Improve operations, demand generation, revenue collection, and risk control within your legal office.
PLA helps law firms and corporate legal departments improve operations by enhancing operational strategy, organization, processes and technology. We understand that a lawyer's productivity is closely tied to the ability to manage people and information. That's why all of our Legal Solutions focus on improving operations - so that you can deliver faster, cheaper (where appropriate), better and with more value. Our Legal Solutions also focus on mitigating risk - to help your clients and internal/external stakeholders.
As the largest independent business and technology consultancy serving the legal industry, PLA has worked with more than 300 law firms and corporate legal departments over the past few years. Our experienced team (our team averages more than 17 years of work experience in law firms, corporations and consultancies) combined with our ability to provide highly tailored services allows us to provide focused operations and technology solution. Our clients tell us repeatedly that we have the experience and execution skills to consistently deliver.
Services:
- Enterprise Content and Document Management: Map, migrate and manage important documents and content through a central repository for maximized access and control from creation to destruction.
- Knowledge Management: Harness greater value from institutional knowledge and intellectual property across the entire enterprise for improved performance
- New Business Intake and Conflicts/Lateral Hires: Reduce ethical and business conflict risks, improve new business focus to take on the right types of business that aligns with your firm's business plans and realize optimal revenue.
- Litigation Services: Improve electronic data discovery through our national data collection and forensics services; accelerate design, setup, and training related to the industry standard review tools; and develop highly efficient and profitable litigation support department operations with best-in-class strategies, processes, organization and technology.
- Intellectual Property (IP) Management: PLA's Intellectual Property Management (IPM) Service Line helps law firms and corporate patent houses to manage, improve and resolve issues pertaining to the business of IP. We provide industry thought leadership in IP Management and prosecution.
- Ethical Walls Implementation: Planning and deploying automated Ethical Walls solutions, including seamless integration with leading applications.
- Data Integration: Designing and implementing automated connections between key applications, which improve data integrity and eliminate manual work-arounds.
- Portal Implementation: Consolidate, centralize and manage content for improved internal and external communication and collaboration.
- Legal Desktop: PLA will develop the desktop specifically for your legal environment with the core applications integrated together through both in house and vendor customizations.
- Records Management: Set strategies, create retention schedules, assess organizational impacts, and implement technologies to control your organization's data base.
For Law Firms:
- Improve law firm demand generation and revenues as well as matter and department profit margins.
- Improve law firm and departmental operational costs and efficiencies.
- Improve service and value.
- Increase speed.
- Reduce the law firm risk profile.
- Improve corporate legal department operations and throughout.
- Lower costs through operations improvement.
- Improve service and value.
- Increase speed.
- Reduce the corporate risk profile.
If you are interested in learning more about PLA's Legal Solutions, please email Doug Klatt or call 312-441-1572.
Partners:Microsoft, IntApp, Interwoven, CT Summation, MetaStorm
