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Case Studies

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Innovation & Marketing Strategy for Am Law 100 Firm

Opportunity: Bring together firm leaders to develop actionable innovation strategy, highly focused on delivering more value to clients

DBL’s Work: Facilitation of hands-on Innovation Summit, bringing together cross-functional team to draw out opportunities in the market, firm obstacles, and narrow in on realistic short and long-term goals and plans for execution

Outcome: “Strategic Framework,” including clear plans for execution, outlining how the firm will focus its innovation efforts and investments

support am law 50 firm in designing transformational automation & collaboration platform

Opportunity: Design end-to-end platform to transform the way the firm’s Emerging Companies Practice completes core workstreams and collaborates with clients

DBL’s Work: Partnering with a digital design agency, we led user diligence interviews with clients and internal firm stakeholders, synthesized pain points and opportunities into requirements documents, and served as legal service SME and liaison between firm and design agency

Outcome: Differentiated Emerging Companies service offering

Design & deliver client-facing contract management solution on behalf of regional firm

Opportunity: Solve manufacturing client’s pain point around inconsistent contracting process (and unhelpful contract repository offered by competitor firm)

DBL’s Work: Helped law firm understand current state of client’s contracting process (through Client Insights Interview) and to map out the ideal future state. Leveraged an existing firm software (HighQ) to build a Contract Lifecycle Management tool and sell packaged service to client

Outcome: Client is moving legal work from competing firm, and firm is scaling solution to other clients