Tips and tools for good legal costs services.
The purpose of the recent second edition of the Legal Ombudsman’s Guidance on Good Costs Practice is to encourage solicitors…
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…
Productive and enjoyable legal project meetings
Most people do not enjoy meetings at work. We all know the reasons why: they tend to be rather negative…
Paralegals: what they do now and might be doing in future.
I am fascinated about how different professionals fit together as part of legal service delivery teams. We hear a lot about…
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…
Legal Education: a place for legal project management?
How can law schools prepare their students for the changing demands and expectations of a 21st century career? This is…
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…
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…
Where to implement legal project management?
The benefits of applying legal project management (LPM) successfully are well known and include things such as: improved scoping, which…
Millennial Lawyers: disruptors from within?
‘Millennials’, otherwise known as ‘Generation Y’, is the demographic label given to people born between 1982 – 2004. At the…