Being Lean > Doing Lean

It’s been awhile since I made a blog post out of a Twitter thread, but this seemed like as good a topic as any. (Oddly enough, the last one also had to do with the concept of waste). I recently re-published an old post on “The Seven Wastes of...

A SMART Approach to Goal-Setting

Before I dig too far into the importance of setting goals, and setting them the right way, let’s get this out of the way: The Goal of any business system, process, or workflow is to derive Profit for the business by delivering Value to the customer. This is undeniably...

Someone Just Beat Me To My Book Idea

Greetings from ABA Techshow 2018, where today I learned that Larry Port and Dave Maxfield have just published the book that I’ve been thinking about writing for years. It’s title: The Lean Law Firm. Honestly, the similarities between what they’ve produced and...

Case Study: Optimizing a Small Family Law Practice

A quick tangent from my Domains of Activity series, I’m putting together some case studies of firms I’ve worked with and the improvements they’ve made. Here’s the first one: Case Study: Optimizing a Small Family Law Practice The Situation A...

MGST Part 2: Articulating your Mission.

In Part 1 of this series I laid out the four domains of activity for your law practice (any human enterprise really). If you haven’t already, you might want to read it first. The Mission domain, sometimes expanded to Mission, Vision, and Values, should be the North...