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Smarter Paths to Generative AI In Law Firms

The legal industry is undergoing rapid change, and successful law firms evolve their operations to maintain profitability, improve efficiency, and meet rising client expectations...

Strategic AI Enablement for an Am Law 25 Firm

Unbiased Consulting had previously partnered with the firm on other high-impact initiatives. Recognizing the urgency, the firm brought us in directly—no RFP required. What set us apart wasn’t just...

Modernizing the Revenue Cycle: A Strategic Imperative for Law Firms

The legal industry is undergoing rapid change, and successful law firms evolve their operations to maintain profitability, improve efficiency, and meet rising client expectations...

Legal Operations Built for the Future: Unbiased Consulting and KermaPartners Announce Strategic Partnership to Modernize Law Firms and Legal Departments Across the Americas

The legal industry is undergoing rapid change, and successful law firms evolve their operations to maintain profitability, improve efficiency, and meet rising client expectations...

Create An Operations Blueprint for Efficiency and Profitability in 2025

The legal industry is undergoing rapid change, and successful law firms evolve their operations to maintain profitability, improve efficiency, and meet rising client expectations...

The Future of Lawyer Development in the Age of Generative AI: Apprenticeship, Mentorship, and Hybrid Models

The legal profession, long steeped in tradition, is undergoing a seismic shift with the integration of generative AI tools. These technologies promise to reshape how lawyers approach research...

Death of the Hourly Rate and The Critical Need for Matter Planning

Applying knowledge gained from industry experts, this webinar presentation will show you how to effectively plan and price, allowing you to increase resource productivity while reducing legal spend...

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...

Adapting for Success: Strategic Insights for Law Firms in 2025 and Beyond

The legal industry is at an inflection point, grappling with challenges that range from rising client demands to technological disruption...

White Paper: Modernizing Associate Work Allocation in Law Firms

Introduction Law firms today face increasing pressure to modernize their operations to remain competitive, efficient, and attractive to talent. A critical area ripe for transformation is associate...

Unbiased Consulting Teams with Clark Hill and BigHand to Improve Collaboration and Future-proof Talent While Improving Administrative Support Services for Lawyers

AM Law 200 firm Clark Hill optimized task delegation and improved workflows with BigHand across 29 locations. 20,886 tasks completed in one month 30 LAA teams supported Material Tasks and Teams...

Generative AI in Legal. Improve Efficiency and Productivity, but Focus on the Business Problem, Not the Technology.

Law firms are working to understand the use of generative AI. However, we believe firms are focusing too much on the technology, vs. the business problem...

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...

The CMS Electoral Map – Building an Effective Coalition to Create the Change Necessary for Strong User Adoption.

Contract Management - Building an Effective Coalition to Create the Change Necessary for Strong User Adoption...

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...

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...

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...

Best Practices in Law Firm Merger/ Acquisition/ Combination Integration

Best Practices in Law Firm “Business of Law” Merger Integration...

Underestimating the Impact of Generative AI on Legal Services

Only 11% of 1,175 UK-based legal professionals surveyed in June 2023 by LexisNexis expect generative AI to have a “transformative impact” on legal services...

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...

Unbiased Consulting Co-Sponsors in the Withum Law Firm Leadership Summit – “Driving Success Through Culture & Innovation”

Unbiased Consulting to attend the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) CGI Conference in Las Vega...

“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...

The Best Strategy for Managing Risk

In light of market changes, law firms would benefit from looking at cost reduction, even in light of profit growth during the Pandemic...

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...

Unbiased Consulting Continues Helping Law Firms Reduce and Control Costs

Unbiased Consulting Continues Helping Law Firms Reduce and Control Costs...

Unbiased Consulting to Feature at ACEDS on Wednesday July 20th

Unbiased Consulting’s own Scott Rosenberg, joins with industry veterans, Mike Quartararo, President of the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS), and David Rueff, Chief Client...

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...

Unbiased Consulting to attend the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) CGI Conference in Las Vegas

Unbiased Consulting to attend the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) CGI Conference in Las Vega...

