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…
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.…
A day in the life of a legal project manager: 1st June 2020
This is a guest post by Rohit Talwar and Alexandra Whittington from Fast Future Publishing. Over the last 18 months…
Uber-model for legal services?
Some commentators have been asking whether law firms and other legal service organisations should adopt an Uber-like model for legal…
Legal Education: a place for legal project management?
How can law schools prepare their students for the changing demands and expectations of a 21st century career? This is…
An Introduction to Value Stream Mapping for Lawyers and Business Development Staff: Part 3 – implementing improvements
A future state value stream map (VSM) can be a daunting prospect, likely as it is to consist of new…
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…
Seven books to help you with legal project management
I regularly get asked to recommend resources about legal project management (LPM). Here is a run through of some books…
A template for law firm process improvement: professional sport
Lawyers and law firms could learn a lot from professional sports. The aim of professional sportsmen and women is to…
Pricing legal services with purpose and confidence
Process improvement, productivity gains, pricing strategies and project based legal service delivery: responses by legal service providers to the competitive…