Legal cost and matter management illustrated
Earned Value Management (EVM) is a project control technique which combines measurements of scope, schedule and costs. Applying an EVM-like…
Civil Litigation Costs Interim Pilot Report: An LPM Perspective
In a well-known passage from Home Office v Lowndes, Lord Woolf pointed out that: ‘In modern litigation, with the emphasis…
Civil Litigation Costs Interim Pilot Report: An LPM Perspective (2)
In my last post I outlined interim results from the Cost Management Pilot Scheme currently underway in the Technology and…
From Sport to Law – the rise of data analysis
Data analysis exerts a powerful, often unseen, effect on our lives. Organisations ranging from sports teams to supermarkets employ data…
Cost management, project management and matter profitability
The requirement to file cost budgets in civil litigation is enforced strictly, as the Mitchell case showed. However filing a…
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…
Why Civil Litigation Lawyers will need some of the skills of Quantity Surveyors
A short post, to draw attention to a really informative article by HH Judge Simon Brown QC in the New…
Legal Costs Estimation – Some Project Management Heuristics
Estimating projects is never an easy task, even for seasoned project professionals. Solicitors estimating litigation costs and preparing case budgets…