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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] This post looks 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] Ms. Potter begins at the beginning and discusses the usefulness of breaking down the work into sub-projects to avoid "initiation block." In other words, a work-breakdown structure, although she admirably avoids...

Legal-project management has been getting a lot of press as the sluggish economy continues to create demand for more efficient legal services and predictable legal costs. Law firms are getting the message that to compete in this environment, they need to employ project-management best practices. The challenge is that lawyers typically do not receive project-management training. Demand is increasing for material targeted at the "accidental" legal-project manager who doesn't have the time or budget for extensive, formal project-management training. Jim Hassett's new Legal Project Management Quick Reference Guide ("Guide") addresses this need. Author: Jim Hassett Title: Legal Project Management Quick Reference Guide:...

There have been a lot of good posts on legal project management (LPM) in the Blogosphere over the past couple of months that I've starred, tagged, taken notes on, and then neglected because other things have taken my attention hostage. So, before my attention is recaptured, I'm taking this opportunity to dump into one post the various tidbits I've been saving to share with you. These are in no particular order, I'm just grabbing them from Evernote. I'm probably breaking whole lists of blogging best practices with this post, but you were warned in the title. Steven Levy weilds his B.S....

The value of legal project management is not lost on clients. Corporate consumers of legal services increasingly demand accurate estimates, alternative billing, and transparency. To help ensure these requirements are met, some clients require that outside counsel provide detailed project plans for each legal matter they work on for the corporation. I've been looking for public examples of such requirements and will post them here as I come across them.Most recently, I came across the Legal Billing and Case Management Requirements of the he Association of Bay Area Governments Pooled Liability Assurance Network Corporation (ABAG PLAN).[1]  Reading the following requirements it is easy...