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

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 profession 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 PractitionersTM or Legal Project AssociatesTM working in more than 40 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.

Public Courses

  • Open to legal service professionals & project managers wanting to enter the legal services industry
  • Courses held in London
  • All course graduates eligible for IILPM legal project management certification.
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On-Site Courses

  • 1 – 2 hour workshops for partners and senior managers
  • Half day courses for practicing solicitors
  • Two day course for those wanting to become IILPM certified legal project managers.
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IILPM Certification

  • Two days training to become a certified Legal Project AssociateTM
  • Three days training to become a certified Legal Project PractitionerTM
  • Pathways to further qualifications in legal project management.
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How I Have Helped Others

Testimonials

A very accessible and practical course which gave me confidence to start small and have a go…
Tarnya Mason, Associate Director, Real Estate
Pennington Manches Cooper
Excellent course. Provides a clear and in-depth introduction to legal project management…
Dean Robertson, Costs Consultant
Kingsley Napley
Many topics covered in the course are relevant and helpful to the practice areas I work alongside…
Dale Gibbons, Senior Associate (Costs Lawyer)
Kingsley Napley
Antony is very knowledgeable and excellent at conveying the key concepts of legal project management…
Samantha Jago, Costs Lawyer
Reed Smith LLP
The three days achieved exactly what I was looking for – to pull together various bits of disparate knowledge and thinking, and to reassemble them into something more structured and coherent…
Andrew Smith, Head of Group Legal Services
Allied Irish Bank
Incredibly useful and informative. Well structured and kept me engaged, whilst progressing at a good pace…
Natalie Swales, Partner
Masters Legal Costs
Antony is a fantastic trainer, highly knowledgeable, very intelligent and with a great sense of humour which made the training very pleasant…
Christiana Aristidou, Partner, Head of International Business, Tax and IP Law
DEMOCRITOS ARISTIDOU LLC
Antony is an expert in his field. Highly recommended…
Michael Tyler, Partner, 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, Partner, Head of Insurance
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
A very informative course held in a collaborative environment…
Lucy Handford, Managing Associate
Stevens and Bolton
As a project manager from outside the legal industry this course was a great introduction to project management in law…
Adam Holder, Head of Project Management
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…
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…
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 along with a successful record of project delivery.  I am a founding member of the International Institute of Legal Project Management (IILPM), and full member of the Association of Project Management (APM) and the Project Management Institute (PMI).

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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September 17, 2019

Practising lawyers do not sit around all day thinking of legal project management.  They are…

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August 13, 2019

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Ten sought after skills for legal project managers.
July 4, 2019

What skills and attributes are most sought after of legal project managers given current market…

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June 18, 2019

Everyone I have met recently in the legal services industry agrees about the need for…

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Tips and tools for good legal costs services.
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The purpose of the recent second edition of the Legal Ombudsman’s Guidance on Good Costs…

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