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.…
Reflective solicitors recognising project management skills
As part of the new professional competence regime for solicitors, founded on the premise of self-evaluation and self-assessment, the Solicitors…
How to get legal teams working better on matters.
How to get legal teams working better on matters? This is one of the questions I get asked most often…
Why its called legal project management
I have read a few comments on social media recently where it has been said there is nothing so special…
Change in legal services: how to start and keep going
Everyone I have met recently in the legal services industry agrees about the need for change. Most are taking steps…