A review of the literature on law firm business models, which originally formed part of an MBA thesis on "Making law firms a great place to work: a case study on the role of a firm’s business model in developing a successful workplace culture".
Author: Michael Milnes
Commercial lawyer. Business adviser. MBA. Agile project manager. Legal tech, design, productivity and innovation.
Law Firm Workplace Culture: an MBA Literature Review
A review of the literature on law firm workplace culture. This originally formed part of an MBA thesis on "Making law firms a great place to work: a case study on the role of a firm’s business model in developing a successful workplace culture".
Law Firm Business Models and Workplace Culture: an Introduction
My MBA research set out to investigate how different elements of a law firm’s business model can play a role in developing a successful organizational culture, using a case study approach. This post provides an introduction to this research.
Learning from disaster – how a “pre-mortem” could save your next supply chain project
According to research by PMI - only 57% of projects are finished in budget and 52% finished on time. 15% of projects are deemed as a total failure - that is a project disaster. The risk of project disaster goes up for projects executed over a long timeframe or with higher-than-average complexity. Supply chain projects …
How legal procurement is helping in-house legal teams get better results
In-house legal departments are under constant pressure to take on more work, but usually have little flexibility to add more lawyers to the team. It is more important than ever for teams to get the best possible value from their external relationships. This is driving a trend towards in-house teams working with procurement professionals to improve how they purchase legal services...
Blockchain Technology in Australia: An Update for Lawyers
Blockchain, the emerging peer-to-peer distributed ledger technology, has continued to make recent headlines in the business and legal media. Blockchain underpins a new generation of disruptive transaction technologies, by promising trust for users and eliminating the need for intermediaries. Blockchain can also combine with “smart contracts”, or ways of embedding contract terms and functions in our digital or physical world.
Legal Tech and the ‘Luddite Fallacy’
Hardly a day goes by without the business and legal media reporting different versions of a story with the same theme: new technologies and automation are on the cusp of replacing a whole range of professional services, including within the legal sector. The inevitable result, so the story goes, will be less need for lawyers. …
Service Level Agreements: a Total Quality Management perspective
Service Level Agreements (SLA) play a useful role in advancing quality improvements across linkages with other organisations. This essay examines the use of SLAs in the supply chain from a Total Quality Management perspective.
Michael Milnes 