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Trend Watch: Turning Lawyers Into Project Managers and Six SIgma Black Belts

By Bruce Carton

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My "trend watch" antennae are going up as I see at least two Big Law firm are now trying to formally train their lawyers to be better project and quality managers. I noticed one example of this back in April, when a post on the Legal Profession Blog alerted me to an interview with Seyfarth Shaw Managing Partner J. Stephen Poor regarding his firm's adoption of "Six Sigma" methodology. For those of you who remain blissfully ignorant of Six Sigma, it is a popular business management strategy that "seeks to improve the quality of process outputs by identifying and removing the causes of defects (errors) and minimizing variability in manufacturing and business processes." It also features a special infrastructure of people within the organization (known as "Black Belts," "Green Belts", etc.) who are experts in various quality-management methods. According to Poor, his firm has been working on Six Sigma for several years, and has embraced a customized version of Lean Six Sigma that it calls SeyfarthLean. It's tailored to meet the needs of a professional services environment as opposed to a manufacturing or transaction-based environment. The attorney profiles on the Seyfarth Shaw Web site include Six Sigma certifications. Employee benefits...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on May 11, 2010 (boomark / email).

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