Process Management

Optimizing legal project management: Can you do the Kanban?

Can a stack of sticky notes, a pen, and a blank wall revolutionize your firm’s legal work? Kanban, a visual system for legal project management,…

Don Philmlee January 14, 2021

Which path for my law firm: Data warehouse or data lake?

Data-driven decision making has become an important topic among law firm leadership as they notice the success of progressive law firms that have established effective…

Todd Painter January 12, 2021

2021 Report on the State of the Legal Market: An “inflection point” for law firms

The 2021 Report on the State of the Legal Market, issued today by the Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession at Georgetown University Law…

Thomson Reuters Institute January 12, 2021

COO & CFO Forum: What do clients want? Law firms pivot and adapt throughout the pandemic, panel says

There’s no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way businesses serve their clients, likely forevermore. Businesses have rapidly moved purchasing options online, or…

Sameena Kluck December 15, 2020

How one midsize law firm is innovating and driving change

Esther Bowers, director of Practice Management at Honigman, says that she’s focused much of her efforts during her legal career on advancing law firm interests…

Natalie Runyon December 10, 2020

If not now, when? Small law firms need to improve their business development

There’s a good reason I have written extensively about why small law firms need to improve their business development acumen. Small law firm leaders themselves…

Mark Haddad November 23, 2020

Are Legal Pricing and Legal Project Management becoming victims of their own success?

I recently had the pleasure of moderating a fascinating discussion on the evolution of the pricing professional and the use of technology for matter pricing…

Rob Stote November 16, 2020

How to get more than your fair share of client spending

All successful law firms have one thing in common: The client base acts as the beating heart and the driving force for change. And the…

Genna Stainforth November 02, 2020

CURIOUS MINDS: Law firms need to adopt a 21st century mindset, says Salesforces’ Wei Chen

We continue our monthly column, “Curious Minds”, created by Rose Ors to tap into the minds of legal innovators, disrupters, and out-of-the-box thinkers to learn…

Rose D. Ors October 27, 2020

Algorithmophobia: Overcoming your fear of algorithms and AI

This surprisingly exhaustive catalogue of phobias does not include a fear of algorithms or fear of artificial intelligence. The closest on the list may be…

Dr. Zev J. Eigen October 22, 2020

Successful law firms protect productivity with savvy and strong teams, according to the 2020 Dynamic Law Firms Report

What drives a successful law firm? Often, the answer involves learning from the success of other law firms. Lawyers are steeped in a culture that…

Thomson Reuters Institute October 22, 2020

The “case” for digital operations platforms in legal operations

This series was co-authored by Kenneth Jones, chief technologist for Tanenbaum Keale, and Jason Moyse, director at Autologyx and principal at Law Made. In the…

Thomson Reuters Institute October 21, 2020