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…
What should we expect of legal project managers?
Legal Project Management (LPM) is a well-established discipline and the role of legal project manager is an attractive career option…
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…
Helping lawyers change the way they work
How can legal project practitioners, acting as operational legal team leaders, help lawyers change the way they work? To effect…
Paralegals: what they do now and might be doing in future.
I am fascinated about how different professionals fit together as part of legal service delivery teams. We hear a lot about…
Where to implement legal project management?
The benefits of applying legal project management (LPM) successfully are well known and include things such as: improved scoping, which…
Creative Design: A challenge for legal project managers
Lawyers are not known for creative design and presentation of their work output. Recently I had cause to read through…
How clients can help their lawyers deliver value
Clients want their lawyers to deliver value. Unfortunately, most lawyers seem to misunderstand what this means in practice. For example,…
Prince2 for Lawyers
Prince2 is the leading standard project methodology and one of its key principles is that of tailoring the methodology to…
Law Firm Client Surveys: A framework for analysis and action
Just under 40% of law firms conduct regular client surveys. Only 33% of firms go on to use client survey…