Law Firm PM Watch: McCarthy Tétrault Highlights its Project Management Capabilities

On this page, the firm explains its project management approach:\n\n

The basic premise behind our approach is that to give our clients what they're asking for, we must manage their mandates as projects. That is, legal mandates must be performed and delivered while managing the constraints of cost, time and scope -- without compromising quality. Working together as a team with our clients, we identify and plan for these competing constraints.

The page goes on to explain that its project management program is based upon \"the general principles of the Project Management Institute\" and that its \"senior partners are working with a certified PMI project management professional to develop training and tools for lawyers in all of our offices.\" 

This is the strongest endorsement of applying standard project management to a law firm that I've read since Morris, Manning & Martin created the position of Director of Legal Project Management, and hired PMI-member Linda Klausing away from Home Depot to fill it. (that's right, a PM with a background in retail to head up a large law firm's PM department). They also registered the domain legalprojectmanagement.com before I thought to (back in January, 2005, in case you thought nobody was thinking of LPM before last year). Their registration expires in January next year. Perhaps they'll let their renewal slip and I can snag it away from them. ;-)