Seven books to help you with legal project management
I regularly get asked to recommend resources about legal project management (LPM). Here is a run through of some books…
Reduce the risk of project failure and increase your legal project management capability
Where and how to deploy resources for maximum benefit is a constant challenge for all organisations, including law firms. How…
Four practical steps for improving the effectiveness of lawyer-client communications
According to George Bernard Shaw The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place Given…
A template for law firm process improvement: professional sport
Lawyers and law firms could learn a lot from professional sports. The aim of professional sportsmen and women is to…
Noise, signal, action: how lawyers can get better at estimating (and other aspects of practising law)
Lawyers are just as poor at predicting the future as economists. In his book ‘The Signal and the Noise’ Nate…
Why law firms need to get better at deciphering signals from the noise
The title of this post alludes to the best-selling book by Nate Silver, ‘The Signal and The Noise: The Art…
Project management skills of lawyers: a litmus test of competence?
Several law firms have told me recently that some of their practice areas have lost out when bidding for new…
Pricing legal services with purpose and confidence
Process improvement, productivity gains, pricing strategies and project based legal service delivery: responses by legal service providers to the competitive…
Cost budget practice and precedent form h – how might these be developed in future?
According to the final report (‘the report’) on the civil litigation cost management pilot, most of the judges who took…
What features should you look for in an LPM support system?
Often when I discuss legal project management (LPM) with lawyers it is usually they who first raise the issue of…