Understanding the boutique advantage is one thing—successfully implementing procurement strategies that capture this value requires practical frameworks and evaluation methodologies. Here's how progressive legal departments are adapting their approaches.
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The narrative around AI in legal services often focuses on large firms' technology investments, but the reality is more nuanced. Boutique practices are not just keeping pace—they're often leading
What Failure-Friendly Firms Do Differently
They normalise learning from setbacks Monthly "failure reviews" aren't about blame—they're intelligence gathering. What went wrong? Why? How do we
High-performing law firms do something that seems counterintuitive: they budget for failure. And it's genius.
The Innovation Portfolio Approach
Data from my pricing consultancy work reveals that firms in the
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The most successful law firms I work with share one counterintuitive trait: they're not afraid to fail.
Yet across the UK legal sector, I'm seeing firms