Legal Operations - Transformation of the Legal Market

All it takes is an impulse - and a considerable amount of experience.

Legal Operations since 2017 - Operations since 1995

Years of experience in more mature professional services industries

Years of experience in the legal market

600

Training courses and seminars
Project and process management

200

Projects in the areas of change management, IT, processes, marketing, and sales

lapco.legal

The lapco platform structures legal matters as project structure plans, in which every work package carries a clearly defined scope with exclusions and its own pricing model. Legal departments run RFPs on this basis and steer their budget across the full matter lifecycle with directly comparable bids. Law firms quote fixed fees with confidence because scope and exclusions are locked in before bid submission. The connecting layer is a collaborative project management platform. Optimizes legal spend. Protects margin. For in-house. For law firms. Independent.

Scope it. Price it. Control it. lapco.

More details here: lapco.legal

Legal Transformation Wheel

The use of AI is fundamentally and forever changing the way services are provided in the legal market.

New technology requires new Skills. New skills create new Roles. New roles are changing how we collaborate (Processes). Services change, new ones emerge. Pricing models are being adjusted. The organizational model is changing (Organization). Management and Leadership are facing new challenges. Strategy needs to be rethought. Culture either develops further or slows everything down.

Each of these areas of action deserves its own careful consideration. Because changes in one area trigger changes in others and lead to Cascade effects, Feedback loops and mutual dependencies.

No challenge in the legal market is fundamentally new. What has been lacking until now is simply the impetus to address these challenges systematically. Other industries and functions have been dealing with change, new roles and digitalisation for decades.

Just because we prefix every discipline with 'Legal' (Legal Operations, Legal Design, Legal Project Managemen) doesn't mean we have to reinvent the wheel. The necessary methods and tools already exist. We just need to familiarise ourselves with them and put them into practice.

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Artificial intelligence (AI), standardization and efficient process and project management methods will sustainably and profoundly change the way services are provided in the legal market.

The focus will be less on, WHO provides legal services, but HOW these services are provided. Pricing models are shifting from "input-based" to "output-based": fixed prices.

Methods and tools from the IT and the general business administration are becoming indispensable in legal departments and law firms. Legal operations are evolving into operations for the legal market. We utilize methods and expertise that have been established in other industries and departments for decades.

As a business economist with over 30 years of experience in professional services firms, I offer these skills, acquired in more mature industries (15 years of experience in Operations/IT/Projects/Processes/Consulting) and in the legal industry (10 years at a large international law firm, 7 years freelance in Legal Operations).

As a program partner, I have been responsible for the agenda of the JUVE Legal Operations Conference.

A sparring partner for decision-makers,

providing implementation-oriented support for those who get things done.