Law firm profitability flywheel
Introducing the law firm profitability flywheel Law firms face unrelenting pressure including, for example: clients demanding greater clarity, certainty and…
7 tips for successful legal team workshops
Running legal team workshops effectively is an essential skill for legal project managers and legal process improvement professionals. In this…
The IILPM’s Legal Project Management Maturity Model
The International Institute of Legal Project Management (IILPM) has recently published its Legal Project Management Maturity model. The model is…
The Legal Team Of The Future: Law+ Skills
‘The Legal Team of The Future: Law+ Skills’ is a book written by Adam Curphey, Senior Manager of Innovation at…
Process Improvement: Commercial Contracting and Putting
It’s perfectly feasible to run projects to improve performance in activities as diverse as commercial contracting and putting (as in…
Matter Management Boards for Lawyers
Many lawyers and legal service teams now have some familiarity with the concept Matter Management Boards, a legal service version…
Legal Process Automation: 10 tips to help you automate your legal processes
Legal process automation is not new. In some areas of legal practice, most notably the so-called high volume / low…
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…
Overcoming resistance to planning legal matters
Planning legal matters properly is essential, but there is often quite a lot of resistance against spending time on matter…
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…