2023

Navigating Staffing Challenges in Law Firms: Embracing Legal Assistant Teaming

So, what exactly is “legal assistant teaming”? At its core, it’s a modern approach for structuring legal assistant support, akin to the proven team-based approach adopted in areas such as office services, information technology, mailroom operations, and records departments. Law firms over the years recognized the value in combining the talents of individuals into cohesive teams for enhanced efficiency and economies of scale – a successful strategy now being applied to the legal assistant support model.

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Modernizing the Law Firm Administrative Support Model

Business Problem: Law firms require more efficiency and effectiveness to service a multitude of lawyer support tasks and requests.  Importantly, considerable (millions) of dollars of cost savings opportunities exist related to the rebalancing of administrative support delivery.   Those opportunities include: Cost savings, Efficiency improvement, Productivity enhancement, Cycle time reduction and Improved client service. Pre-COVID Administrative Support

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Significant Opportunities Exist to Reduce Law Department Spend, Without Compromising Service or Value

Unbiased Consulting understands that a key measure in assessing law department performance is its ability to effectively control internal costs and manage outside counsel spend. Unbiased can lead you to develop effective monitoring and control policies, procedures and systems in the core competencies of financial management and vendor management. With 30 years of experience in

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Law Firm Administrative Operations Improvement – Avoid Adding Headcount – a Case Study

This large east coast based national law firm historically added administrative and operations headcount to support its rapid expansion. Instead of exploiting new ways of working, it increased its overhead burden, depressing profits. The client approached Unbiased Consulting looking for ways to support the firm’s lawyers and clients and deliver work more quickly, efficiently and

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