14 episodes

The Agile Attorney podcast teaches legal professionals how to streamline their legal workflows using the principles, practices, and tools of the Kanban Method.

Join Accredited Kanban Trainer and award-winning legal operations professional John E. Grant as he shares the keys to implementing effective strategies, practices, and technologies to drive true efficiency in your legal processes.

For more information on how John can help you develop an agile mindset and bust through your legal delivery bottlenecks, visit https://agileattorney.com.

This is the show for you if you find yourself asking questions like:

-How can I make my law practice more efficient?
-What is the best way to implement legal project management in my legal workflow?
-How can I best leverage technology to improve my legal workflows?
-What is the best way to transition my practice to flat fees or other alternative billing structures?
-How can I get my legal team to perform better?
-How can I better build productized legal services?
-What is the best way to increase law firm revenue without adding headcount?

The Agile Attorney Podcast John E. Grant

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    • 5.0 • 6 Ratings

The Agile Attorney podcast teaches legal professionals how to streamline their legal workflows using the principles, practices, and tools of the Kanban Method.

Join Accredited Kanban Trainer and award-winning legal operations professional John E. Grant as he shares the keys to implementing effective strategies, practices, and technologies to drive true efficiency in your legal processes.

For more information on how John can help you develop an agile mindset and bust through your legal delivery bottlenecks, visit https://agileattorney.com.

This is the show for you if you find yourself asking questions like:

-How can I make my law practice more efficient?
-What is the best way to implement legal project management in my legal workflow?
-How can I best leverage technology to improve my legal workflows?
-What is the best way to transition my practice to flat fees or other alternative billing structures?
-How can I get my legal team to perform better?
-How can I better build productized legal services?
-What is the best way to increase law firm revenue without adding headcount?

    008. Building the Lean Law Firm with Dave Maxfield

    008. Building the Lean Law Firm with Dave Maxfield

    Dave Maxfield, co-author of The Lean Law Firm, joins me today to provide an interesting look into how lawyers can adopt techniques from the Lean methodology to empower and improve their law practices.

    Tune in this week to discover how to take lean production systems of global production lines and use them to improve your law practice. We’re discussing the potential efficiency pitfalls of hourly billing, Dave’s simple formula for making changes that increase revenue, and we’re analyzing the things that prevent law firms from being as efficient and profitable as they could be.
     
    For full show notes, transcript, and more information, visit: https://www.agileattorney.com/8

    • 49 min
    007. Don’t Let Efficiency Destroy Customer Value

    007. Don’t Let Efficiency Destroy Customer Value

    Streamlining processes in your law practice makes sense. It saves you and your team precious time and energy and keeps the backend running smoothly. However, optimizing a system for efficiency doesn’t always go down well with clients. In fact, it can reduce customer value and loyalty, leaving them disengaged from the process you’re helping them through.
     
    Tune in this week to discover how you might unknowingly be alienating your customers in an effort to have efficient systems in your law firm. I’m discussing how to find the line that separates efficiency and customer value, and you’ll learn how to help customers see intrinsic value in becoming part of your streamlined systems.
     
    For full show notes, transcript, and more information, visit: https://www.agileattorney.com/7

    • 27 min
    006. What Clients Really Want from Lawyers

    006. What Clients Really Want from Lawyers

    When somebody hires a lawyer, what are they really looking for? One mainstay of being an Agile Attorney is delivering customer value consistently, so how do you invest your time and experience in your practice now to create an environment that prioritizes client value in your firm? 

    Discover how you can pivot in your law firm to provide the kind of value your clients really want from you. I’m giving you tools that will help you expand what you’re able to offer your clients, aside from advancing their legal matters, to meet their human needs without neglecting the social and emotional complexities that people experience when navigating the legal system.
     
    For full show notes, transcript, and more information, visit: https://www.agileattorney.com/6

    • 32 min
    005. Close the Closable: Finding Balance in Your Caseload

    005. Close the Closable: Finding Balance in Your Caseload

    Do you have numerous cases close to being completed but, because they are no longer urgent, they sit among the rest of your work and make you feel overwhelmed by all there is to do? Many firms overlook addressing this common issue as an opportunity to reduce the total amount of work in their system.
     
    This week, I’m building on concepts we’ve talked about over the last few weeks to help you organize your law practice. I’ll cover two important concepts related to law practice management and how to prioritize where you set your and your team’s finite time and attention. I’ll also introduce new concepts to help you reduce administration overheads and close cases and tasks that are closeable in your law practice.
     
    For full show notes, transcript, and more information, visit: https://www.agileattorney.com/5

    • 27 min
    004. Kanban Board Essentials for Lawyers

    004. Kanban Board Essentials for Lawyers

    There is a wealth of tools out there designed to streamline your workflow, easy to pick up and capable of adapting in countless ways as you master them. A personal favorite of mine is the Kanban board.
     
    We'll explore various board types, identifying the one that best meets your practice's needs and pinpointing bottlenecks in your process. You'll learn how to introduce useful complexity into your workflow modeling, understand the differences between Matter-level and Task-level boards, and decide which one suits your practice's requirements.
     
    For full show notes, transcript, and more information, visit: https://www.agileattorney.com/4

    • 33 min
    003. Finding and Fixing Bottlenecks to Drive Law Practice Efficiency

    003. Finding and Fixing Bottlenecks to Drive Law Practice Efficiency

    Are you hitting roadblocks in your legal delivery systems because of stubborn bottlenecks that disrupt the flow of work? It feels like every new solution out there promises smoother operations, yet often, they just end up shifting the problem elsewhere.
     
    In today’s episode, I’m going to guide you through the most effective strategies for getting work to move seamlessly through your system again. We’ll take a close look at the bottleneck areas in your law practice and discuss why making improvements in the wrong areas doesn’t really cut it.
     
    For full show notes, transcript, and more information, visit: https://www.agileattorney.com/3

    • 20 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
6 Ratings

6 Ratings

NPOCounsel ,

Great to see this in my feed again!

What a treat to see new episodes showing up again. Welcome back, John. Not that I hated having to track you down on other peoples’ podcasts, but it’s great to see you putting out content on your channel again.

crankshaft333 ,

Highly recommended

John Grant is one of my favorite speakers about agile, law practice, and the future of law. Highly recommend this and his agile attorney materials.

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