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…
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…
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,…