October-December 2026

In most law firms around the world—across all sizes and practice specialties—more productive and cost-effective internal operations, rather than higher or more clever pricing, offer the best opportunity to improve and sustain profitability.

This issue of Worldnotes: Sustainable Profitability in Law Firm Operations examines three opportunities: continuous process improvement, implementing artificial intelligence, and the emerging concept of outsourcing most, if not all, of a law firm’s business management and administration to a management services organization (MSO).