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…
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…
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…
Worried about managing cost of complex matters when pricing by value? Consider Agile techniques
It is not uncommon to hear lawyers say that, while they like the concept of value pricing, it could not…
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…