Fish & Richardson’s pricing group and legal project management team have allowed the firm to do 31% of its work in connection with alternative fee arrangements, including innovative pricing plans, based on the number of patents and claims asserted in litigation. The Fish legal ops team is being recognized as the Most Innovative Operations Team at a law firm as part of California Leaders in Tech Law and Innovation Awards. The Recorder recently caught up with Carl Manning, the global director of litigation practice systems at Fish, to ask about the operations team’s mission at Fish.

The Recorder: How would you characterize the mission of the legal operations team within Fish & Richardson?