Project Delivery Capability and Capturing Value from Legal Project Management
It is relatively easy to point out where value can be generated by applying Legal Project Management. For organisations which…
Recognising Value in Legal Project Management
It seems that legal project management is not often implemented consistently and thoroughly as part of law firm strategy. Why not?…
Lawyers, Gantt Charts and the Search for Strategy
There should be no doubt that lawyers can become (and in some cases already are) able legal project managers. A…
Law Firm Strategic Planning: Where should Legal Project Management fit in?
Law firms intent on applying project management principles as part of their service delivery should understand where legal project management…
Legal Ombudsman’s view of a good cost service – Legal Project Management principles go mainstream?
Legal Project Management principles could be going mainstream. The recent report from the Legal Ombudsman about lawyers costs made its…
Legal Costs Estimation – Some Project Management Heuristics
Estimating projects is never an easy task, even for seasoned project professionals. Solicitors estimating litigation costs and preparing case budgets…
Civil Litigation Costs Interim Pilot Report: An LPM Perspective (2)
In my last post I outlined interim results from the Cost Management Pilot Scheme currently underway in the Technology and…
Civil Litigation Costs Interim Pilot Report: An LPM Perspective
In a well-known passage from Home Office v Lowndes, Lord Woolf pointed out that: ‘In modern litigation, with the emphasis…
Legal Project Management – a note in defence of the ‘legal’ prefix
Over the last few years in the U.S. A and Canada the concept of Legal Project Management has become widely…