Project Management for Lawyers

Number of Pages: 115

In a highly competitive fee-focused environment, project management can be your law firm’s lifeline. Managing Partner’s Project Management for Lawyers report provides a structured approach to planning, pricing and managing legal work that will boost profitability and deliver superior value to your clients. It aims to:-

• Demonstrate the value of applying project management to a legal practice;
• Explain basic project management principles and how to apply them within your law firm;
• Provide a simple legal project management framework;
• Describe key tools and techniques to support the framework;
• Discuss legal project management as a pricing and business development strategy;
• Show how lawyers can manage matter profitability and demonstrate value to clients;
• Guide lawyers in overcoming the challenges in managing a matter profitably (time, scope and cost); and,
• Share practical advice on how to develop and implement a legal project management programme within your firm.

Real-life in-depth case studies provide valuable insight into the successful legal project management programmes of Dechert LLP, Eversheds LLP, Seyfarth Shaw LLP and McCarthy Tétrault.

A case study from the Royal Bank of Canada is also included to provide the a client's perspective on the value of legal project management.

Project Management for Lawyers also comes with a complimentary CDRom packed with useful forms, templates, checklists and frameworks that can be used immediately in planning and executing your own project management programme. These include:-

• A generic work plan;
• A sample staffing profile;
• A sample agenda for a project kick-off meeting;
• A sample roles and responsibilities sheet;
• A client satisfaction review questionnaire;
• A project risk log;
• A sample change request form;
• A sample monitoring worksheet;
• An example of an agenda for a lessons learned session;
• An example of how to calculate leverage on matter profitability;
• A completed monitoring worksheet; and
• A work plan for an asset purchase.