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The Future of Lawyer Development in the Age of Generative AI: Apprenticeship, Mentorship, and Hybrid Models

The legal profession, long steeped in tradition, is undergoing a seismic shift with the integration of generative AI tools. These technologies promise to reshape how lawyers approach research, drafting, and even client interaction.

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Death of the Hourly Rate and The Critical Need for Matter Planning

Applying knowledge gained from industry experts, this webinar presentation will show you how to effectively plan and price, allowing you to increase resource productivity while reducing legal spend. It’s finally time to shift the hourly rate paradigm and institute process improvements in support of better matter oversight and “win-win” billing relationships. Come learn how.

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Deep Dive into Law Firm Operations: Strategies for Efficiency, Productivity, and Profitability in 2025

Dan Safran, founder of Unbiased Consulting and a recognized thought leader in law firm financial and operational strategy, joined Carlyse Evans, former Baker McKenzie Global Head of Administrative Operations, and Michele Blay, Senior Advisor, to uncover the transformative strategies law firms are leveraging to achieve efficiency, productivity, and profitability in 2025.

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Unbiased Thinking: A Blueprint for Your Law Firm Billing & Collections Transformation

we find that law firms generally experience a similar set of common challenges and costs tied to inefficient billing and collections practices. These can be quite significant — at some firms, we have seen profitability drag exceeding 6%.
This is a cost no firm can afford; and to that end, the following offers a blueprint for how Unbiased Consulting advises clients when they wish to transform billing and collections.

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“What Tech-Savvy General Counsel Know That You Don’t: From Digital Naïve to Digital Native” – A Law Department Guide to Modern Technology

By Scott Rosenberg – Unbiased Consulting For global general counsel, the proper administration and development of IT make up an area of management oversight which needs both focus and understanding. Technology continues to gain importance for legal departments as a primary instrument for ensuring collaboration, sharing knowledge, achieving efficiency, controlling cost, mitigating risk, measuring performance

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Will BigLaw Regret Its Hiring Spree As The Economy Softens?

See Aebra Coe’s timely Law360 article on “Will BigLaw Regret Its Hiring Spree As The Economy Softens?” Law360 (June 20 2022 9:02 PM EDT) Dan Safran, Unbiased Consulting President/CEO, said “My concern is that what we’ve done over the last two to three years is we have dramatically increased the cost of delivering legal service.” Safran

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