Legal Project Management Practice 2020
Every year the International Institute of Legal Project Management (IILPM) surveys legal project managers and lawyers, asking questions about legal…
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…
Legal matter definition: structure and stories
If legal matters are not defined properly, then any subsequent attempts to plan and manage them are doomed to fail.…
Who is best placed to act as legal project manager?
Who is best placed to act as legal project manager? This is a question I get asked a lot when…
How to get legal teams working better on matters.
How to get legal teams working better on matters? This is one of the questions I get asked most often…
Questions busy lawyers ask about legal project management
Practising lawyers do not sit around all day thinking of legal project management. They are usually working hard on behalf…
In praise of quick fixes (and sticking plaster)
Sometimes it is better for legal teams to apply quick fixes to service delivery problems than defaulting to deep-dive analysis…
4-Steps for developing senior lawyer vision of legal project management
As noted in my last post, many practising lawyers are wary of ceding operational control of matters to legal project…
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…
IILPM 4-Phase Legal Project Management Framework
Many lawyers tell me that although they have done some project management activity as part of their work, they have…