The Lawyer's Guide to Legal Project Management

Effectively implementing project management has become a key ambition for many firms across the world. The interest project management has garnered from the legal sector is not surprising; the range of benefits it offers are extensive and impactful; including reducing costs, enabling more efficient commodity work, and creating more accurate budgeting forecasts. However, despite the general consensus on its value adoption rates have been slow across the sector – only a handful of top firms have successfully implemented LPM into their practices, and are reaping the benefits. The slow adoption rates create a real opening for a competitive advantage through Legal Project Management, even at a basic starting level, as according to Jim Hassett even “glacial progress can produce new business when you are competing with firms that are making no progress at all”. Featuring expert analysis on the form and function of LPM from leading industry experts, and case studies from top law firms on effective implementation and take-up, this title offers a robust overview of project management functions in the legal sector.

Jim Hassett Author and Founder, LegalBizDev. Karen Dalton Senior enterprise project manager at Seyfarth Shaw. John Duggan John is senior legal project manager at Seyfarth Shaw. Helen Bunker Helena is a divisional director of private law at Blake Morgan. Barbara J Boake Partner, McCarthy Tetrault LLP. Rick A Kathuria National director, projectmanagement office and legal logistics, Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP Antony Smith Founder of Legal Project Management Limited. Zena Applebaum Director of competitive intelligence at Bennett Jones LLP. Lann Wasson Senior manager of knowledge management, Husch Blackwell LLP Catherine Alman MacDonagh, JD Catherine Alman MacDonagh, JD is a Legal Lean Sigma Black Belt and a certified Six Sigma Green Belt.