New Business/New Client Intake and Conflicts Profitability Improvement Services

Unbiased Consulting's law firm clients often think that implementation of new or or updated New Business or Client Intake / Conflicts software will solve their needs to reduce risk, speed matter...

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 ”...

Unbiased Consulting Weighs In – The BigHand Legal Workflow Management Survey Report

I recently had an opportunity to review the results of BigHand’s “The Legal Workflow Management Survey Report”.  As president of Unbiased Consulting, an independent consulting firm that...

Developing, Launching, and Growing Non-Legal Market Offerings

By: Mike Lowe, Unbiased Consulting Introduction In July a few years ago, on a roof deck overlooking the National Mall, at an event headlined by Senators from both parties, a large global firm launched...

Thinking about integrating document management with matter management?

Join Unbiased Consulting’s free webinar on June 2, 2021 at 12:00pm ET and receive a downloadable guide to “The Ten Steps to Integrated Matter and Document Management”. Today, law...

Cost Savings As a Risk Management Strategy

By: Nina Cunningham, Unbiased Consulting Since the active use of the term “risk management”, perhaps sometime in the 1980s, I have thought of the confluence of risk and management as an...

Quidlibet Research, Inc. associates with Unbiased Consulting, LLC to Help Law Firms Improve Legal Research and Law Library Management Delivery Services and Reduce Costs

The United Team Now Offers Differentiated Solutions for Insurance & Risk Management Audit and Cost Reduction Unbiased Consulting, LLC is pleased to announce its integration of the Legal Research...

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...

Building Law Firm Capabilities

By: Michael Lowe, Unbiased Consulting Introduction The Chief Knowledge Officer at a top firm recently asked me why I thought the same topics come up every year at legal conferences and in legal...

Mid-Law Weighs Big Changes To Staffing Post Pandemic

See Emma Cueto’s focused article on Mid-Law Weighs Big Changes To Staffing Post Pandemic Law360 (February 9, 2021, 4:25 PM EST) Dan Safran, Unbiased Consulting President/CEO, states that...

Mid-Law Firms Weigh How To Retool Offices For Attys’ Return

See Emma Cueto’s timely Law360 article on Mid-Law Firms Weigh How To Retool Offices For Attys’ Return. Law360 Pulse (January 28, 2021, 4:38 PM EST) Dan Safran, Unbiased Consulting...

Unbiased Legal Operations Consultants – Their Value Is Significant

There is impactful value in using an unbiased legal operations consultant to improve your business or legal operations.  These consultants, if you choose wisely, are experienced professionals...

Optimizing the Law Firm Library and Legal Research

By: Nina Cunningham, Unbiased Consulting Law firm operations have changed dramatically for many firms since the Coronavirus erupted in early 2020.  But legal research remains an important...

Helping Law Firms Assess Your Portfolios of Expenses and Save Money

Contract and Expense Assessment and Negotiation Services Saving money appears never to go out of style! Unbiased Consulting assesses and reviews your entire spend and expense portfolio, identifying...

Planning and Saving – Law Firm Real Estate and Office Space Cost Savings Opportunities

Whether you are looking to uncover your real estate cost savings potential or launch a program to move or modify your Office Space, Unbiased Consulting provides seasoned law firm professionals with...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Industry Leading Consulting Partner to Provide “Complete Print Solutions” Tailored for Law Firms

Unbiased Consulting Teams with Campbell & Partners Consulting to Drive Innovation in Law Firms...

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...

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...

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...

Law Firm Merger Boom May Be Coming Post-Lockdown

the industry will see an "acceleration" of mergers once the pandemic lets up...

Unbiased Consulting, LLC Helps Legal Organizations Improve Client Service Delivery, Enhance Business Operations and Leverage Technology Solutions

May 15, 2020 Unbiased Consulting, LLC Helps Legal Organizations Improve Client Service Delivery, Enhance Business Operations and Leverage Technology Solutions Unbiased Consulting’s independent...