After completing one of my courses you will understand the key principles of legal project management, feel confident about putting them into action and become more able leading teams and driving legal project management roll-out in your organisation.

Legal project management training is for legal service professionals and professional project managers wanting to transition into legal services. Solicitors, barristers, costs lawyers, professional support lawyers, professional project managers looking to enter the legal service industry and legal industry consultants wanting to improve services to their clients have all been on my courses.

The International Institute of Legal Project Management (IILPM) certification is now widely recognised, with IILPM Legal Project Practitioners^TM or Legal Project Associates^TM  or Legal Process Improvement Professionals^TM working in more than 50 countries (and counting).  IILPM certification provides assurance to legal service organisations and their clients that IILPM graduates have a thorough understanding of legal project management and are competent to play leading roles in legal service delivery teams.

Legal Project Management Training Courses

I run two kinds of Legal Project Management Training courses.

1. Public courses which are open to individual subscription and
2. Private courses which I deliver at the request of legal teams.

All my public courses running during 2025 are IILPM LPM certification courses lasting either two days (Legal Project Associate certification – LPA), or three days (Legal Project Practitioner certification – LPP).

In summary the courses are

• Based on the IILPM’s 4-Phase Legal Project Management Framework
• Cover traditional (‘predictive’) project management techniques as well as Agile (‘adaptive’) techniques
• Show students and their organisations how to develop their legal project management maturity
• Have a lot of workshops and exercises so students get some guided practice at applying project management to legal matters.

Team based legal project management courses vary in duration – anything from 90 minute bite-sized sessions to 3 day IILPM certification courses.

I usually tailor course content to meet team requirements and I always encourage teams to provide me with scenarios of typical matters they run.  I then take teams through project based approaches for matter management using their scenarios.

An illustrative list of team based legal project management courses include:

• Courses Lasting up to two hours for partners and senior management staff in law firms
• Half day courses for practising solicitors
• Courses for specific cohorts, such as potential partners and
• Courses for in-house legal teams.

Legal Process Improvement Training Courses

I run two kinds of Legal Process Improvement Training courses.

1. Public courses which are open to individual subscription and
2. Private courses which I deliver at the request of legal teams.

All my public legal process improvement courses running during 2025 are IILPM LPM certification courses lasting two days (Legal Process Improvement Professional certification – LPIP).

All these courses are delivered using Zoom and collaboration platform, Miro.

In summary the courses cover:

• Making an effective start with process improvement and maximising results from limited access to busy lawyers
• Planning and delivering process improvement projects properly
• Working with stakeholders
• Process mapping – why, when and how to use process maps of various kinds.

Team based legal process improvement courses usually last one day (although some teams also elect to do two days’ training and become IILPM certified).

Most often teams ask me not to spend too much time on the detail of formal process improvement methods.  Their preference is to experience a structured approach towards understanding and improving their existing processes and creating new ones.

Teams do learn how to solve some of their immediate problems during the training, but the main goal of this training is to make sure the teams understand core principles and techniques of process improvement (including process mapping) and feel comfortable applying these to their process improvement projects after the course.

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