Legal Project Management Fundamentals
Issues covered include: legal project management, LPM, legal environment, workplace, project management, strategy, framework, legal projects, client expectations, legal spend
Description
Legal Project Management is an innovative approach to delivering legal matters that is fast becoming a competency standard for all legal practitioners. Law firms need to adopt LPM to stay competitive in today’s increasingly challenging legal environment. In-house counsel need to incorporate the benefits of LPM to deliver consistent and effective legal outcomes and manage their expenditure on external legal counsel.
Attend and earn 3 CPD units including:
1.5 CPD units in Practice Management
1.5 CPD units in Professional Skills
Part 1: Introduction & Matter Scoping
Explore foundation concepts and the first of the core LPM disciplines: Matter Scoping.
- LPM overview
- The Triple Constraint
- Matter scoping
- Deliverables vs activities
- Assumptions, constraints and external factors
- LPM precedents: matter overview and matter structure
Part 2: Matter Scheduling & Matter Resourcing
- Project time concepts
- Matter schedules
- Matter resourcing
- LPM precedents: matter timeline, matter checklist and responsibility assignment matrices
Part 3: Matter Costing & Matter Monitoring
- Matter costing vs matter pricing
- Monitoring and reporting progress
- Managing variations
- LPM precedents: matter status reports
Presented by Therese Linton, Founder and Principal Consultant, The BASALT Group
Learning Outcomes
- INTRODUCE foundation legal project management concepts
- UNDERSTAND how project management applies to legal transactions
- APPLY key concepts to improve delivery on client expectations
- INTRODUCE the foundations to get more out of your legal spend
- ESTABLISH frameworks to develop legal project precedents
The session will be run by Therese Linton a global leader in Legal Project Management and Legal Process Improvement. Over the last decade she has worked with thousands of lawyers to develop the training materials and case studies she will share. She also literally wrote the book on the subject. Learn more www.basaltgroup.global
Therese Linton is a leading global expert in legal project management and actively works with law firms and in-house legal teams to transform their approach to delivering legal outcomes. Over the last decade she has worked with thousands of lawyers to develop ground-breaking Legal Project Management frameworks and introduce innovative ways of working that delights clients, reduces stress, improves work-life balance and leads to better legal outcomes
She is a highly competent project delivery professional and academic with over 25 years’ experience in project management related roles covering the IT, Banking and Finance, Telecommunications, Manufacturing and Legal sectors. For the past 10 years she has been delivering training and developing legal project management competency frameworks for major commercial firms, the Law Society of NSW and the College of Law, delivering successful outcomes through face to face training programs and workshops.
Testimonials
‘I learnt more in a few hours with Therese than I learnt in 3 days with another leading LPM trainer.’ -Partner, Maddocks
‘Useful and practical ideas for implementing better project management in my legal practice.’ -Senior Associate, Allen & Overy
‘Excellent. Really useful and practical suggestions I can implement.’ -Partner, Finlaysons Lawyers
‘Excellent new grounded way of thinking about scope and costing that all law firm partners (and lawyers) should be exposed to.’ -Partner, Corney and Lind Lawyers
I will be able to put the lessons learned into practice and deliver better outcomes for my firm and my clients. Therese is a very engaging presenter.’ -Partner, McCullough Robertson
‘Very practical session and good structure…Excellent overview of the skills lawyers need to become better project managers of legal matters.’ -Partner, Williams Graham Carme