ACCELERATING THE EVOLUTION OF POSITIVE
BUSINESS CHANGE IN LEGAL SERVICES

By Richard Burcher, Global Vice President, Pricing & Profitability at Aderant Ask a managing partner whether the firm has good data for pricing and most will say yes. A decade or more of matters sit in the practice management system. Then ask someone to pull the last five matters that look like the one you’re pricing today. This is where the emails start. Someone opens a spreadsheet. A senior partner says what he remembers it cost, and everyone nods because nobody can prove o

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Brí McCrory speaks with Kylee Harris, Associate Director of Client Value at Proskauer Rose LLP, about how AI and evolving approaches to legal service delivery are reshaping legal value and pricing. Kylee shares why collaboration across pricing, innovation, and data teams is becoming increasingly important, how proactive communication helps balance speed with quality, and why firms should be more open to new possibilities in pricing and alternative fee arrangements. She also r

Recommendations from LVN Insider Editor, Bríana McCrory Law firms are seeing strong demand, rising rates, and continued profit growth, but the drivers of financial performance are becoming more complex. Alternative fee arrangements, changing leverage models, and AI-enabled efficiency are putting greater focus on how firms understand the true economics of delivering legal work. This month's articles point to a common challenge: stronger pricing does not automatically produce s