Best Practices for Using UTBMS Codes for Merger & Acquisition Transactions: Practical guidelines for attorneys, legal operations professionals, and e-billing specialists

Based on codes developed by the ABA Task Force on Legal Project Management in M&A Transactions, this book provides a vocabulary about the standard phases of all types of deals and shows how to capture that information in communications, timekeeping and defining the scope of work-- fundamental legal project management concepts. Sections on timekeeping and communication are relevant to all types of legal work.

Aileen Leventon and Jenny Anne Horst-Martz are seasoned legal project managers. Both have practiced law and are experts in improving the efficiency of legal work. Aileen was the COO of a practice group at Pricewaterhousecoopers for many years and now consults to law firms and law departments on improving the economics and results of legal work. Jenny Anne has been a project manager and budgeting specialist at some of the leading law firms in the world.