Law Firms Look at Process Management

What do lawyers and general contractors have in common? Nothing yet.

But the idea that the legal profession could look to the processes used by general contractors in completing a job was one raised at an Association of Corporate Counsel Value Challenge meeting in Philadelphia this summer.

Project and process management — in essence the antithesis of the billable-hour model — is a concept being eyed by law firms as they try to ensure they can deliver the efficiency required to make good on their alternative fee arrangements.

via Legal Technology – Law Firms Look at Process Management .