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Next Stage Legal Project Management: Future-proof your Matter Management

Next Stage Legal Project Management: Future-proof your Matter Management

Author: Ignaz Fuesgen
Publisher: Globe Law and Business
ISBN: 9781787424180
Published In: March 2021
Format: Hardback , 272 pages
Jurisdiction: International ? Disclaimer:
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Corporate legal teams and law firms have made significant investments in their legal project management programmes over the past few years. It is time to take stock and, more importantly, envision future interventions. What are the decisive strategies and actions to expedite the value creation of those programmes?

In this book, an international group of 26 experts comprising private practitioners, in-house counsel, technologists, legal operations managers and legal management consultants offer unique perspectives and insights to help you take your legal project management programmes to the next stage. Topics covered include:

Methodology;
People management;
Communication and interaction;
Data and performance; and
Implementation of legal project management programmes.

Written by practitioners for practitioners, this title will benefit General Counsel, legal COOs, managing partners, practice leaders and other executives running legal services delivery teams who have initiated legal project management programmes and seek new ideas and inspiration for more value creation. Practical and illustrative examples, case studies and many shared experiences direct the reader towards the next level of proficiency in legal project management – future-proofing your matter management.

Key takeaways:

A variety of ready to implement suggestions and ideas about how to provide LPM services in 'best of breed' fashion, in order to add value to organisations, reduce costs and improve efficiency
Learn the most crucial skills in LPM, including the key psychology based principles that enable strong leadership, and which organisational structures and mentality help them to flourish
Improve operational efficiency through a systematic approach for categorising and managing matter and task level data; turning existing legal processes into effective digital workflows; and the the process mapping and elimination of wastes and frustrations in your practice
Empower legal professionals to be organised, quick, accurate and effective through the introduction of AI technologies into LPM systems
Narrow down the search for LPM tech tools that match your need through a review of the existing tools used by LPM professionals
Use Kano’s model to categorise and prioritise client feedback in order to provide improvements that will deliver the greatest value to you and your clients
Learn how LPM and BD can engage in an inter-departmental partnership to advance firm objectives, drive revenue and enhance client service delivery and profitability
Insights on the important contributions Legal Design makes to a traditional LPM approach

Introduction and Foreword

Ignaz Fuesgen - smartvokat

Methodology

Value paradigm

Aileen Leventon - QLex Consulting

Process improvement and legal project management

Karen Dunn Skinner - Gimbal

Waterfall vs Agile

Niall Good - Deloitte

Evolving legal project management through Legal Design

Jasmin Bejaoui - Reinvent Law, Sebastian Schaub - Baker McKenzie

The human side

Team diversity and intercultural competence

Jeanne-Mari Retief - CALIBRICS

Professional skills

Nina Gramcko, Oliver Hofmann - Noerr

Applying the 9 intelligences in legal project management

Anna Marra - IE Law School; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Creating a high performing legal team

Todd Hutchison - The International Institute of Legal Project Management

Communication and team interaction

Connecting stakeholders

Anna-Katharina Horn - reThinkLegal

Teams with purpose

Karol Valencia - Electronic Identification

Client listening

David Skinner - Gimbal

Collaboration platforms

Larry Bridgesmith - Vanderbilt Law School

The power of workflows in legal project management

Christian Schuhmann, Julien Weiler - smartvokat

Data and performance

Task codes and KPIs

Kevin Bielawski, Lann Wasson - Husch Blackwell

Costing and fee models

Jim Hannigan - Coblentz

Risk management

Naomi Thompson, Julie Mathys - Exigent Group

Enterprise search

Dries Cronje - Deep Learning Café

Implementation – what are the implementation-related issues and insights from previous rollouts?

The legal project management equation – LPM in-house vs LPM in law firms

Helga Butcher - Barclays

Implementing legal project management for small law firms

Sara Rayment - Inkling Legal Design

Change management aspects of a legal project management rollout

C.J. Nicastro - S&P Global Inc

Cross-departmental collaboration, innovation and revenue

Anshoo Patel, Mitchell Sterling - Blank Rome

LPM helps the modern lawyer become equipped for the changing world of legal practice. This book offers a wealth of practical guidance and inspiration.

- Todd Hutchison, Chair, International Institute of Legal Project Management

As a professor of law and trainer in legal project management (LPM), I can affirm there is no text dealing with LPM on par with Next Stage Legal Project Management: Future-proof Your Matter Management. It is the required text in my law school courses at Vanderbilt Law School and provided to each person I train in the skills and techniques of this vital legal service. In over ten years of working to deploy LPM in law firms, legal departments and law schools, the time for LPM has come and this book will show how it will be done to benefit clients and the lawyers who serve them.

- Larry Bridgesmith, Vanderbilt University Law School, Accelerate Insite LLC, Legal Alignment LLC