In this second of three related posts, we consider whether clients’ increasing efforts to control outside legal spend force their outside counsel to “cut corners.” Are firms being forced to compromise service quality and integrity in order to meet client price points? Are Legal Project Management (LPM) and Legal Process Improvement (LPI), which are supposed… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: August 2014
Cutting Corners and the Question of Quality
Posted in Legal Project ManagementAs you might expect, proponents of Legal Project Management (LPM), Legal Process Improvement (LPI) and other approaches for driving greater efficiency and value into legal service delivery get a lot of blow-back. One of the more common gripes we hear is that “LPM encourages corner-cutting.” Two Ways to Complain In fact, in this form the… Continue Reading