Abilities, Skills and Attributes of Legal Project Managers
What attributes should firms look for in a legal project manager? This question was posed recently on the Legal Support…
Improving solicitors’ project management competence by activity based learning
According to a survey on the web site of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), 40% of solicitors intend to adopt…
How project management can help develop lawyers’ leadership skills
I received a thoughtful enquiry about legal project management (LPM) training recently from a young lawyer. She had done some…
A wide disconnect in the legal software market?
Software tools supporting project management and process improvement initiatives are sorely needed by law firms, according to a recent survey…
SRA: Project Management is a core competence for solicitors
According to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) project management is a core competence of solicitors. This is set-out in its…
Legal service needs of SME’s
Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SME's) make up 99.9% of private sector businesses in the U.K, with a combined turnover…
Set-up properly for project success
How can you improve the chances of a project delivering recognisable benefits within a defined timescale? One answer is to…
Capacity Planning For Law Firms
We have all experienced this: sometimes we have too much work to do and sometimes we don’t have enough. Individuals,…
From Sport to Law – the rise of data analysis
Data analysis exerts a powerful, often unseen, effect on our lives. Organisations ranging from sports teams to supermarkets employ data…
How to convince clients of your legal project management capability
Clients expect their legal advisors to manage their matters efficiently. New and prospective clients in particular will be thinking, if…