As part of our commitment to excellence and anticipating client needs, we have reimagined the way we serve our clients through Honigman FOCUS. Honigman FOCUS is our innovative service-delivery platform, designed to optimize client service at cost-effective prices. Through Honigman FOCUS, the incorporation of practice technologies, project management, creative pricing, value-add services, and tailored client teams is now standard in our service models.
“We designed Honigman FOCUS as part of our commitment to stay ahead of client needs through continuous improvement and adapting our delivery model to provide an exceptional client experience.”
— David Foltyn, Honigman Chair and CEO
Through collaboration with our clients, the Honigman FOCUS team identifies clients’ legal and business needs on both an individual matter and relationship basis. Honigman FOCUS embodies our client service standards by providing the flexibility necessary to adapt to clients’ needs, maximizing efficiencies and value through the combination of cutting-edge practice technologies, legal project management principles, and matter-specific staffing models. FOCUS streamlines legal operations to enhance the client experience with greater transparency, efficiency, and ease of use, ensuring we are best-positioned to deliver outstanding service and results on every matter.
Honigman FOCUS is comprised of six service areas:
Practice Technology
CLOSE XHow our practice technology can drive value for you:
- Maximize productivity and pass on those efficiency gains in the form of savings to you by applying the use of cutting-edge artificial intelligence like automated contract review software
- Benefit from our applied disciplines to document transactions, case experience and judicial appearances from legal analytic tools to inform future legal strategy and the likelihood of possible outcomes
- Experience consistency from our tested efficiency-gaining strategies as we leverage form checklists, model documents, and other precedent materials
- Enjoy consistent and sustained value from our continuous improvement efforts, which utilize Lean Six Sigma principles
- FOCUS on our ability to provide timely counsel - our technology platforms enable our client teams to respond quickly with relevant, succinct advice at a budget-conscious price
- Leverage legal analytic tools to inform strategy to provide you with our data-supported approach. Our resources provide insights on courts and opposing counsel, and we utilize platforms that provide predictive data about how courts and judges rule in certain areas of law and on particular topics/pleading types
- Apply legal document editing technology to achieve the highest quality of legal services, which ultimately saves time and produces clearer prose
Flexible Staffing Solutions
CLOSE XHow flexible staffing can drive value for you:
- Handle matters that require large teams by being able to scale up when necessary and provide efficient, appropriate, consistent and cost-effective staffing structures
- Provide quality legal services within specific and specialized subject areas at a lower price-point for those with a higher cost sensitivity
- Utilize talented resources to create relevant staffing models for all legal services
- Experience streamlined service and thorough, consistent representation on matters with large diligence or discovery components, avoiding outsourcing of large-scale tasks to contract workers while still remaining highly cost-efficient
- Develop creative solutions to service your needs for routine work at a budget-conscious price
- Draw from our talented pool of institutionally trained attorneys for short-term or long-term secondment arrangements
- Experience big-law firm quality and staffing capabilities at a more accessible price, with every Honigman attorney institutionally trained and developed
Value-Add Services
CLOSE XOur value-add services include:
- Strive to build strategic partnerships with clients by providing free, value-add services customized to meet your ever-changing needs
- Experience a collaborative approach as we identify opportunities to enhance the client-firm working relationship with a FOCUS on how we can seamlessly do business together
- Accelerate your law department’s growth efforts through the use of our firm’s tools, resources and training offerings (Honigman HAbility Catalogue)
- Draw from our talented pool of institutionally trained track attorneys for short-term or long-term secondment arrangements
- Understand from our clients what value means to them - from understanding your communication preferences to pricing expectations, we strive to tailor our services to meet your needs
Legal Project Management
CLOSE XHow legal project management can drive value for you:
- Budgeting and estimating processes are driven by our clients’ goals, a defined matter scope, and historical data analysis, resulting in greater predictability and optimized cash flow management
- Monitoring engagements (typically weekly) and providing customized reports highlighting key information. Active review and updates limit surprises and allow us to work cooperatively to identify scope changes as necessary
- Entering time daily is required for all timekeepers to ensure we have up-to-date information. Phase and Task Code billing allows for more accurate data analysis of similar matters and enhanced predictability
- Engaging in post-matter conversations with our clients, sharing matter insights and actively gathering lessons learned to ensure continuous improvement in the services we provide
Dedicated Client Initiatives
CLOSE XHow our dedicated client initiatives drive value for you:
- Aim to support your business objectives and service needs via client teams with plans
- Provide quality legal services within specific and specialized subject areas with a clear scope and at a budget-conscious price
- FOCUS on delivering consistent and sustained value through continuous improvement efforts, relevant and succinct communication, and regimented feedback discussions
- Advance your legal department objectives through our collaborative approach and identify opportunities to enhance our working relationship with a FOCUS on how we can seamlessly do business together
- Align our value offerings and innovation efforts with your specific and unique challenges
- Experience big-law firm flexibility at a lower cost. Receive the same relevant matter-staffing capability as any large law firm, with every Honigman FOCUS lawyer institutionally trained and developed
Creative Pricing
CLOSE XHow creative pricing can drive value for you:
- Price based on meeting goals and expectations, not simply about rates or pricing methods
- Assist clients by clarifying their goals and objectives in light of the relevant legal issues and the associated costs they are prepared to incur, to enable proper evaluation of options in terms of the legal services that are needed and the fee alternatives for obtaining those services
- Leverage data to drive the pricing of legal services for both firms and clients, so transparency is critical. We utilize–and share–data, when appropriate, to arrive at a proposed arrangement
- Treat every matter as different, focusing on clients’ needs, expectations, and constraints. Some situations require predictability, while others are outcome-driven.
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Contacts
Esther Bowers
Chief Practice Management Officer
313.465.7010
ebowers@honigman.com
Melanie Shield
Director of Client Solutions & Lead Client Intake Counsel
313.465.8159
mshield@honigman.com
Robert Riley
Chief Value Partner
248.566.8376
rriley@honigman.com
Additional Contacts
Stacy Pavetti
Creative Pricing
248.566.8639
spavetti@honigman.com
Sarah A. McCormick
Legal Project Management
248.566.8376
smccormick@honigman.com
Nicholas D. Weier
Flexible Staffing Solutions
313.465.8226
nweier@honigman.com
Shayda Safapour
Value-Add Services
312.701.9395
ssafapour@honigman.com
Lindsey Leber
Dedicated Client Initiatives
313.465.7216
lleber@honigman.com
Diana D. Walsh
Dedicated Client Initiatives
313.465.7788
dwalsh@honigman.com