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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As you’re growing your career in legal ops, it really is a marathon, not a sprint. Learn as much as you can as you go along and be patient about it. Learn what you want to learn, learn as you need to learn. There are amazing resources like ‘Legal Operations KPIs’ that can help guide you along the way.

Janine Dixon
Janine Dixon
Manager of Legal Ops
Meta
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The content is impeccably organized and holds value for those across any legal operations role.

Mandy Roberts
Mandy Roberts
Director
Paramount+
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Love your book!

Joy Holley
Joy Holley
Director of Legal Operations
Ameren
Book,Law Firm

Being excellent and client-focused is no longer enough. Success depends equally on becoming data-centric—extracting data and knowledge from partners' heads into firm-wide systems. Structured, complete data is the launchpad for utilising the potential of Gen-AI, and KPIs are the levers that shape the data-centric culture law firms should want to build.

Aku Sorainen
Aku Sorainen
Senior Partner
Sorainen
Book,Legal Operations,Implementation

Legal Operations KPIs is terrific! What sets it apart from the others is the comprehensive description of each metric, as well as data sources and alternatives. I refer to it all the time.

Alisa De Dominicis
Alisa De Dominicis
Global Sr. Director Legal Operations
Rocket Software
Book,Law Firm,Implementation

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
Book,Legal Operations,Implementation

The author demonstrates such a deep understanding of the subject matter and understand KPI's so fundamentally that his work here can easily be adopted and adapted outside legal operations. I highly recommend reading this well written book to get insight as to what good KPI's are, how the affect decision making and how to fine tune them to get a lot of performance improvement, by making decisions that fully incorporate KPI's as presented here. Anyone dealing with KPI might want to have a copy of this book on their desk. This is a book which is written incredibly complete but also accessible to those with less of a background who are willing to put in an effort and understand the book.' Great job

Saleh Aliyari
Saleh Aliyari
Data Scientist
Book,Law Firm

The timing is perfect, especially with all the changes in the industry. I'm already thinking of a few lawyer friends I'm going to recommend Law Firm KPIs to. Fantastic work!

Alex Agahi
Alex Agahi
CEO- Financial Adviser
Law Firm,Book

I just read the recent article “Law Firm KPIs: The Professional’s Handbook for Pricing, Productivity, Profitability,” and it feels like a must-read for any firm serious about growth.

Sarah Tetlow
Sarah Tetlow
CEO and Founder
Book,Legal Operations

Part V - Cross Functional Collaboration - Digging into this section of Mori Kabiri's Legal Operations KPIs is so inspiring . . . We are always “Better Together” Bridging the gap between Legal Departments and other Business Units.

Michelle Kovitch
Michelle Kovitch
Chief Strategy Officer
S2Data

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