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…
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…
At the sharp end – Legal Project Management distinguished and in context.
In my last post I caused confusion to some by referring to Product Management in addition to Legal Project Management.…
Legal Project Management – a note in defence of the ‘legal’ prefix
Over the last few years in the U.S. A and Canada the concept of Legal Project Management has become widely…
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…
Applying Legal Project Management for improving productivity and supporting Alternative Fee Arrangements
Surveys of lawyers at smaller law firms (less than 20 fee earners) in the U.S. by LexisNexis have shown that…
Some small steps towards implementing legal project management (and which improve productivity along the way)
People who work in law firm knowledge management, business development and operational delivery sometimes say to me that they can…
Project Implementation: Start with a good pilot for a better chance of reaching your destination.
I can think of several instances where it would have been really beneficial for a law firm to run a…