It’s difficult to get a room full of lawyers to agree on anything. It’s remarkable, then, that in a recent study, 94 percent of leaders from nearly 400 different law firms agreed on one premise — that law firms’ current focus on efficiency will be a permanent feature of law firm life going forward.
The agreement on that point among the managing partners and law firm chairs surveyed in the latest Altman Weil “Law Firms in Transition” report suggests that they have overwhelmingly bought into — or at least accepted — the need to make themselves more efficient. The data, however, tells a more nuanced story.
