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White Paper: Modernizing Associate Work Allocation in Law Firms

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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 work allocation. Traditional models, where partners assign tasks directly based on personal discretion, are no longer sufficient to meet the demands of a modern legal workforce. This approach […]

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Navigating Staffing Challenges in Law Firms: Embracing Legal Assistant Teaming

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

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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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New Business/New Client Intake and Conflicts Profitability Improvement Services

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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 openings, better align work to practice and/or firm goals, and improve profitability.

The truth is that none of this occurs with the implementation of new software, rather, it is the policies, ethical, business and financial risk reviews, conflicts clearance, engagement and waiver letter processing, matter opening and related processes, the resourcing and skilling of the business intake, conflicts and lateral team members and organizational model, that makes the difference. The technology and automation is there to support the policies and processes performed by the team members.

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

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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 specializes in driving efficiency and productivity into legal market firms and organizations – over 700 clients to date –  I and my team carry unique perspectives. To set

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Death of the Hourly Rate and The Critical Need for Matter Planning
February 19, 2025

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. It’s finally time to shift the hourly rate paradigm and institute process improvements in support of better matter oversight and “win-win” billing relationships. Come learn how.

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