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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...

The Organization of Legal Professionals is offering a three-week, on-line course on legal-project management in October, taught by Steven Levy. If you sign-up within the next two days, you can still take advantage of the early-bird registration rate. Title: "Legal Project Management: Control Costs, Meet Schedules, Manage Risks"  Format/Location: Live, on-line course. . Cost: Cost.  Regular Tuition: $549.00 Early Bird Registration (Offer good until September 8, 2011): $389.00 members; $425.00 non-members (includes one year free OLP membership) Organizations: Organization of Legal Professionals Description (copied from OLP's Web site): Learn Legal Project Management from the guy who wrote the book! Steven...

On May 19th the New York City Bar will offer a CLE presentation by Pamela Woldow that will demonstrate legal-project management best practices through a case study. TITLE: LEGAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT: A CASE STUDY Format/Location: Live workshop at: New York City Bar, 42 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036. Cost: Free for members and attorneys from sponsoring law firms; 60 USD for everyone else. Organizations: New York City Bar; Edge International Description: In the changing face of today's legal profession, the adoption of Legal Project Management (LPM) best practices by cutting edge law firms is materially improving their...

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,...

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...

On March 30-31st, the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) will present a two-day training program on project management for the in-house law department. The program is only open to in-house counsel. Title: "PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR THE IN-HOUSE LAW DEPARTMENT"  Format/Location: Live at the Executive Leadership Center, Boston University School of Management in Boston, MA. Cost: Cost. $1,632 (members), $1,927 (non-members) Organizations: Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Description: Projects are increasingly the way that work gets done in companies of all types and sizes. In this new seminar you will learn the strategic dimensions of project management, including critical aspects of project...

On Tuesday, March 15th, the Project Management Institute's Legal Project Management Community of Practice will host a Webinar presented by Jim Hassett, Ph D., the author of the book "Legal Project Management Quick Reference Guide", who will discusses the eight key issues in Legal Project Management. The webinar is free to all PMI members. Title: "Eight Key Issues in Legal Project Management"  Format/Location: Text. Cost: Free for PMI members. Not available to non-members.   Organizations: PMI Legal Project Management Community of Practice LegalBizDev Description: Please Join Jim Hassett Ph D., the author of the book "Legal Project Management Quick Reference...

On April 28th, the New York City Bar will host a CLE presentation by Aileen Leventon on how lawyers can use legal-project management to advance their careers. Title: "IMPLEMENTING PROJECT MANAGEMENT TO ADVANCE YOUR CAREER"  Format/Location: Live workshop held at the New York City Bar, 42 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036. Cost: Cost. Free to members and attorneys from sponsoring law firms. 60 USD for everyone else. Organizations: New York City Bar; QLex Consulting Description: Legal project management enables associates to be more effective when working on teams and helps improve overall efficiency and quality of work. This program...

I realize a few weeks have gone by with no posts here. Besides the normal rush and pressures of client projects, there have been a number of other work and personal projects that have put this blog, and my social media activities in general, on hold. First, I've been busy helping to launch AbsoluteProof® WebSeal,™ a Web-evidence collection, integrity preservation, and authenticity service, designed to support the increase in Web-related litigation and investigation activities. AbsoluteProof WebSeal is powered by AbsoluteProof, Surety's patented, digital timestamping methodology, and is delivered to the market as a litigation-support managed service by Global Colleague.I co-authored an article on...