How Firms Operate
Follow one matter change down two paths and see why timing matters.
Technology Governance for Legal Operations
When Legal Work Changes,
Matter Economics Change With It.
Scope expands. Strategy shifts. Budgets move. Additional work becomes necessary. Each change can affect cost, margin, timeline, staffing, and client expectations. Firms are better served when they recognize consequential changes while meaningful options remain.
The people behind Yavardi
Where Enterprise Engineering meets legal judgment shaped in Big Law and proven as Chief Corporation Counsel.
Meet the Team
The Problem
Legal matters rarely follow the original plan.
Discovery expands, a new expert becomes necessary, strategy shifts, staffing changes. The work may still be appropriate, but the economics of the matter have now changed.
The question is when the firm responds to that change.
When the change is recognized early, the firm can evaluate the path forward, understand the budget and profitability implications, and involve the client. When it surfaces later during billing review, those options have already narrowed.
Without Matter Governance
Each change is handled differently.
Whether a consequential change is recognized, decided, and shared with the client depends on who notices it, and when.
- Changes noticed inconsistently
- Decisions made without shared context
- Clients told after the fact
With Matter Governance
Consequential changes become decisions.
Matter Governance gives the firm a consistent way to handle changes in scope, budget, staffing, strategy, and additional work, and to involve the client where appropriate.
- Scope, budget, and staffing changes
- Strategy shifts and additional work
- Client involvement where appropriate
Enterprise Standards
Built to the standards your firm demands.
Yavardi is designed from the ground up with enterprise security and governance principles. Data protection and access control are design priorities, because the systems that support your firm's governance should meet the same standard you hold your own work to.
Talk to the teamSecurity first
Security and least-privilege access are treated as design priorities.
Best Practices
Informed by established industry security practices.
Reviewable
Designed to support later review of consequential matter decisions.
Resilient
Designed with operational continuity in mind.
The Hidden Cost
When changes surface late, the firm pays a Reconstruction Tax™
Realization Leakage
Revenue written down on work the firm has already performed.
Capacity Leakage
Time spent reconstructing what changed and why, after the fact.
Where to Go Next
From the problem to where your firm begins.
Reconstruction Tax™
What late recognition costs, and how to estimate it for your firm.
Matter Governance
The operating discipline that should exist when a matter changes.
Baseline Assessment
Start by seeing where matter changes are creating exposure in your firm.
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