by admin | Mar 8, 2018 | Legal Business Models
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...
by admin | Feb 1, 2018 | Legal Business Models
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...
by admin | May 31, 2017 | Legal Business Models
I know things have been quiet on this site for awhile, and I have a simple explanation—I took a job. And not just any job: in early 2016 I was asked to head up the legal project management and process improvement function for an AmLaw 150 law firm. For a guy who bills...
by admin | Apr 8, 2016 | Agile Tools & Methods, Improve Your Strategy, Legal Business Models
A bit of a mea culpa here: This is a post I started working on months ago and then never published because I didn’t think I’d gotten things quite right. As longtime readers will recognize, this is fundamentally inconsistent with the Lean Startup principles...
by admin | May 15, 2015 | Legal Business Models
As you can tell from my last post, I’m a big fan of visual thinking and visual management tools. I personally use the Lean Canvas and the Business Model Canvas for both myself and my clients, but I’ve often thought that the idea of a canvas would work well...
by admin | Apr 20, 2015 | Legal Business Models
I just left the Washington State Bar’s “Future of the Practice” meeting and there was some great discussion about ways to increase access to legal services. If you aren’t familiar with some of the steps that the Washington bar is taking,...
