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
At the College of Law Practice Management Futures Conference March 12 – 13, the theme was networks – collaborative, neural, professional, and more. There were many excellent presentations and the sharing in the breakout...more
As I geared up to co-chair the 14th annual program on legal project management (LPM) for the Practising Law Institute, I couldn’t help but marvel at the incredible evolution of this field since its inception in 2011. Back...more
The landscape of artificial intelligence has undergone major developments since the release of ChatGPT just over a year ago, with 2023 marking a turning point with increased adoption across various sectors – especially...more
This year marked the beginning of a new conference*: the first-time-ever gathering of a combined 300 plus general counsel, in-house lawyers, and legal operations professionals. Further, there were several dozen law companies...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
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On February 10th, I was honored to co-chair the annual Practising Law Institute program on Project Management for Lawyers. There were over 600 people registered. For the first time, the in-house lawyers from corporate or...more
Many firms around the world are implementing this approach called “legal project management,” while others know nothing about it. It has been described as a “must have” by some firms and legal departments and a fleeting fad...more
It’s a legal project management conundrum in every medium and large law firm. How do you scale your team to service the needs of both your clients and your lawyers? There simply aren’t enough LPM resources to go around. Some...more
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
Sometimes LPM starts with just one lawyer working on an individual matter without the help of professional legal project managers. LPM, after all, is not always a firm-wide initiative. We have had many individual lawyers take...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 5 of our series, we again have some words of wisdom from our Global LPM Summit speakers. This time the question was: What are the keys to getting lawyers to buy-in to the idea of working with legal project managers or...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
Like many good ideas, it started with a few early adopters. But now legal project management is more than just the flavor of the day. Around the globe, there are a growing number of professionals dedicating their time and...more
In my recent interviews with speakers for the upcoming Global LPM Summit, a theme emerged. It seems that law firm clients were requesting, but not always receiving, legal project management (LPM) on their matters. There could...more
Susan Raridon Lambreth: I am interviewing Amanda Chaboryk, a Disputes and Litigation Data Lead at Norton Rose Fulbright in London. Amanda and I first met when she attended the LawVision LPM Roundtable in London in 2019 in her...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
The LPM community is growing. It’s what I expected years even prior to my interview with Bill Josten of Thomson Reuters in 2018. The article, entitled “Legal Project Management — What Is It and Why Should You Care?” has...more
Legal project management (LPM) can enhance client relationships, increase law firm profitability, provide transparency into law department budgeting, and boost matter team morale. But that’s not all. LPM also has the...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