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

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