Bespoke over Brooks Brothers: Reinventing and Re-Fashioning
the Legal Staffing Model for Portfolio Companies
Not exact matches
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legal staffing support and expertise of a big firm environment, all on a variable cost
model.
Perhaps the
legal services
model based on delivery by partnerships, based on inefficiencies built into the billable hour and fueled by bloated
staffing and processing should die and be replaced by a new
model entirely.
The
model will no doubt need polishing, but the diamond may come to better represent the structure of law firm
staffing than the pyramid, suggests Gina Passarella, a reporter for The
Legal Intelligencer in Philadelphia, in her piece, Diamonds May Be a Law Firm's Best Friend in Economic Downturn.
Furthermore, new client - driven practice
models demand new flexibility in delivering
legal services, with case management, different kinds of
staffing, and document controls.
Identified areas for corporate
legal spend management, including alternative
staffing and sourcing
models
Once a law firm has reaped the benefits to its operating margin that contract
staffing can provide, it may prove hard to return to a traditionally staffed leverage
model, especially once technology acts to further enhance the cost efficiencies inherent in the
legal contracting market.
During tomorrow's discussion on Twitter, we plan to discuss a number of topics, including the future of the law firm
model, future
staffing and compensation trends, the future of the billable hour, how social media will evolve within the
legal profession, and many others.
Thompson Hine understands that clients are seeking significant changes in the way
legal services are provided and managed, and has changed its service delivery
model, adding personnel, software, infrastructure and training in areas including
legal project management, value - based pricing, flexible
staffing and process efficiency through its SmartPaTH initiative.
Increasingly, clients are turning to alternative
legal services providers and alternative
staffing models to augment their own in - house
legal teams and expect their law firms to do the same.
For example, if you find that your answers suggest you dislike the practice of providing direct
legal services to clients, consider the variety of new
model business focused on providing fill - in or freelance work, or high - end
legal staffing companies.
We are also collecting variables through other sources, to measure the impact of law firm initiatives (e.g.,
legal project management) and attributes (e.g.,
staffing models and leverage).
Under these circumstances, it would seem that more firms would be actively embracing the need to change their basic operating
models — to design and implement new approaches to
staffing and
legal work processes, to explore new opportunities for collaboration with other service providers, and to adopt and market innovative strategies for the pricing of their services.
The
staffing industry, in the
legal sector and elsewhere, is in a constant state of evolution, where any semblance of a traditional
model of recruitment now seems shortlived at best.
Based on defined objectives, these tools provide insight across all matters so
legal operations professionals can easily track the progress of cases, counsel and
legal bills in real time, evaluate pricing
models, technology options and
staffing decisions, reuse data for efficiencies, and use data to inform any number of strategic decisions.
The data — some $ 18 billion in
legal invoices — suggests the largest law firms have modified
staffing models and reassigned IP litigation work to more junior partners in an effort at cost control.