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…
Adversity breeding invention: opportunities to do more than practise law
There is much doom and gloom in the English legal profession right now. The current market is clearly very difficult…
Project Management and legal service delivery: what would you like to see in a LPM training seminar?
Research conducted by the Ark Group has shown that professional support lawyers (PSLs) and knowledge management (KM) professionals in law…
Tomorrow’s Lawyers: An interview with Professor Richard Susskind
Richard Susskind’s new book, called Tomorrow’s Lawyers, was published on 10th January. Recently I interviewed Richard about his book for…
An interview with Mitch Kowalski: Re-imagining Legal Services for the 21st Century
One of the legal industry events of last year was the publication of Mitch Kowalski's book, 'Avoiding Extinction: Re-imagining Legal Services for…