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The "Other" Legal Project Management Group on LinkedIn

By Paul C. Easton on January 19, 2012 11:58 PM | Comments | No TrackBacks
Patrick DiDomenico, Director of Knowledge Management at Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart, has launched a new group on LinkedIn "for all those interested in legal project management." As many readers know, I created LinkedIn group on the same topic a while back and later donated it to the Project Management Institute to help it promote its Legal Project Management Community of Practice. While DiDomenico's group competes with PMI LPM CoP group, I firmly believe that the more exposure given LPM, the better, and wish DiDomenico and his group the success. Some other LPM-focused groups on LinkedIn include:Project Management for Legal Departments...

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PMI Knowledge Shelf Publishes Article on Avoiding Redundant Project-Management Costs in E-Discovery Projects

By Paul C. Easton on September 2, 2011 3:58 AM | Comments | 3 TrackBacks
Today, the Project Management Institute (PMI) has published what I think is its first article on legal-project management. The article is a revised, edited, and formatted version of a post I made to this blog almost a year ago. PMI members can obtain the article for free from PMI's Knowledge Shelf. The direct link to the article is: https://www.pmi.org/en/Knowledge-Center/Knowledge-Shelf/~/media/Members/Knowledge%20Shelf/Easton_2011%20(3).ashxA recording of a related Webinar that I presented for the PMI Legal Project Management Community of Practice is available to all PMI members at the Community's Web site.Anyone, PMI members or not, can still read the original post on this blog for free.Related...

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PMI's Legal Project Management Community of Practice's New Public Forums

By Paul C. Easton on August 18, 2011 10:00 PM | Comments | 6 TrackBacks
As far as I know, with its more than 1,000 members, the Project Management Institute's Legal Project Management Community of Practice (LPM CoP) is the largest organization dedicated to the art and science of legal-project management. Its webinars, discussion groups, and other resources, however, are only available to PMI members. Given that most lawyers and legal-support professionals are unfamiliar with PMI, this has been a barrier to the raising awareness of LPM and the LPM CoP among the legal community.  Fortunately, the LPM CoP has launched a social-networking program to raise awareness of the Community and LPM in general. To...

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Prezi, Project Management Training, and Presentation Risk Management

By Paul C. Easton on April 3, 2011 10:00 PM | Comments | No TrackBacks
On February 10th, I co-taught two lessons for the Organization of Legal Professional's (OLP) Project Management for Litigation Professionals course. I enjoyed the experience and the course went well, but I re-learned some valuable lessons about preparation and risk planning for remote presentations. Since so much of project management involves communication skills, which often includes making presentations of one form or another, I thought I would share my experiences and lessons learned from this event. Something Will Always Go Wrong With the TechnologyFew things prove Murphy's law better than a power-point presentation. When you memorize a speech and deliver it without slides,...

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Making Your Screen Shot Count, OLP UPDATE

By Paul C. Easton on March 14, 2011 2:56 PM | Comments | No TrackBacks
For those of you with an interest in e‑discovery, be sure to check out my article in this month's OLP Update that I co-wrote with Tom Klaff, CEO of Surety LLC. The article discusses how to defensibly collect Web pages and social media posts when risk of spoliation is high or it is infeasible to collect from the Web host. To jump directly to the article, click on the following link:http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1rfd6/OLPUPDATE/resources/34.htm...

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Off-topic Sunday: Legal-Project Management on Hub Pages

By Paul C. Easton on January 30, 2011 4:46 PM | Comments | 1 TrackBack
Hubpages now has a page on legal-project management. Unfortunately, its content is a rip off of the Wikipedia article on LPM, with some slight modifications to the wording, and no citations or links to primary sources. This serves as a good example of why I've long lost interest in sites like Hubpages. Hubpages seems to be modeled after Squidoo. Authors submit content. Hubpages helps monetize this content with ads, sharing a portion of the revenue with the authors. I was among the first users of Squidoo, which is better designed and more feature-rich than Hubpages. I made some pocket change from...

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LPM Invisible to Wolfram Alpha

By Paul C. Easton on January 27, 2011 11:27 PM | Comments | 1 TrackBack
While the LPM content on Qwiki may not be the most in depth, at least they have something and it only went live a few days ago. Wolfram Alpha, on the other hand, turns up nothing, providing "project management" as the closest interpretation. Fair enough and the results give you some general employment statistics for the project-management occupation in the United States, but it is disappointing that it interprets "project management" as "construction management", so I'm not sure how applicable the stats are to legal-project managers or project managers in other industries. Even more disappointing was that when you change the...

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Technolawyer Launches New Newsletter: Litigation World

By Paul C. Easton on January 14, 2011 12:34 AM | Comments | No TrackBacks
A couple days ago, the Technolawyer Community launched a new electronic newsletter titled Litigation World. The newsletter will be edited by litigator Kimberlee (Kim) Gunning of Terrell Marshall & Daudt and will follow the format of their popular Blawgworld newsletter. According to the announcement I received: [E]ach issue will contain a brief but useful tip relating to electronic discovery, litigation strategy, or litigation technology. In addition, Kim will link to the most important litigation articles published on the Web during the previous week. I've subscribed to the Technolawyer Community's newsletter for about nine years and have been submitting posts...

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PM Credentials & LPM - ILTA White Paper and 2010 Survey on Legal Project Management, Part IV

By Paul C. Easton on October 30, 2010 2:13 AM | Comments | 6 TrackBacks
It's time for another post on the value of project-management credentials, a topic on which many of my readers have strong opinions. This post continues my discussion of the International Legal Technology Association's (ILTA) recently released white paper on legal-project management.[1] In the first post in this series I discussed Pamela Woldow's article on how legal technologists can use LPM to enhance their position in their law firms.[2] The second post looked at an article by Jennifer Potter, which discusses her firm's rollout of Microsoft Windows 7/Office 2010.[3] In the third post, I discussed three articles: Laura Livecchi's discussion on how to leverage legal-project management philosophies...

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ILTA White Paper and 2010 Survey on Legal Project Management, Part III

By Paul C. Easton on October 28, 2010 9:39 PM | Comments | 4 TrackBacks
This post continues my discussion of the International Legal Technology Association's (ILTA) recently released white paper on legal-project management.[1] In the first post in this series I discussed Pamela Woldow's article on how legal technologists can use LPM to enhance their position in their law firms.[2] The second post looked at an article by Jennifer Potter, a Project Manager at Fish & Richardson, which discusses her firm's rollout of Microsoft Windows 7/Office 2010.[3] This post covers four more articles from this white paper. Laura Livecchi, a Senior Project Manager at InOutsource, marries legal-project management to business-process improvement in her article discussing how to leverage...

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