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…
Abilities, Skills and Attributes of Legal Project Managers
What attributes should firms look for in a legal project manager? This question was posed recently on the Legal Support…
Prince2 for Lawyers
Prince2 is the leading standard project methodology and one of its key principles is that of tailoring the methodology to…
Feedback and review from legal project management training
Everyone seems to agree in principle that it is good practice to hold project reviews, although it also seems relatively…
SRA: Project Management is a core competence for solicitors
According to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) project management is a core competence of solicitors. This is set-out in its…
Improving solicitors’ project management competence by activity based learning
According to a survey on the web site of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), 40% of solicitors intend to adopt…
Applying Legal Project Management for improving productivity and supporting Alternative Fee Arrangements
Surveys of lawyers at smaller law firms (less than 20 fee earners) in the U.S. by LexisNexis have shown that…
An Introduction to Value Stream Mapping for Lawyers and Business Development Staff: Part 3 – implementing improvements
A future state value stream map (VSM) can be a daunting prospect, likely as it is to consist of new…
An Introduction to Value Stream Mapping for Lawyers and Business Development Staff: Part 1 – mapping the current state.
Recently, a number of law firms in the U.K have announced the completion of value stream mapping exercises covering particular…
An Introduction to Value Stream Mapping for Lawyers and Business Development Staff: Part 2 – visualising a future state
It will be recalled from part one of this short series that the primary purpose of a ‘current state’ value…