Using project scorecards to improve the deployment of legal project managers
Legal project managers are a scarce resource and in demand. Law firms must find ways of managing the deployment of…
7 Tips For Accidental Project Managers
What do you do if find yourself leading a project with no training in project management? Many people are placed…
Legal Project Management For Beginners: 10 questions and answers
Legal Project Management has grown immensely since I started this blog site in 2012. Most people in the legal services…
Can supply chain management concepts be applied to legal services?
In the latest edition of his book Tomorrow’s Lawyers, Richard Susskind says that The discipline of legal project management should,…
How to create and use a legal matter schedule
A legal matter schedule is an essential component of matter planning. A good matter schedule is not only a planning…
Operational risk management for legal matters
If operational risks are not managed properly, it becomes very difficult to plan and run legal matters. In the absence…
10 Developments and Trends in Legal Project Management 2012 – 2022
In this post I highlight 10 developments and trends in legal project management which have occurred over the last 10…
Stakeholder communication: steps towards improvement
Often when phrases such as ‘stakeholder management’, ‘stakeholder engagement’ and ‘stakeholder communication’ are referred to people say, with a barely…
5 questions for legal project manager interviews
What questions could – or should – be asked during interviews for legal project managers? How should interviewees begin to…
Managing distributed legal project teams
Managing distributed legal project teams is not, in my view, that different compared to managing legal project teams where everyone…