HardingLowe Re-Engineers New Business Intake for AmLaw 30 Firm
HardingLowe has been engaged by an AmLaw 30 Washington, DC-based firm to re-engineer its New Business Intake function. We will be using our Law Firm Capability Blueprint to assess all aspects of this critical capability – strategy, policy, process, technology, and organization. Like many firms, our client has grown in size and geographic reach, but […]
Michael Lowe to Teach PMI Seminar on Transformational Change
HardingLowe President Michael Lowe will be teaching a course at the Program Management Institute’s Mega Seminars World 2013. The seminar is taking place on June 24 and 25, in Orlando, Florida. Entitled “Take the Lead on Transformational Change,” the seminar will focus on preparing Project Management Professionals to take on their organizations’ most mission-critical change projects. […]
Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Law Firm Education
Do you know what a MOOC is? If not, you probably will soon, as they are quickly gaining popularity in the world of education. A MOOC is a massive open online course, in which universities are putting content online for anyone with an Internet connection to attend for free. One of the early pioneers of […]
HardingLowe Delivers Data Center Migration for AmLaw 20 Firm
In December 2012, HardingLowe completed a successful Data Center Migration project for an AmLaw 20 firm. As part of the project, the firm managed data for over 1,000 hardware assets and over 300 applications, including 200 databases. The planned moves were executed between the months of August – October 2012. The data center migration, once […]
Building Law Firm Capabilities
Introduction The Chief Knowledge Officer at a top firm recently asked me why I thought the same topics come up every year at legal conferences and in legal publications – alternative fee arrangements (AFAs), legal project management, legal process outsourcing, etc. His implication was that firms must not be successfully adopting these new concepts on […]
Implementing Learning Management Systems at Law Firms
Introduction Learning Management Systems (LMS), long in use at companies and other professional services firms, are increasingly being implemented at law firms. An LMS provides an online “one-stop shop” for all firm training, regardless of audience (attorney, paralegal, staff), training vehicle (classroom, webcast, eLearning), or content (legal skills, sexual harassment, technology). Their belated adoption can […]
Transforming Law Firms Part 2 – Hildebrandt Institute
This is Part II of a two-part series by Mike Lowe, a strategy and management consultant whose firm HardingLowe works with law firms to improve their efficiency and profitability. You can read Part I, on AFAs and other cost and pricing issues, here. As a twelve-year veteran of the management consulting firm Accenture, I experienced the successful transformation […]
Transforming Law Firms
This is Part I of a two-part series by Mike Lowe, a strategy and management consultant whose firm HardingLowe works with law firms to improve their efficiency and profitability. By now, it is widely understood that the marketplace for legal services is undergoing a major transformation. Clients are more cost-conscious and are demanding an unprecedented level of […]
HardingLowe Engages with Fenwick & West to Implement Firm-Wide Learning Management Capability (March 2012)
HardingLowe has initiated a project with Silicon Valley-based Fenwick & West to transform their learning management capability. Fenwick & West is a national law firm that provides comprehensive legal services to technology and life sciences client. The Learning Management project will allow Fenwick & West to manage and deliver its attorney and staff training through […]
HardingLowe Delivers Confidential Matters Capability to AMLaw 20 Firm
HardingLowe has successfully partnered with a Washington, DC-based AmLaw 20 Firm to deliver a new Confidential Matters capability. This capability allows Partners to designate a matter as confidential, which then restricts access to the matter’s information and documents. HardingLowe managed a cross-functional client team that included New Business, Information Services, Knowledge Management, and Practice Management. […]
