Legal Project Management Limited: Applying Project Management to Law

Legal Project Management Training

From the sole provider in the U.K and Ireland of training and certification approved by the International Institute of Legal Project Management.

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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.

How I Can Help You

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 Practitioners^TM or Legal Project Associates^TM working in more than 45 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

Since February 2020 I have delivered all of my training online, with all live training via Zoom. While I would like to return to face to face training, realistically, this is unlikely to return before Autumn 2021 I think. I will of course be monitoring the Covid-19 situation here in the U.K closely and plan accordingly.

I deliver two broad classes of legal project management training courses: IILPM certification courses and shorter non-certification courses.

IILPM LPM certification courses last either two days (Legal Project Associate – LPA), or three days (Legal Project Practitioner – LPP).

Certification courses

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

Shorter non-certification legal project management courses can last varying amounts of time, although most commonly I run ‘bite-sized’ sessions of about 90 minutes or sessions of half a day.

Non-certification courses to date are:

‘On demand’ courses open to all
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.

A number of my courses are public courses open to individual subscription.

You can find out courses currently available and scheduled for 2021 here.

How I Have Helped Others

Testimonials

The three-day course provides a comprehensive insight into legal project management and how legal project management techniques can be implemented effectively in practice…

Tyler McEwan, Costs Lawyer

I was slightly concerned about taking a course via Zoom but I needn’t have been, this method of training delivery worked very well…

Gaynor Paul, Project Manager

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, Former 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

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.

What Is Legal Project Management (LPM)?

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