Seyfarth Shaw's Six Sigma program, "Seyfarth Lean", has been getting a lot of press recently. Following on a mention in BusinessWeek, the law firm's Six Sigma program was highlighted in a recent article in the ABA Journal. Debra Cassens Weiss, Seyfarth Shaw Says Six Sigma Method Has Cut Client Fees by Up to 50%, ABA Journal, Law News Now, Sept. 14, 2009, at URL.
While Seyfarth Shaw isn't the only firm looking at ways to adapt Lean Six Sigma to legal work (e.g., see my post on Morris James LLP), it certainly does more than any other firm that I know of to advertise the fact. In this regard it is a trailblazer and is doing much to raise awareness of the role that project management and process improvement methodologies can play in legal work.
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