Students will be exposed to basic data collection techniques in legal settings,
simple metrics useful in measuring legal operations, methods to manage discrete projects and portfolios of matters, staffing opportunities, process mapping, process improvement techniques, client engagement, measuring value exchanges, and simple legal service delivery technologies.
While a number of
simple measures of valuation have also been
useful over the years, even
metrics such as price - to - peak earnings have been skewed by the unusual profit margins we observed at the 2007 peak, which were about 50 % above the historical norm - reflecting the combination of booming and highly leveraged financial sector profits as well as wide margins in cyclical and commodity - oriented industries.