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Sustainable Profitability in Law Firm Operations
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).
Sustainable Profitability in Law Firm Operations
July-September 2026
Any business plan—even a flawed one—usually is better than none at all. This issue of Worldnotes offers practical suggestions about how to improve the quality and reliability of your business planning process, not only at the firm-wide level, but also in your practice groups and for individual partners.
None of our suggestions requires significant additional expenditures of time, resources, or intellectual energy, and the return on those small additional investments can be immense.
