10 Essential Project Management Terms for Legal Project Teams
This article provides a list of 10 essential project management terms, along with some tips about how legal project teams…
Gantt Charts for Legal Service Work
Gantt charts have been a core project management tool ever since their invention by Henry Gantt in the 1910s.…
Stakeholder Analysis in Three Easy Steps
Stakeholder Analysis is something which is often not done properly or skipped entirely during project planning. I speak from experience…
Reference Class Forecasting for Estimating Cost and Duration of Legal Matters
Providing estimates of matter cost and duration is an essential part of the legal project manager role. Whenever you are…
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,…
The IILPM’s Legal Project Management Maturity Model
The International Institute of Legal Project Management (IILPM) has recently published its Legal Project Management Maturity model. The model is…
Responding to increasing demand for legal project management services
The demand for legal project management (LPM) services continues to increase, especially here in the U.K. In this post I…
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…
Starting legal project management development in law firms
If you develop, or are helping to develop, a new legal project management practice in your law firm, what should…