LPM, pricing and related functions in law firms – a thought experiment
Graeme Johnston / 4 December 2025 Originally published on LinkedIn Many large and even medium law firms have created specialist roles in legal project management, pricing, process improvement and data. I’ve been thinking about how I would ideally organise this topic if leading such a firm, assuming that it does mainly complex, not-easily-predictable, fairly large […]
A possible grand bargain between law firms and corporate clients – Part 2
Part 2: The need for a reset Elizabeth (Libbie) Evans and Graeme Johnston /3 December 2025 Originally published on LinkedIn This is the second part of an article about managing spend on large complex business law matters. In the first part, we introduced the current landscape. We noted that current approaches […]
A possible grand bargain between law firms and corporate clients
Part 1: The existing landscape Elizabeth (Libbie) Evans and Graeme Johnston / 12 November 2025 Originally published on LinkedIn In recent months, the two of us have been discussing the entrenched problems of Continuing pressures on corporate legal departments to reduce legal spend and improve its predictability, but also on law firm partners to maintain or increase […]