Legal Project Management Masterclass
Develop essential skills in collaboration, scoping, planning, scheduling, resourcing, and costing so you can improve your practice’s efficiency, stability and growth. In this in-depth, 3-hour session, global leader Therese Linton will share the secrets of 35 years’ experience as a project delivery expert and academic so you can master the management of your legal projects in today’s challenging environment. WEB233N57Z
Description
Attend and earn 3 CPD units in Practice Management
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
In a competitive market, lawyers with LPM skills will be in higher demand as they are more flexible and adaptable to changing client expectations and working conditions. With this 3-part masterclass you will hone these skills so that you can:
ESTABLISH strategies to get more out of your legal spend
IMPLEMENT legal project precedents to improve efficiency
IMPROVE delivery on client expectations
ENSURE your practice is running efficiently & effectively
PROMOTE your practice’s growth & stability
In this exceptional masterclass, you will dive deep into legal project management. Finesse your skills and maximise on this opportunity. Take with you materials and case studies that will assist you to employ legal project management skills in your practice.
Part 1: LPM Core Concepts & 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
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea Break
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
Presenters
Therese Linton
Therese Linton has worked with thousands of lawyers to introduce innovative ways of working that delights clients, reduces stress, improves work-life balance and leads to better legal outcomes. Therese is uniquely positioned with extensive academic credentials and a project delivery career spanning more than 3 decades. She was a Lecturer for Sydney University’s prestigious Master of Project Management for 7 years and also lectured in Legal Project Management for the College of Law for 3 years.
Therese Linton is a global leader in legal project management and legal process improvement. Over the last decade she’s worked with thousands of lawyers to introduce innovative ways of working that delights clients, reduces stress, improves work-life balance and leads to better legal outcomes. Check out www.basaltgroup.global. Being one of the founders of the field of Legal Project Management and literally wrote the book in 2014, Therese has the practical experience and academic credentials to support you to adopt new ways of working. As part of the work Therese does training and coaching lawyers in Legal Project Management, she discovered that most lawyers have not been introduced to personal productivity concepts that many other professionals take for granted. So, she gathered her selection of the ’best of the best’ personal productivity tools and now the Personality Productivity Skills session is one of the most popular that she delivers. Her latest coaching program The POSITIVE Lawyer is now under development. Find out more about the groundbreaking POSITIVE Lawyer Online learning and coaching program by booking in a FREE initial coaching session with Therese. Therese is uniquely positioned with extensive academic credentials and a project delivery career spanning more than 3 decades. She was a Lecturer for Sydney University’s prestigious Master of Project Management for 7 years and also lectured in Legal Project Management for the College of Law for 3 years. She has written three books – Project Management Essentials, Cengage 2014, Legal Project Management, LexisNexis 2014., and the new Amazon best seller The POSITIVE Lawyer Mindset https://www.amazon.com/POSITIVE-Lawyer%C2%AE-MINDSET-Inspiring-transform/dp/B0B2TW64HT