Legal Operations KPIs, Second Edition

Legal Value, Spend, and Performance

Use the power of legal data to measure legal value, control spend, and improve performance. This expanded and updated Second Edition helps legal operations professionals, General Counsel, in-house legal teams, finance partners, and law firm leaders move beyond activity tracking and build metrics that support real decisions.

Language note: The Second Edition is currently available in English only. Spanish and Portuguese book editions are First Edition translations.

Legal Operations KPIs Book, Second Edition
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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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Book,Legal Operations,Legal Department,Implementation

This book (in English or Spanish) is a great reference resource that helps explain what a metric is, what an indicator is, the different types of indicators, and how to visualize data for legal management. The book also provides different examples of indicators related to spend, budget, management, diversity, data quality, legal compliance, and risk management; and as if that weren’t enough, it also includes an entire chapter on best practices with a diagnostic tool for legal data analytics. In any organization, having the right indicators is crucial to properly guide work, innovation, technology implementation, and process improvement. This book will save hours of research by presenting a wide variety of indicators and helping teams decide which ones are right for them. This book is a major contribution to Spanish-language literature on legal operations, informed by years of industry experience, and will help accelerate knowledge for legal management teams across Spanish-speaking countries.

Patricia Villa Berger
Patricia Villa Berger
Special Advisor
Kerma Partners
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In my curiosity to continue developing myself in #LegalOps topics, I found a book that is providing me with key concepts and methodical steps to optimize the management of Legal Operations, allowing Legal Departments to move from being a "cost center" to a value-generating center that delivers legal data to companies. From an innovative and practical perspective, it is reshaping the way I see legal management through data, metrics, and results, showing that lawyers can also be proactive and make data-driven decisions.

Arsel Salazar Miranda
Arsel Salazar Miranda
Mexico Legal Counsel
Dayforce
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Applause on this accomplishment! Legal Operations KPIs looks like a solid practice piece.

Yesenia Santiago Egner
Yesenia Santiago Egner
Legal Operations Executive Advisor
Otsuka Pharmaceutical
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More than necessary work for the Brazilian legal market… about WHAT, WHY… and HOW to implement KPIs that truly generate impact on the business (not just on legal operations themselves).

Celina Salomão
Celina Salomão
Cofounder
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Worth every penny! Incredible. "Legal Operations KPIs" is one of the best books I’ve ever read. Extremely comprehensive for the field, with impressive quality and detail in the explanation of each metric. Worth every penny!

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Rafael Melo
from Amazon
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Thank you for the contribution of knowledge Mori Kabiri.

Andres Lemus
Andres Lemus
Jefe Administrativo Legal
Banco GyT Continental
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This isn't a book that just sits on a shelf. Believe me - I enjoyed reading it so much, I took it with me on a holiday trip as my hobby read. (I will admit I am a data nerd but still.) What I appreciate most about this book is its practicality. Mori's approach is straightforward and focused on application, which makes the book accessible regardless of your expertise level. The inclusion of digital resources via QR codes and the detailed explanations of each KPI make this a tool I can use consistently to make informed decisions and improve our department's performance and reputation. I appreciate it not only for its depth in legal metrics but also for its broader application across other business functions like compliance and finance. I suspect this text is secretly useful for law firms and vendors as well. Understanding the intricacies of how corporate legal departments operate can be challenging. Legal Operations KPIs acts like a cheat code, offering insights into corporate needs and expectations, which can significantly enhance the services providers offer. As someone deeply involved in our legal department, Legal Operations KPIs has proven to be a highly useful guide. For anyone in a legal operations role looking to make a tangible impact, I'd recommend this book.

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Elizabeth Davis
from Amazon
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My 2024 reading list just got a little bit longer!

Duncan MacAskill
Duncan MacAskill
Account Executive
GC AI
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This is a great book to learn about all the different key performance indicators relevant to legal operations. Highly recommended.

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Terah
from Amazon
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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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