The Legal Operations KPIs Book

Turn legal operations into a strategic asset. Legal Operations KPIs helps legal teams use data, metrics, and reporting to drive performance, efficiency, and smarter business decisions.

Legal Operations KPIs Book
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The book addresses the challenge of turning legal work into a more measurable, strategic part of the business through the use of data analytics. With a clear focus on metrics and KPIs, legal professionals with the tools to not only interpret data but also understand the decisions it supports. This is a comprehensive resource for those looking to improve performance, offering detailed metrics, reporting strategies, best practices, and practical insights that can be applied across the legal profession.

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In a rapidly evolving legal market, Law Firm KPIs by Mori Kabiri is the book many of us in legal finance and analytics have been waiting for. As Director of FP&A, I routinely face the challenge of translating mountains of firm data into insight, strategy, and action. Kabiri’s book provides not only a taxonomy of over 80 clearly defined KPIs but a much-needed framework for turning law firm data into a shared language of performance and value. The book’s value lies in three core strengths: 1. Clarity and Practicality: Each KPI is laid out with definition, calculation, data sources, pitfalls, trend insights, and improvement strategies. Whether you're assessing realization, partner profitability, or AI adoption rates, the format allows for immediate application without wading through unnecessary academic detail. 2. Audience-Aware Structure: Kabiri understands the varied roles within a law firm—from managing partners to HR and legal ops—and aligns each metric to its relevant stakeholders. This makes it easier to drive cross-functional alignment. 3. Forward-Thinking with an Operational Backbone: Particularly impressive is the inclusion of metrics around Alternative Fee Arrangements (AFAs), AI impact, knowledge reuse, and cost-to-serve measures like Operating Cost per Billable Hour (OCPBH).

Alina Mendoza
Alina Mendoza
Director of Management Reporting and Analytics
Holland & Knight
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Mori Kabiri what’s gonna be on the final?

Scott B. Seymann
Scott B. Seymann
Compliance Attorney
LegalFi
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I also have a copy of this book on my home desk waiting for the holidays to be done, so I can dig in.

Kathleen Gilbert
Kathleen Gilbert
Director of Legal Operations
Inmar Intelligence
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Thanks for putting together such a comprehensive book. I can't wait to dive in.

Ted Marousek
Ted Marousek
Regional Vice President of Sales
Exterro
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Such impressive drive and dedication to helping make the ecosystem the best. 👏 👏 👏

Sheila Dusseau
Sheila Dusseau
Head of Global CLO and Operations
Brightflag
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A good complement to your initial book.

Laurie David-Henric
Laurie David-Henric
Global Head of Operations | Legal, Compliance, IP
Argenx
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To anyone looking to elevate their legal function, this is a book you shouldn’t miss! It’s available in both English and Spanish.

Itzú Martínez
Itzú Martínez
Legal Director
Sierra Metals
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As somebody who has been tasked with heading up a legal operation department, this book has been very helpful and detailed to give me a better idea of what to look and aim for in efficiently running the law department. I recommend it for anyone who is beginning to create a Legal Operations department or is already involved but looking to further their progress.

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Amanda Myers
from Amazon
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This looks awesome! I will certainly be buying this!

Marlowe Doman
Marlowe Doman
Director of Legal Operations
SEI
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I believe that the guidance in this legal operations book is a very good example and provides a huge amount of material. You need to review it calmly and see how to get the best out of it, but it brings excellent tips that we, as lawyers, don't naturally have. We're not used to working with charts or being very organized with information, and I have no doubt this is something we must implement and learn little by little.

Sergio Rodriguez
Sergio Rodriguez
Corporate Legal Manager

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