[netneanderthal]

The strain on lawyers to reduce billing (law firm) and / or spend (corporate legal departments) are pushing them to get out of their habit of seemingly reckless billing / spending and into a mode where they are looking to add more bang for the buck to their clients.

There are a couple of interesting articles on this... a dated blog piece written by Larry Modine as early as in 2004, here:

http://pm.typepad.com/professional_m...gma_at_pr.html

...and articles on the use of Six Sigma in litigation / discovery at an American Bar Association (ABA) conference. The ABA articles are available on a subscription basis only (I only saw a printed copy of them), but an interesting dissection by Paul C. Easton, available here:

http://legalprojectmanagement.info/2...partments.html

I thought this would be an interesting share and a display of how Six Sigma is penetrating areas not reached thus far and would love to hear your views!

[netneanderthal]

And for those interested in more on this issue, the attached PDFs should shed some more light on how Six Sigma is slowly penetrating the legal world.

A surprising thing is to see how "old" these articles are (the KPMG one is from 2006) but at least baby steps are being made in "non data" bastions...

[sparky]

Many thanks for sharing, they are interesting.

However, I do have to ask if you have permission to publicly post these items.

[netneanderthal]

Yep, got the rights to distribute...

[sparky]

Originally Posted by netneanderthal

Yep, got the rights to distribute...

Thanks for that. It really is appreciated.