Legal Project Management Training
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What Is Legal Project Management (LPM)?

Legal Project Management is the application of project management to the delivery of legal services. 

Applying project management principles, tools and techniques to client matters helps legal service delivery teams improve the management of cost, pricing, risk, resources and client communications. 

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Legal Project Management Training, Certification and Support

Legal Project Management training is a great way of enhancing existing skills and experience (most people have some experience of taking part in projects – even if they may not know it!) and supplementing them with new ones.

I help my trainees become more effective project team members and, more importantly, effective project leaders. I see too many legal project managers content with managing rather than leading projects from an operational point of view.  This needs to change.  Legal Project Management is no longer new, it is an established discipline and career path.  It is however still maturing and I help people step up to become operational legal project leaders.

The International Institute of Legal Project Management (IILPM) certification is now widely recognised, with IILPM Legal Project PractitionersTM or Legal Project AssociatesTM working in 26 countries.  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.

LPM Training

  • Skills based training
  • Workshops and exercises using legal scenarios
  • Explanation and demonstration of software support for LPM.
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LPM Certification

  • Legal Project AssociateTM
  • Legal Project PractitionerTM
  • Pathways to further qualifications in legal project management.
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LPM Support

  • Coaching and mentoring
  • Continued development of tools and resources
  • Advice and assistance with LPM IT and process improvements.
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How I Have Helped Others

Testimonials

“Antony is an expert in his field. Highly recommended”.

Michael Tyler, Head of Costs Kingsley Napley

"An intensive and informative course providing a solid grounding for would be legal project managers"

Simon Murray, Partner & Head of Costs Services DWF

"This is an excellent course that will provide you with all the necessary tools and information to integrate legal project management into your business".  

Nicola Billen, Associate, Dispute Resolution, Head of Insurance and Risk asblaw

“I would recommend this course to anyone interested in legal project management: informative, engaging and thought-provoking.”

Paul McCarthy, Partner, Head of Costs CFG Law

“I feel confident I am leaving training with a sound understanding of the LPM methodology and how to implement it within the firm”.

Charlotte Boswell, Costs Lawyer Kingsley Napley

"Fantastic course, both practical and technical".

Rebecca Jorgensen, Associate, Head of Employment asblaw

"Excellent course, well delivered.  The right level of coverage of core project management methodologies before moving on to legal project management".

Andrea Mulchrone, Associate & Deputy Operational Client Manager DWF

“I found the course very informative…I can’t wait to put it into good practice!”

Jemma Young, Project Manager Burges Salmon

“We engaged Antony to deliver a series of seminars about Legal Project Management. Feedback from members who attended was overwhelmingly positive about both the content and presenter.”

Sue Nash, Chair Association of Cost Lawyers

“Antony’s course is really well run and delivered. A good mix of teaching styles: lecturing and interactive workshops / discussion points.”

Sarah Barrett-Vane SBV Consulting

"Excellent interactive course with lots of practical examples and tips that can be implemented immediately".

Emma Newby
Newby Legal Consulting

"An excellent training program for anyone who wants to learn about legal project management".

Abilash Unny, Project Manager Slater and Gordon LLP

“Thought provoking and interesting. I look forward to putting it into practice and seeing the inevitable changes within the industry”.

Nicola Sayers, Housing Development Legal Officer Epping Forest District Council

"Enlightening and useful course, mixing formality with the light touch of interaction within the workshops.  The course has encouraged me to want to learn more".

William Whawell Auxilium Legal

“I would definitely recommend the course for a detailed overview of legal project management and for upskilling”.

Margaret Ivowi, Legal Contracts Manager B and CE Holdings

“I really enjoyed Antony’s course. The concepts were well explained and illustrated with interesting practical examples.”

Anna Sulowska, Legal Editor Thompson Reuters

“Antony is a smart and open-minded coach who clearly enjoys interaction with his students and I would be very happy to work with him again.”

Harald Evers, Attorney at Law KPMG Law, Germany

"Excellent delivery of an innovative course.  Antony showed flexibility and responsiveness to student needs.  The workshops and exercises helped better understanding of the project management concepts presented".

Stella Akpotoma, Senior Immigration Consultant

"A course that provides a huge amount of insight and information but also makes you think very hard about how you do things and how you could do them better".

Katherine Bird, Director of Business Development Hook Tangaza

“Antony is knowledgeable and his passion for the topic was evident. The course itself has great content with lots of information, and I loved the book of templates”.

Clare Collins, Head of Learning and Development
Global Law Firm

“I thought the course was really good – I’ve covered some areas before, but it was great to have those areas refreshed and there was plenty that was new.”

Katherine Milliken, Head of Practice Development Macfarlanes

“Antony provided training for my team on Legal Project Management. I highly recommend Antony’s training.”

James Barrett, Managing Associate Practico Costs

“Antony is a pleasure to work with and he has been a real asset to our business as we invest in further technology for the future benefit of our practice.”

Fiona Morrison, Practice Manager CFG Law

“Antony has a strong understanding of both the legal process and IT systems. This enables him to produce very compelling solutions helping law firms to get real advantage and ROI.”

Ian Wylie, Legal Workflow Developer Langleys Solicitors

“If you want to learn about the opportunities and challenges associated with implementing legal project management and legal process improvement, I’d recommend a half day session with Antony as an excellent starting point.”

Adrian Livesley, Managing Partner Birkett Long, Solicitors

“Antony and I share similar views in relation to the application of IT to the law and he has real world experience of what the day job entails which informs his views in relation to IT.”

Stuart Whittle, Partner, IT & Operations Director Weightmans Solicitors

“Antony is particularly good at looking at market and product ideas which lie slightly outside of business as usual – he is a thorough researcher and passionate advocate of his ideas and proposals.”

Karen Taylor, Head of Product Management LexisNexis

“Introducing workflow systems into numerous departments and offices throughout the firm presented challenges on a number of fronts. Antony did an excellent job of managing these projects.”

Martin Godfrey, Director Firswood Consulting Ltd
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About me – Antony Smith

I am a solicitor by training, with postgraduate qualifications in law, computing and project management. These have been supplemented by continued professional development in project management (I am a full member of the Association of Project Management and the Project Management Institute) along with a successful record of project delivery.

I have considerable experience of project management in all kinds of legal environments: solicitors firms (Pinsent Masons, Berrymans Lace Mawer), academia (School of Law, King’s College London) and legal software development organisations. I enjoyed working as a Strategic Project Manager at Axxia / LexisNexis for more than 10 years.

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FREE e-book: Building Legal Project Management Skills and Organisational Capability – training and certification for delivering legal projects.

Get the E-book ‘Building Legal Project Management Skills and Organisational Capability – training and certification to deliver legal projects’

The book answers many of the most common questions asked about Legal Project Management (LPM) such as:

  • What is LPM?
  • Why do I need to know about it?
  • How can you be sure clients want LPM?
  • My firm already does what clients value, why add LPM?
  • Isn’t LPM only for large law firms?
  • How can my firm benefit from applying LPM?
  • How can I start to improve my firm’s LPM capability?
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