Document Type
Article
Abstract
Our essay has five parts: (i) a discussion of how external forces are reshaping the economics of today’s legal industry; (ii) examples of the types of decisions that tend to drive up the cost of bills in contravention of ethical duties; (iii) a discussion of possible reasons for those decisions (including a short discussion of social science explanations); (iv) a description of how attorneys can use data analytics tools to self-govern how they staff, deliver and bill for their legal services; and (v) recommendations for how both clients and law firms can benefit from proactively managing, on the front end, of legal costs.
First Page
171
Last Page
186
Recommended Citation
Nancy B. Rapoport and Joseph R. Tiano Jr.,
Leveraging Legal Analytics and Spend Data as a Law Firm Self-Governance Tool,
13 J. Bus. Entrepreneurship & L.
171
(2020)
Available at: https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/jbel/vol13/iss1/6
