Structured approaches to operational change in legal services
Identifying, implementing and sustaining operational change in legal services is hard to do. The fact is implementing and sustaining operational…
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…
Building Legal Project Management Skills and Organisational Capability
I have co-authored an e-book with Todd Hutchison, another founder member of the International Institute for Legal Project Management (IILPM)…
Why practising lawyers should cede more operational control to legal project managers
The recent survey conducted by the International Institute of Legal Project Management (IILPM) confirms that practising lawyers are wary of…
The Strategy Gap
It is taken as given that law firms need a well-defined business strategy to succeed. But how many firms implement…
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…
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…
Narrowing the disconnect between law firms and their clients
A much commented upon legal survey report from LexisNexis UK and Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge has…
LPM Competence: free self-assessment and development plan
I have updated my self-assessment questionnaire about legal project management skills. It is free to download here. The main purpose…
How clients can help their lawyers deliver value
Clients want their lawyers to deliver value. Unfortunately, most lawyers seem to misunderstand what this means in practice. For example,…