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Deep Dive into Law Firm Operations: Strategies for Efficiency, Productivity, and Profitability in 2025

Dan Safran, founder of Unbiased Consulting and a recognized thought leader in law firm financial and operational strategy, joined Carlyse Evans, former Baker McKenzie Global Head of Administrative Operations, and Michele Blay, Senior Advisor, to uncover the transformative strategies law firms are leveraging to achieve efficiency, productivity, and profitability in 2025.

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Unbiased Thinking: A Blueprint for Your Law Firm Billing & Collections Transformation

we find that law firms generally experience a similar set of common challenges and costs tied to inefficient billing and collections practices. These can be quite significant — at some firms, we have seen profitability drag exceeding 6%.
This is a cost no firm can afford; and to that end, the following offers a blueprint for how Unbiased Consulting advises clients when they wish to transform billing and collections.

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“What Tech-Savvy General Counsel Know That You Don’t: From Digital Naïve to Digital Native” – A Law Department Guide to Modern Technology

By Scott Rosenberg – Unbiased Consulting For global general counsel, the proper administration and development of IT make up an area of management oversight which needs both focus and understanding. Technology continues to gain importance for legal departments as a primary instrument for ensuring collaboration, sharing knowledge, achieving efficiency, controlling cost, mitigating risk, measuring performance

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Will BigLaw Regret Its Hiring Spree As The Economy Softens?

See Aebra Coe’s timely Law360 article on “Will BigLaw Regret Its Hiring Spree As The Economy Softens?” Law360 (June 20 2022 9:02 PM EDT) Dan Safran, Unbiased Consulting President/CEO, said “My concern is that what we’ve done over the last two to three years is we have dramatically increased the cost of delivering legal service.” Safran

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It’s Time For Mid-Law To Take Charge Of Managing Info

See Emma Cueto’s Law360 article on “It’s Time For Mid-Law To Take Charge Of Managing Info” Law360 (June 21, 2022 12:51 PM EDT) Dan Safran, Unbiased Consulting President/CEO, said ” The whole area of [information governance] is so overwhelming that firms just need to take it one step at a time. As I tell clients, ‘The

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How Firms Can Prep Now For Future Drop In Demand

See Emma Cueto’s timely Law360 article on How Firms Can Prep Now for Future Drop in Demand. Law360 (October 22, 2021, 3:06 PM EDT) Dan Safran, Unbiased Consulting President/CEO, said ” firms should also be looking for ways to do more with the attorneys and staff they have by improving efficiency, especially with staff and business

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Mid-Law Advised To Mind Its Metrics To Keep Up With BigLaw

See Emma Cueto’s timely Law360 article on Mid-Law Firms Weigh How To Retool Offices For Attys’ Return. Law360 (March 16, 2021, 4:50 PM EDT) Dan Safran, Unbiased Consulting President/CEO, says that while larger law firms have become quite sophisticated in their analytics and data leverage, mid-sized firms can also find data analytics to be invaluable to

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