Author(s): Barbara J Boake, Rick A Kathuria
Publication date: Apr 2011
Format: Softback
Pages: 115
Price: £159.00
ISBN: 9781907787614
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In a highly competitive fee-focused environment, project management can be your law firm’s lifeline.
Managing Partner’s Project Management for Lawyers report provides a structured approach to planning, pricing and managing legal work that will boost profitability and deliver superior value to your clients. It aims to:
- Demonstrate the value of applying project management to a legal practice;
- Explain basic project management principles and how to apply them within your law firm;
- Provide a simple legal project management framework;
- Describe key tools and techniques to support the framework;
- Discuss legal project management as a pricing and business development strategy;
- Show how lawyers can manage matter profitability and demonstrate value to clients;
- Guide lawyers in overcoming the challenges in managing a matter profitably (time, scope and cost); and,
- Share practical advice on how to develop and implement a legal project management programme within your firm.
Real-life in-depth case studies provide valuable insight into the successful legal project management programmes of Dechert LLP, Eversheds LLP, Seyfarth Shaw LLP and McCarthy Tétrault.
A case study from the Royal Bank of Canada is also included to provide the a client's perspective on the value of legal project management.
Project Management for Lawyers also comes with a complimentary CDRom packed with useful forms, templates, checklists and frameworks that can be used immediately in planning and executing your own project management programme. These include:
- A generic work plan;
- A sample staffing profile;
- A sample agenda for a project kick-off meeting;
- A sample roles and responsibilities sheet;
- A client satisfaction review questionnaire;
- A project risk log;
- A sample change request form;
- A sample monitoring worksheet;
- An example of an agenda for a lessons learned session;
- An example of how to calculate leverage on matter profitability;
- A completed monitoring worksheet; and
- A work plan for an asset purchase.
