To become an attorney, candidate must have a bachelor degree of approximately three to four years duration in any field. Even postgraduate students have to study and attend law school for three years, in order to become an attorney. There are several options of fields at law school, most of students choose most popular general law degree and not specialize in anything. That leads to broadening their option for a wide range of case load. They can also take suggestions from your mentors.

In today's world, an attorney is one of busiest and wealthiest occupations among others. With society's nonstop wanting to sue people for trivial things, attorney is obviously reaping profit of this trend. So for how long will this go on? For how long can an attorney be given super hero status at expense of eliminating everything life has to offer us in fear of a lawsuit. Will this always be case, is question.

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•Communicates priorities and direction •Focuses on improving processes, not functions •Aligns operational activity with strategic goals •Provides necessary leverage for change

The benefits of such an approach can be financially dramatic. It has been estimated that impact of adopting a balanced approach to measurement (in legal department alone) is a profitability increase of between 15% and 25% for a typical Fortune 500 company.

The balanced Scorecard (R. Kaplan and D. Norton, Harvard Business Review 1992) is one such a framework.

About The Balanced Scorecard Methodology

The Balanced Scorecard methodology, developed by Robert Kaplan and David Norton, translates an organization’s business strategy into an understandable action plan. Using Balanced Scorecard technique, an organization can clearly define strategic concepts like value, quality and satisfaction. The Balanced Scorecard then becomes a framework for implementing strategies related to those concepts. This range of uses makes Balanced Scorecard an integration hub for strategic management.

With balanced scorecard, corporate legal managers can measure how outside entities and individuals create value for department and organization as a whole. They can determine what department must invest in or take away from to improve that performance. While maintaining an interest in financial returns, Balanced Scorecard reveals non-financial drivers of superior, long-term value creation.

In addition, The Balanced Scorecard enables legal managers to view well being of organization from four important perspectives or quadrants. Each quadrant of scorecard reports performance measures in form of key performance measures or indicators (KPI). The Balanced Scorecard is a mechanism for translating an organization’s vision and strategy into a coherent set of objectives and performance measures. It uses measurement to communicate drivers of current and future success.

Read about Balanced Scorecard Perspectives in Part 2 of “Balancing Your Legal Scorecard”