Increasingly, law firms and lawyers are compared, evaluated, judged, categorised, ranked and balanced. The Anglo-Saxon culture, generally more fond of rankings and statistics, has been dealing with the phenomenon for quite a while already, but now it is also hitting the rest of Europe at full strength. Metrics, numbers, benchmarks, ratios, targets… will become increasingly important in the management of law firms. Most lawyers are not comfortable with numbers but, unfortunately for them, this trend will not blow over. European law firms better get to terms with it. Click here to read the full article, published in the June issue of Toplegal International.
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