How to become an adaptive project professional in legal services
The Association for Project Management (APM) has released a short report called The Adaptive Project Professional. This report, which is…
Overcoming resistance to planning legal matters
Research shows (see here for example) there is a direct positive correlation between the time and effort spent on planning…
Legal Project Managers and Lawyers – parity of pay and status?
Should senior legal project managers have parity in terms of pay and status with senior associates? Many legal project managers…
Legal Project Management Practice 2020
Every year the International Institute of Legal Project Management (IILPM) surveys legal project managers and lawyers, asking questions about legal…
Managing distributed legal project teams
Managing distributed legal project teams is not, in my view, that different compared to managing legal project teams where everyone…
Working from home effectively: 8 tips from a home working veteran
As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, many more people than usual in the legal services industry are working from…
Structured approaches to operational change in legal services
Identifying, implementing and sustaining operational change in legal services is hard to do. The fact is implementing and sustaining operational…
5 questions for legal project manager interviews
What questions could – or should – be asked during interviews for legal project managers? How should interviewees begin to…
Legal matter definition: structure and stories
If legal matters are not defined properly, then any subsequent attempts to plan and manage them are doomed to fail.…
Who is best placed to act as legal project manager?
Who is best placed to act as legal project manager? This is a question I get asked a lot when…