About Keith Maziarek
Keith Maziarek understands how to develop, build and implement the firm’s formal pricing and legal project management functions. His experience includes developing tools, processes and methodologies that ensure a consistent firm pricing strategy, efficiently deliver services and maximize client value through performance monitoring and institutional best practices. Keith is responsible for both internal and client-facing duties, and is skilled at creating innovative solutions to common financial and operational challenges in how law firms and client legal departments interact.
Keith’s background in strategic pricing and client collaboration began in the very early days of what is now a new profession in the legal industry. He served as the head of Strategic Pricing at a major global law firm, where he developed, implemented and managed the firm’s first strategic pricing, profitability and legal project management functions. Prior to that, he worked in strategic business development and marketing, gaining a deep understanding of clients’ business needs and priorities.
Before joining Katten, Keith served as senior director of client value for another major law firm, where he collaborated closely with legal operations executives at the firm’s top clients to establish strategic pricing arrangements, implement customized communication and collaboration tools and efficiency solutions, improve performance monitoring and reporting, and establish useful key performance metrics.
* Not a practicing attorney
Practice Focus
- Strategic pricing and legal project management
- Profitability management
- Addressing financial and operational challenges
- Counseling partners, clients and firm leadership on pricing, value, fee negotiations and bidding
News
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January 24, 2024
Publications
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May 1, 2024
Presentations and Events
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April 23, 2024Okay, So Now What?: Reimagining Pricing and Profitability in an Efficiency-Enabled Market | Presented by Legal Value NetworkSpeaker
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March 14, 202417th Managing Partners ForumSpeaker | From Analog to Digital: Reimagining Pricing & Profitability in an Efficient-Enabled Market
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January 18, 2024Thomson Reuters Marketing Partner ForumPanelist | With Atlas in Hand: Exploring Cost Control-Pricing Strategies
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October 12, 2023The American Lawyer,
Pro Monthly Webcast Panelist | Billables and Budgets: Law Firm Financial Planning for 2024 -
September 21, 2023Legal Value Network, LVNx ConferenceCo-Presenter | The Next Frontier in Legal Pricing: AI Augmented Services
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May 4, 2023Pricing, Profitability and Data Analytics Conference | Sandpiper PartnersPanelist
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May 3, 2023Fringe Legal PodcastGuest | Unlocking the Future of Legal Service Delivery
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April 5, 2023LPPM Survey Virtual Summit | Legal Value NetworkPresenter
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February 8, 2023Legal Project Management Conference | Practising Law InstituteApplying Legal Project Management to Your Matters (Part 2): Learning New Approaches for Managing and Budgeting
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