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…
5 examples of how legal project management can help reduce stress
When was the last time you felt stressed at work? Probably recently, as the legal sector is one of the…
Building Legal Project Management Skills and Organisational Capability
I have co-authored an e-book with Todd Hutchison, another founder member of the International Institute for Legal Project Management (IILPM).…
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…
Worried about managing cost of complex matters when pricing by value? Consider Agile techniques
It is not uncommon to hear lawyers say that, while they like the concept of value pricing, it could not…
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…
The Strategy Gap
It is taken as given that law firms need a well-defined business strategy to succeed. But how many firms implement…
Here are the key challenges facing legal project managers
What are the key challenges facing legal project managers? How do these challenges impact on their day-to-day working practices? What…