Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Law Firms

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Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Law Firms

Establishing a set of meaningful Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) is a powerful way to assess your firm’s current position as well as strengths and weak spots. Metrics should encompass every area of the business - from marketing to production and profitability. Every person should have at least one number they are accountable for - from the receptionist all the way to the owner.

How a Fractional COO Can Help

Analyze the most important aspects of the business.

Create a roadmap of the business units of the firm and how to measure their success.

Develop a set of KPIs that prompt smart questions and provides answers.

When creating a set of KPIs, the goal is to measure data that prompts questions, as well as answers questions. For example, why is this data showing up like this? What does it mean? Or, it answers a question that you’ve anecdotally noticed in the business, and brings context to the situation, or an issue at hand.

Establish a process to collect data consistently and display it effectively.

Analyze the systems available and necessary to extract the data, and assemble the people and processes to ensure metrics are analyzed regularly and action is taken based on the results.

Common Law Firm Questions

  • KPIs give you the visibility you need to understand your firm’s positioning - what is going well and what can be improved. Having established KPIs is pivotal to the success of your vision so that you can track progress.

  • There are a ton of them! But some of my favorites are: utilization (by hours and $), expense to revenue ratio, marketing ROI, billing effective rates, healthy A/Rs / monthly expenses, and profit margin.

  • As a fractional COO with many years in the law firm space, I have lots of anecdotal data as well as current market data on what the metric benchmarks should be. One of the benefits in working with ING Collaborations is keeping the pulse on current trends.

  • You can get started by scheduling a free consultation with us. We’ll discuss your firm’s unique needs, challenges, and goals to determine how our fractional COO services can best support your law firm’s growth and success.

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