Lean for Law Yellow Belt Training

Develop an understanding of Lean and its application across legal services to reduce waste, improve efficiencies, enhance client satisfaction and increase service quality.

Program Content & Structure

Introduction to Lean for Law

  • Understanding Lean’s origins and its tailored objectives for legal service providers
  • Exploring the benefits Lean brings to law, including efficiency, innovation and client satisfaction
  • Addressing challenges faced by traditional law firms through Lean methodologies
  • Insights from law firms that have successfully implemented Lean
Lean Principles and Value
  • Defining value in the context of legal services and focusing on client-centered outcomes
  • Implementing flow and pull principles to enhance efficiency
  • Examining real-life examples of continuous flow in law firms and how they drive results
Managing Waste to Uncover Inefficiencies
  • Identifying waste within legal processes and understanding its impact on operations
  • Conducting a Gemba walk specifically designed for law firms to uncover inefficiencies
  • Strategies for eliminating waste and stabilizing improvements in legal workflows
  • Case Study: How a Lean approach to waste reduction led to increased revenue in a law firm

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Why This Program?

This training is tailored for Lean practitioners and helps develop an understanding of Lean and its application across legal services to reduce waste, improve efficiencies, enhance client satisfaction and increase service quality. Through engaging case studies, hands-on assignments and a practical toolkit, participants will be able to apply their learning to make small improvements in the workplace.

Benefits to Law Firms

  • Streamline document handling by reducing errors and expediting the review process, thereby leading to speedier case resolutions
  • Minimize administrative tasks and free up more time for billable legal work
  • Standardize and improve communication channels with clients and within the organization, thereby reducing delays and miscommunications

What You'll Learn

  • Identify wasteful activities within organizations across the legal services sector
  • Identify specific improvement opportunities
  • Apply key Lean principles and tools to realize improvements in the workplace

Who is this Program For?

This program is aimed at professionals with Lean experience leading continuous improvement initiatives within organizations across any sector.

Learn From Leaders

All our Lean Belt Programs are delivered and developed by accomplished Lean experts. Experts who have worked at the coalface and have tangible experience putting theory to practical use in real world environments.

Our master trainer for Lean for Law has been delivering consulting to the legal profession over the last 2 years with great success. Specifically, legal projects include e-Conveyancing process mapping, Finance Department process mapping, Education Department system process mapping, Strategy workshops, etc.

Pat Cullinane

Pat is our senior transformation practitioner with the ability to connect with all levels of an organisation, from C-suite in developing strategy and direction, to front line coaching & mentoring, imparting expertise to enable self-sustaining teams. Pat’s expertise is in operational excellence and advising on change management & strategy with some of the largest companies in the world. He has over 24 years’ experience of executing Lean, change management and transformation programs in services, manufacturing, and the...

Assessment

Assessment is based on completing a multiple-choice exam. Upon successful completion participants will receive Lean Yellow Belt certification from Leading Edge Group.

Key Information

The program can be delivered through in-person instructor-led or live online instructor-led training for groups of participants.

Program/Contact Hours
2 days
Prerequisites
None

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