Kick-off meetings for legal service delivery: why, when, who and how.
The essential purpose of a project kick-off meeting is to make sure that everyone on the delivery team understands what…
How should you start implementing legal project management?
You are asked to be the operational lead for implementing legal project management in your law firm or department. How…
The Neglected Art Of Planning
This is a guest post by Richard Copley, a change and operations manager who has led teams of legal project…
Building Legal Project Management Skills and Organisational Capability
I have co-authored a new e-book with Todd Hutchison, another founder member of the International Institute for Legal Project Management…
Avoiding irrelevance of Prince II for legal project management certification
Prince II (Projects In Controlled Environments) is probably the world’s most popular structured project management method. I am a certified…
The Strategy Gap
It is taken as given that law firms need a well-defined business strategy to succeed. But how many firms implement…
How project management can help develop lawyers’ leadership skills
I received a thoughtful enquiry about legal project management (LPM) training recently from a young lawyer. She had done some…
SRA: Project Management is a core competence for solicitors
According to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) project management is a core competence of solicitors. This is set-out in its…
Set-up properly for project success
How can you improve the chances of a project delivering recognisable benefits within a defined timescale? One answer is to…
Capacity Planning For Law Firms
We have all experienced this: sometimes we have too much work to do and sometimes we don’t have enough. Individuals,…