By Co-Founding Principals Susan Raridon Lambreth and Joseph Altonji Co-author Susan Raridon Lambreth wrote an article for the American Bar Association Journal (ABA Journal) in 1989 about the future of law firms over the next...more
Are you a Practice Group or Department Leader in your firm? Or, an industry or client team leader? As I wrote about in the second edition of The Practice Group Leader’s Handbook for Success, you may focus on the magnitude of...more
In Midtown Manhattan, the temperatures soared to a spring-like 50 degrees when nearly 400 people attended this year’s Practising Law Institute (PLI) on Project Management for Lawyers on February 8, 2023. For the second time,...more
According to most economists, we’re not in a recession, at least right now. However, the only certainty appears to be uncertainty. How will law firms achieve growth in an unstable environment? We’ve reviewed two leading...more
2/7/2023
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Baylor Law’s Executive LL.M. in Litigation Management is the only such program in the country. Their first class in the fall of 2018 included in-house counsel, private practice (from plaintiff and defense firms), and...more
LPM is going places, according to the speakers at the recent LPM Global Summit. If you missed the Summit, replays are available here for another few weeks. Keeping with the theme of the last few blogs, we asked our Summit...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
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
Whoever said go big or go home surely wasn’t talking about legal project management (LPM). But maybe they should have been. Though the LPM community is growing year by year, many of the initiatives started out slowly. Yet if...more
Can your practice group have a direction without goals? Not likely. As we discussed in Part 2, good performance starts with clear direction. This means SMART goals. But, it’s not easy to get a group of lawyers to develop and...more
To implement your practice group vision, you need a good plan. In Part 1 of this three-part series, we proposed an approach to help practice groups implement sound practice plans. The components included management feedback,...more
On the way to the upcoming Global LPM Summit, some interesting themes are emerging. There will be over 75 speakers sharing their best tips and strategies. After interviewing 39 of them myself, my mind is spinning with the...more
In Part 1 of this series, we discussed how practice groups must rethink their strategy to position themselves in the emerging post-pandemic market and formulate quarter-by-quarter implementation strategies that continue their...more
Alternative legal service providers (ALSPs) are mentioned weekly across the legal press. While they may be only a small portion of the legal services provided to companies currently (the Thomson Reuters ALSP report in...more
Despite social distancing, working remotely, and the reeling economic environment, law firms must continue to provide exceptional service to their clients. Even as the pandemic rages on, the pressure that clients feel...more
In recent weeks, the headlines say it all. Law firms are doing everything possible to minimize the economic downturn and the ongoing financial woes created by the COVID-19 pandemic. How’s that playing out? Law firms and other...more
Legal Project Management (LPM) is an essential skill for lawyers and other legal professionals. It can help ensure greater client satisfaction, more profitable matters and more satisfying work. This workshop provides a...more
The LPM Institute is pleased to offer a comprehensive two-day workshop on legal project management. Register today for this workshop and learn the fundamentals to efficiently and effectively manage your matters or...more
The LPM Institute and LawVision are pleased to offer a comprehensive two-day workshop: LPM LaunchPad™ Certificate in Fundamentals of Legal Project Management.
Register today for this workshop and learn the fundamentals to...more
9/3/2019
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Those of you who have been keeping your heads down for the last five to ten years hoping that the latest “fad” would go away should pay attention. As evidenced by the record number of attendees (well over half of which were...more
I recently got a call from a firm that wanted to talk about changing their practice management structure. They had questions about how to improve the selection and accountability of the practice group leaders (PGLs) and...more
Virtually every article kicking off 2018 has talked about the “new” world that law firms are facing: more work going to in-house counsel and alternative legal service providers (or ALSPs), increasing pressures on law firms to...more
Law firms of all sizes are facing pricing pressures like never before. There is a tendency for many partners to simply agree to the discounts requested by clients — even for high value legal matters, rather than push to show...more