George Rudoy jokingly refers to his job as “marriage counseling.” In his practice as Partner and Firmwide Leader of Legal Management Consulting and eDiscovery at Crowe, he is often right in the middle of relationships between in-house corporate legal departments and the law firms that serve them. Like a marriage, those relationships face evolving expectations and needs for...

Pricing, budgeting, and Legal Practice Management (LPM) have increasingly become ground zero for the application of data analytics to legal practice. While data is becoming important in all aspects of legal practice, including strategy, performance management, client intelligence, document review, and many other aspects of the business, pricing is the closest thing the...

“Lawyers want one place to go for the answer. And the answers have to be definitive.” That was the simple answer provided by Simpson Thatcher’s Director of Knowledge Management, Tanisha Little, when asked what it means to have a single source of truth. Getting there, however, is not so simple, but a panel discussion at Litera’s Changing Lawyer Virtual Summit 2021 entitled...

You wouldn't expect to see Gordon Ramsay cutting into a perfectly cooked beef wellington with a cheap knife he picked up at the grocery store. Danica Patrick wasn't winning NASCAR races in a street-legal daily commuter car. Artists, skilled craftspeople, artisans, and athletes all bring phenomenal talent and years of dedicated effort to their work. But they don't stop...

Last week's blog, on the importance of Data Governance, looked at how and why law firms use data. We stressed how essential it is to have a Data Governance plan, not only for safeguarding the data you collect, but also to use it to improve the business of law. For many law firms, this will entail combining and analyzing multiple streams of data within their firm to...

You can have the best Legal Project Management strategy and team in the world, but without adoption they will have little impact on your firm's profitability or operations. This week, we offer advice on mapping stakeholders and communicating for better adoption. As ever, this series is designed to be a practical guide so we will be sharing tips and tools gathered during...

A survey performed by LexisNexis as recently as 2018 found that 74% of mid-sized firms in the UK do not measure the ROI for investments in technology. This is in spite of the fact that 87% believe that technology contributes to profit growth to 'some extent'. Plainly, these two statistics are at the heart of a conundrum facing the legal world. On one hand, we see an...