Efficiency

White Paper: How the Cloud Can Help Shape Law Firms’ Data Security Efforts

Cloud technology has offered a new opportunity for users — including law firm and corporations — to take their data sharing, storage and networking responsibilities into…

Alexander Major May 05, 2016

Podcast: Reorganizing Your Midsize Firm for the Future

Many firms follow the “barbershop model” – an organizational structure that rewards individual behavior but often results in isolated practice areas with weak cross-selling activity…

John Remsen, Jr. April 26, 2016

Restarting Your Firm’s Stagnant Lawyer Efficiency Programs

A law firm’s knowledge strategy program — often created amid much serious talk about increased work efficiency yielding more time to tend to client relationships…

Gregg Wirth April 25, 2016

Benchmarking: Knowing Where Your Firm Stands

The idea of knowing where you stand in the business world is hardly new, but it is one with which the legal industry has struggled…

Bill Josten April 12, 2016

Will a Lean Six Sigma Diet Save Big Law?

There's a growing list of consulting firms and organizations marketing themselves as Lean Six Sigma (LSS) shops aimed at improving legal business operations, such as…

Sean La Roque-Doherty April 07, 2016

Four Common Cybersecurity Myths Debunked

One of the greatest challenges for organizations, including law firms, attempting to address cybersecurity risks is the number of fundamental security myths that cause organizations…

Michael Overly March 31, 2016

White Paper — Artificial Intelligence in Law: The State of Play 2016

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its impact and applications in the legal profession is examined in a new white paper, entitled Artificial Intelligence in Law The…

Michael Mills March 24, 2016

State of the Cloud at Law Firms: The Interstitial Phase of Law Firm Cloud Philosophy

The word Cloud can be a divisive word at law firms. Recently uttering the term during technology meetings with East Coast-based law firms with between…

Joseph Raczynski March 23, 2016

Prof. Davenport to Speak on Impact of Automation on Human Labor at Upcoming Legal Executive Institute Event

Human history has been said to develop along a continuum of evolutionary achievements. From the invention of the cotton gin to the industrial revolution, human…

Legal Executive Institute March 22, 2016

Making Transparency Count in Client Billing

I read a recent entry on BTI Consulting’s Mad Clientist blog with great interest. Who wouldn’t want to learn how to charge clients “whatever you…

Bill Josten March 21, 2016

Webinar Preview: Making Time for Efficiency — the Knowledge Strategy Approach

Almost every law firm — from the largest AmLaw 100 legal giant to the smallest solo practice — can take steps to improve or at…

Gregg Wirth March 21, 2016

Upcoming Webinar: Changing Practice Management to Use Staff, Space and Technology for Better Client Service

Today’s legal marketplace is more competitive than ever, and many law firms are feeling the pressure to modify their practice management strategies in order to…

Gregg Wirth March 14, 2016