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It is that time of the year again: this is the time when the blawgosphere looks back at the past year and prognosticates what the year ahead holds for the legal industry. Those of you who follow this blog will know that I'm not generally one for reading tea leaves. This year, however, I have decided to share my thoughts on how I think LPM will develop over the next few years, based upon the experiences of other industries and the history of modern project management. I hope you find it interesting and I wish you and yours health, happiness,...

The International Legal Technology Association has been at the forefront of legal-project management. I have covered ILTA conferences, webinars, and white papers in the past on this blog. Currently, ILTA is holding its 2011 "Rev-Elation" conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Two fellow leaders of the Project Management Institute's (PMI) Legal Project Management Community of Practice (LPM CoP) are presenting at this years ILTA conference.Kim Craig, the Communications Lead for the LPM CoP, is the Director of Seyfarth Shaw LLP's Project Management Office. On Tuesday, she participated in a panel presentation with Pamela Woldow, Partner and General Counsel at Edge International, Inc., and Andrew Terrett, Director...

Can law firms manage large projects effectively in the cloud? Or will physically disconnected teams lack the cohesiveness needed to maintain the esprit de corps required to push the project to success? Brian Sommer, author of the Services & Software Safari blog on ZDNET is skeptical. In a post titled "Teams in the (Troubled) Cloud" he writes: "Small projects might be more manageable in the cloud but more study is needed on the ability of really large projects to work well in the cloud."To grossly over-summarize his post, the issue with cloud-based projects is that having all the collaborative technology in the...