Metrics That Might Matter #4: PPP

And now we come to the main event, the poisoned chalice bequeathed to us by Steven Brill. Let us proceed from the specific to the general, or if you prefer the structural to the symbolic. Are the reported numbers accurate? Silly question. We all know the answer to...

Metrics That Might Matter #3: PPL

Last year The American Lawyer introduced a new metric into its annual reports, “Profit per lawyer,” or PPL.  Briefly, here’s what they said about it back in April, the second year they calculated it: Introduced last year, this metric is an alternate way of looking at...
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