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Law Departments – Fractional Hiring of Legal Operations Professionals

By Scott Rosenberg – Unbiased Consulting The value of the legal operations role within the legal department is now well accepted.  However, the ability to find experienced, qualified candidates has proven difficult and/or cost prohibitive. Unbiased Consulting provides an option to retain experienced resources on a part-time or temporary basis to drive cost savings and […]

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Managing Your Remote Resources – Pools, Service Centers, Administration and Associates

By Dan Safran – Unbiased Consulting The new COVID-inspired, remote workplace has caused many law firms and law departments to contemplate adopting more modern task management and collaboration solutions. This includes creation of administrative resource pools or developing centralized, virtual service centers to support the organization’s lawyers. Our clients tell us that delegation and information

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Earned Value Management – Assessing and Controlling Project Success in Law Firms and Law Departments

A Viewpoint on Legal Project Management Best Practice You have a well-constructed budget and routinely check actuals against it, but your case or transaction is rapidly approaching or already exceeds initial projections. Legal clients don’t like such surprises, especially cost overruns.  Properly monitoring and controlling a legal project, often called a “matter”, requires adherence to

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Deploying a High Value and High Performance Information Technology Function within in Today’s (and Tomorrow’s) Law Firm

Developing and maintaining a high performance Information Technology (IT) function within a law firm is not easy, especially these days.  As the reader knows, we are experiencing unprecedented, highly disruptive changes in the present day legal market.  The following is intended to provide a model for your own journey. Before reading forward, please recognize a

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Improving Law Firm and/or Client Profitability – a Case Study

By Dan Safran – Unbiased Consulting Unbiased Consulting successfully assisted a large, US-based law firm to significantly improve profitability of work performed for one of its largest clients. Unbiased Consulting completed a four (4) week, focused evaluation of work performed by the law firm, for a long term, high revenue client. The firm spent years

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Techniques for Selecting and Managing Outside Counsel

Altman Weil and Unbiased Consulting regularly partner on law department strategy and operational efficiency improvement projects for legal departments – of all sizes.  Our work also spans large and small law firms and solo practitioners.  Our team observes that General Counsel struggle to manage outside lawyers while still preserving value and responsiveness alongside cost effective

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Contract Management vs. Contract Discovery vs. Document Management Systems Needs and Solutions

Many of Unbaised Consulting’s prospects and clients are routinely confused by the nomenclature and differences between Contract Management, Contract Discovery and Document Management Systems opportunities and solutions. What follows is intended to offer some clarity between contract and document terminology and scope of technologies.

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Improving Law Firm Business Productivity through Process and Automation – a Case Study

Objective: Unbiased Consulting was engaged by a 700-lawyer global law firm to develop an broad ranging roadmap to sync to future scale. Over multiple years, the firm’s operational strategy, processes, the operations organization and automation lagged the needs of the practices and business.  The goal of the firm is to achieve significant upward growth and

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