As I geared up to co-chair the 14th annual program on legal project management (LPM) for the Practising Law Institute, I couldn’t help but marvel at the incredible evolution of this field since its inception in 2011. Back...more
Many firms around the world are implementing this approach called “legal project management,” while others know nothing about it. It has been described as a “must have” by some firms and legal departments and a fleeting fad...more
There’s a war for talent and many of the best law firms are winning. That’s why it’s critically important to engage your practice group members. One of the seemingly mundane but highly important tasks of a practice leader is...more
Sometimes LPM starts with just one lawyer working on an individual matter without the help of professional legal project managers. LPM, after all, is not always a firm-wide initiative. We have had many individual lawyers take...more
In part 5 of our series, we again have some words of wisdom from our Global LPM Summit speakers. This time the question was: What are the keys to getting lawyers to buy-in to the idea of working with legal project managers or...more
In part 3 of our series, we touted the one word response of our Global LPM Summit speaker David Rueff, Chief Solutions Officer for Baker Donelson when he used the word strategic to describe legal project management. In part...more
At the recent Global LPM Summit, we asked our speakers for a word or phrase that best captures LPM. We may be a little biased (okay, a lot), but one of the ones we really liked was the response from David Rueff, Chief...more
Like many good ideas, it started with a few early adopters. But now legal project management is more than just the flavor of the day. Around the globe, there are a growing number of professionals dedicating their time and...more