Helping lawyers change the way they work
How can legal project practitioners, acting as operational legal team leaders, help lawyers change the way they work? To effect…
Legal Project Managers: a call to arms
Legal project managers should make greater use of their implied authority – they have nothing to lose but their chains.…
Lawyers, Gantt Charts and the Search for Strategy
There should be no doubt that lawyers can become (and in some cases already are) able legal project managers. A…
Skills training: key to getting better at anything.
How to get better at anything - sports, music, law or legal project management? There is a considerable body of…
Build a pause button into your matter management processes
One tactical approach to help implement legal project management successfully is to build and promote a focus point which everyone…
How should you start implementing legal project management?
You are asked to be the operational lead for implementing legal project management in your law firm or department. How…
Top 10 value-added services rated by in-house lawyers
What value added services do in-house lawyers rate most highly? The Society for Computers and Law has come up with…
The Neglected Art Of Planning
This is a guest post by Richard Copley, a change and operations manager who has led teams of legal project…
Avoiding irrelevance of Prince II for legal project management certification
Prince II (Projects In Controlled Environments) is probably the world’s most popular structured project management method. I am a certified…
Legal cost and matter management illustrated
Earned Value Management (EVM) is a project control technique which combines measurements of scope, schedule and costs. Applying an EVM-like…