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On February 9th, the Project Management Institute's Legal Project Management Community of Practice will host a webinar on how to avoid common mistakes when communicating to influence lawyers, presented by  Skip Weisman, owner of Weisman Success Resources, Inc. Title: "7 Deadliest Sins of Communicating with Lawyers"  Format/Location: On-line webinar. Cost: Free to PMI members. PMI membership required. Organizations: PMI Legal Project Management Community of Practice Description: This webinar will unveil the most damaging communication mistakes project managers make when communicating to influence lawyers. Participants will also learn the three primary reasons these communication mistakes occur and the various contexts in...

On November 3rd, the Project Management Institute's Legal Project Management Community of Practice will host a webinar on how to brainstorm to create a legal-project plan, presented by Mark Lassiter, a partner at Davis Miles PLLC, and Amanda P., Director of Practice Technology at Davis Miles PLLC. Title: "How to Brainstorm to Create a Legal Project Plan"  Format/Location: On-line webinar. Cost: Free to PMI members. PMI membership required. Organizations: PMI Legal Project Management Community of Practice Description: In this session, we will take a hypothetical case from the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, Dixon v. Providential Life Ins. Co., and...

I am a big fan of project-based education. It turns students into problem solvers. The sense of accomplishment in completing a project, reaching a distinct goal, is far greater than that provided by doing well on a quiz. The planning and time-management skills alone are as valuable as the knowledge acquired. Therefore, I strongly support initiatives such as the Project Management Institute's Education Foundation and efforts to convince the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts to add a project management merit badge.Recently, a colleague shared with me yet another example of the power for projects to motivate children. My colleague's 13-year-old son just...

On September 29th, the Project Management Institute's (PMI) Legal Project Management Community of Practice (LPM CoP) is hosting a Webinar on "Implementing Legal Project Management." It is free for all PMI member, but you must be a member of PMI to attend. Title: "Implementing Legal Project Management"  Format/Location: LPM CoP Virtual Community site webinar. Cost: Free for PMI members. You must be a member of PMI to attend.  Organizations: PMI Legal Project Management Community of Practice Description: Join Barbara J. Boake and Rick A. Kathuria PMP, the authors of the book "Legal Project Management" to hear about the implementation of...

Pamela Woldow and Doug Richardson, both partners at Edge International, discuss the law firm manager's role in the evolution of legal-project management (LPM) in an article appearing in the July/August issue of Legal Management, a journal published by the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA). The article is titled Adopting Legal Project Management: Why LPM is Here to Stay and the Law Firm Manager's Role in its Evolution.The article begins by noting the how the LPM trend has moved beyond large, early-adopter firms, and is beginning to take root in smaller firms. The authors summarize the main reasons for increased adoption...

On Tuesday, August 9th, I will present a Webinar hosted by the Project Management Institute's Legal Project Management Community of Practice (PMI LPM CoP), in which I will discusses the how to avoid redundant project-management costs in electronic-discovery projects. The webinar is free to all PMI members, but you must be a PMI member to view it. Title: "Avoiding Redundant Project-Management Costs in Electronic-Discovery Projects"  Format/Location: Webinar. Cost: Free for PMI members. Not available to non-members.   Organizations: PMI Legal Project Management Community of Practice Description: E-discovery projects are well suited for project-management initiatives as they benefit from access to...

I recently had the pleasure of co-authoring an article with Allen Gurney, the Director of Professional Service, eDiscovery for Capax Global. The article is entitled The Seven Deadly Sins of Implementing an E-mail Archive System and was originally published as in Technolawyer's Technofeature newsletter.You can download a print-ready copy of the article here:2011-04-12 Easton-Gurney-Archive Implementation-TF 04-12-11.pdfFor the convenience of those reading this in their Web browsers, RSS readers, or e-book readers, the entire text is below.SYNOPSISA lawsuit here, a lawsuit there. Pretty soon you're talking real money. An archive system that automatically captures electronically stored information (ESI) across your organization can significantly...

On March 15, 2011, Pamela Woldow of Edge International presented a CLE course on implementing legal-project management, which is now available on demand from the ALI-ABA Knowlege Portal. Title: "LPM Update: Lessons Learned in Implementing Legal Project Management 2011 (Video)"  Format/Location: On-demand video. Cost: 139 USD.  Organizations: American Law InstituteAmerican Bar AssociationNALP -- The Association for Legal Career Professionals Description: Now that legal project management (LPM) has established itself in today's economically challenging legal landscape, some real world lessons are emerging as law firms grapple with how to implement their LPM initiatives smoothly, effectively, and within budget. Please join Pamela Woldow of...

This post was originally published on the PMI Legal-Project Management Community of Practice members-only blog.Most lawyers would benefit from the project-management practice of decomposing their legal matters--breaking down the work into more manageable and easier-to-measure components. An important tool for doing this is the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). A WBS is an excellent device to help ensure you have accounted for all work to be done for a matter and is an effective communication aid when discussing a matter with your team members and clients. It is an important part of scoping out your work and an early step in...

'Tis the time to look back at 2010 and take stock of what we've accomplished and where we could use some improvement...Actually, here in Taiwan, the real New Year's celebrations don't occur until next month. But, New Years or not, a palindrome date[1] is as good a time as any to look at your life backwards and forwards, realign your priorities, and resolve to make positive changes. My personal, LPM-related New Years Resolution is to become a more efficient delegator.When I look back at 2010, I am proud of what I've accomplished for my clients and myself. But one...