Overcoming resistance to planning legal matters
Research shows (see here for example) there is a direct positive correlation between the time and effort spent on planning…
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…
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…
Why its called legal project management
I have read a few comments on social media recently where it has been said there is nothing so special…