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 Project Management Practice 2020
Every year the International Institute of Legal Project Management (IILPM) surveys legal project managers and lawyers, asking questions about legal…
Overcoming resistance to planning legal matters
Planning legal matters properly is essential, but there is often quite a lot of resistance against spending time on matter…
How to become an adaptive project professional in legal services
The Association for Project Management (APM) has released a short report called The Adaptive Project Professional. This report, which is…
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…
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…
Reflective solicitors recognising project management skills
As part of the new professional competence regime for solicitors, founded on the premise of self-evaluation and self-assessment, the Solicitors…
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…