Question

As the administrative manager in a law office, you have been asked to develop a system for evaluating the productivity of 15 lawyers in the office. What difficulties are you going to have in doing this, and how are you going to overcome it

Answer 1

Simply counting number of cases won does not consider other factors like settlement, so a more robust system must be used

Step-by-step explanation:

In a law firm there are different criteria that can be used to evaluate productivity of lawyers. These include number of cases won, the quality and expertise of opposing counsel, cases that are settled between clients, and number of cases processed.

Since simply counting one of these criteria is not sufficient, we need to get a system that considers them all.

Using a grading system that gives highest percentage score to wins for example 40%.

Cases against against opposing counsel where the lawyers performed well but lost can take a 10% share.

While number of cases processed and cases settled between clients can take 25% each.

This system will consider all the factors that affect performance of the 15 lawyers in the office