Validatum® works solely with the ‘sell’ side of legal services. Over the last few years, we have had the opportunity to work with a wide range of law firms and barrister’s chambers with turnovers of £10 million ($US15m) to £1.26b ($US1.9b). Our clients are regional, national, international, boutique, full-service, and in multiple jurisdictions including the United Kingdom, Europe, North America, Asia, Africa and Australasia. This diversity provides us with deep insight into current legal services pricing best practice. Here are just a few of the clients with whom we have worked...
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Where’s the legal services pricing puck heading?
Where’s the legal services pricing puck heading? is a compelling interview with Richard Burcher, the leading authority on pricing legal services and contributor to the Dialogue on Remaking Law Firms.
Validatum Pricing Espresso® - (4th November 2019)
With Validatum Pricing Espresso® we aim to bring you your regular pricing 'shot' - the best, most interesting, thought provoking and informative material we can find globally which will be of interest, relevance and help to you in your legal services pricing challenges. [Note: we don't always agree with the content of others that we post but the philosophy of Validatum Pricing Espresso® is shared perspectives, not a personal 'soap-box']
Billable Hours Targets & Bonuses: A Greater Misalignment of Interests is Difficult to Conceive
We have written and lectured extensively on previous occasions about law firms misaligned meritocracy structures and the capacity for that misalignment to encourage pricing behaviour that is sub-optimal for both the client and the firm. So, kudos to someone of the standing of Annette Kimmitt, the CEO of Minter Ellison, Australia’s largest law firm, who recently called out the billable hour as a poor measure of "client impact" as a result of which the firm proposes to revisit the way it acts as a "gateway" to bonus payments. (Australian Financial Review).
