Overview

BigHand Partner Performance is an advanced, interactive portal purpose-built for legal firms to streamline and optimize the partner review and compensation process. It unifies performance data from diverse sources—such as Practice Management Systems (PMS), Iridium Cubes, and other data platforms—into one centralized solution. The platform enables compensation committees to efficiently allocate performance points, bonuses, and determine final compensation through a transparent, data-driven process. Beyond streamlining workflows, the system offers self-evaluation tools, detailed historical performance data, and advanced drill-down insights into client and matter-level trends. This helps firms standardize partner reviews, drive engagement, foster fairness, and ensure transparency in compensation-related decision-making.

Features and Capabilities

• **Unified data access: **Consolidates data from Practice Management Systems (PMS), Iridium Cubes, and other firm-wide platforms into a single, secure portal. Enables comprehensive, real-time visibility across all performance metrics and financial data relevant to partner reviews.
• **Streamlined review workflows: **Simplifies and standardizes the entire partner evaluation process by allowing committees to allocate performance points, assign bonuses, and finalize compensation decisions all within the platform. Ensures consistency, transparency, and efficiency in the review cycle.
• **Comparative analytics: **rovides advanced side-by-side and year-over-year comparison tools for assessing partner performance trends and compensation outcomes. Helps identify patterns, drive informed discussions, and support fair and balanced compensation decisions.
• **Self-evaluation: **Enables partners to complete and submit self-assessments directly through the portal. These submissions are stored alongside committee evaluations to create a holistic and transparent view of performance from multiple perspectives.
• Notes & recommendations: Allows committee members to record qualitative feedback, notes, and actionable recommendations. These insights persist across review cycles, supporting continuous professional development and accountability.
• **Deep insights: **Offers granular drill-down capabilities into individual attorney performance metrics, segmented by client and matter. Includes tracking of shared credits, facilitating accurate performance attribution and deeper understanding of contributions to client success.
• **Historical performance access: **Provides seamless access to multiple years of performance and compensation data. Supports trend analysis, long-term performance tracking, and strategic planning for partner development and firm growth.