A family law firmScale Engine

Taking the managing partner out of the daily path

Operational workflows, decision thresholds, and live financial dashboards replaced a firm where every exception waited for one person's approval.

Routine
approvals resolved without the partner
Real time
financial and KPI visibility
Written down
process, for the first time

The situation

The managing partner approved intake decisions, fee arrangements, and scheduling exceptions personally. Court days stalled the entire pipeline, and the firm's actual process had never been written down.

Where the money was going

Growth had added volume without adding capacity, because every additional matter meant additional decisions routed to one person. Work paused whenever the partner was in court, and the financial picture was assembled after the fact rather than watched in real time.

One person
approving every exception
Court days
stalling the whole pipeline
After the fact
financial visibility only

The fix

  1. 01Mapped every process that required the partner and what it would take for it not to.
  2. 02Defined decision rules and thresholds so routine approvals resolve without escalation.
  3. 03Automated task assignment, status changes, and internal notifications.
  4. 04Built live dashboards for revenue, spend, and matter throughput by practice area.

System architecture

ProcessDocumented stages, owners, and handoffs
RulesThresholds that resolve routine approvals
AutomationTask assignment, status, and escalation
VisibilityLive revenue, spend, and throughput dashboards
ContinuityDocumentation that survives turnover
The payback

The firm continues signing matters on days the partner is unavailable.

What should your business stop doing manually?

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