such metrics—this is an exercise and…

Ron A. Dolin May 04, 2015

Who Makes More? Partners or General Counsels?

At some point in our lives, we would all give a pound of flesh just to make partner, but the reality is that many partners…

Michael Allen April 20, 2015

Client-Centric Data Analysis, Part I

Large law firms recognize the importance of client focus. To relate to clients, these firms work to understand their clients’ business and industry. Yet, for…

Dr. Evan Parker April 06, 2015

Pricing Power Meets Big Data & the New Analytics

The growth of professionals in Law Land with the word “pricing” in their title has been explosive over the past couple of years. It’s a…

Bruce MacEwen April 02, 2015

Q&A Interview: Survey Finds Firms Using More Benchmarks in Lawyer Evaluations, Says NALP’s Patterson

The NALP Foundation for Law Career Research and Education released a new report on lawyer performance evaluations. The report, entitled How Lawyer Evaluations Measure Up,…

Tammy A. Patterson March 19, 2015

Video: Marketing Trends Survey Shows Firms Encouraging Internal Collaboration, Says LawVision’s Coulter

Silvia Coulter, Principal Consultant at LawVision Group and Co-Chair of the Marketing Partner Forum, speaks to LEI Chairman Ralph Baxter about Thomson Reuters’ recent survey…

Silvia Coulter February 25, 2015

New Study Shows What Your Corporate Clients are Worried About

Law firms and their leaders are usually willing to gaze into any crystal ball to divine what their clients are thinking, and more importantly, determine…

Gregg Wirth February 23, 2015

Peer Monitor Economic Index Falls in 4th Quarter

The Peer Monitor Economic Index (PMI), which measures the relative health of the legal marketplace, fell in the fourth quarter, dropping three points to 54.…

Peer Monitor February 18, 2015