Some small steps towards implementing legal project management (and which improve productivity along the way)
People who work in law firm knowledge management, business development and operational delivery sometimes say to me that they can…
How project management can help develop lawyers’ leadership skills
I received a thoughtful enquiry about legal project management (LPM) training recently from a young lawyer. She had done some…
Legal service needs of SME’s
Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SME's) make up 99.9% of private sector businesses in the U.K, with a combined turnover…
Set-up properly for project success
How can you improve the chances of a project delivering recognisable benefits within a defined timescale? One answer is to…
Capacity Planning For Law Firms
We have all experienced this: sometimes we have too much work to do and sometimes we don’t have enough. Individuals,…
How to convince clients of your legal project management capability
Clients expect their legal advisors to manage their matters efficiently. New and prospective clients in particular will be thinking, if…
Cost management, project management and matter profitability
The requirement to file cost budgets in civil litigation is enforced strictly, as the Mitchell case showed. However filing a…
Seven books to help you with legal project management
I regularly get asked to recommend resources about legal project management (LPM). Here is a run through of some books…
Four practical steps for improving the effectiveness of lawyer-client communications
According to George Bernard Shaw The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place Given…
Noise, signal, action: how lawyers can get better at estimating (and other aspects of practising law)
Lawyers are just as poor at predicting the future as economists. In his book ‘The Signal and the Noise’ Nate…