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If a new car rolls off the assembly, all parts have been checked, double checked and checked again to ensure that they meet the exact specifications and tolerances adopted by the automotive engineers who designed. Carmakers know that in order to sell more cars, and remain profitable and competitive, they have to ensure their quality.
Now, measuring quality on your legal team is not quite so simple or technology-oriented, such as the measurement of data and tolerances on engines and transmissions. Because the lawyer is a service, not a product company. And the quality of the service companies is sometimes difficult to accurately measure.
The legal profession has always been its value, measured on billable hours rather than bottom-line results, and this also makes the quality of legal services is difficult to determine. But even if it is difficult to decide - more ambiguous and subjective - art as science - and yet, it can be done.
How do you assess the quality of your legal team? There is not much different than the automotive engineers who can sit down and plans for the design, how they want their cars to look for when they finally roll out of the assembly line.
They begin, in which the results or the results that you hope to achieve a certain legal obligation to clearly communicate the results and then to your legal team. They want good value for money, so that by defining your expectations and results that you let your team know what you think is important and valuable in a legal obligation. To define what a successful engagement would look like you. What results are hoping to achieve? What are your expectations regarding your legal team? Try as concrete as possible.
Rather than thinking in terms of win or lose, you can create a range of possible outcomes, from best to worst case. Once you have decided on the results you are looking for, are the commitment of tasks, and to try to limit the number of hours for each. You may want to assign areas of responsibility to task certain members of the legal team.
For larger projects, you will want to milestones, either as a percentage of hours billed or engagement tasks, where you can progress ongoing commitment. Schedule periodic reviews and reports, and build it into your contract commitment. Commitment to review progress, you must observe deviations from the original estimates and expectations and update your reports as necessary to ensure the changes.
Check all monthly billing for accuracy, and you can click on the help of an outside firm that specializes in the management of legal financial reporting can help you with all formalities.
You should also be based on good customer service, including:
§ Timely notification of a change commitment
§ Discussion of fees and scope of work prior to the engagement is awarded
§ Return calls and emails in a reasonable manner;
§ Accurate and timely monthly
§ Set of lawyers that came with your case
Follow these guidelines and you have not only a cost-effective, low maintenance and proper legal obligation, but you also have a high-powered legal team fires, which on all cylinders for the coming years.
Richard A. Hall is founder and president / CEO of LexTech, Inc., a legal information consulting company. Mr. Hall has a unique breadth of experience that enabled him to meld technology and sophisticated statistical analysis, a technology driven analytical model of the practice of law. As the process employed civilian lawyer, he was responsible for designing and implementing a LAN-based process database and fully automated document production for a medium-sized enterprises civil. He developed a task billing model based on extensive statistical analysis of hundreds of litigated civil matters. In 1994, Mr. Hall invented linguistic modeling software which automatically reads, applies budget codes, budget codes and analyzes legal bill content. He also served as California Director and lecturer for a nationwide bar review. Mr. Hall continues to practice law and perform pro bono services for several Northern California judicial districts.
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