Next Stage Legal Project Management

Future-proof your Matter Management

Consultant editor Ignaz Fuesgen

Publication date:

17 March 2021

Publisher

Globe Law and Business

ISBN-13: 9781787424210

Corporate legal teams and law firms have made significant investments in their legal project management programmes over the past few years. It is time to take stock and, more importantly, envision future interventions. What are the decisive strategies and actions to expedite the value creation of those programmes? In this book, an international group of 27 experts comprising private practitioners, in-house counsel, technologists, legal operations managers and legal management consultants offer unique perspectives and insights to help you take your legal project management programmes to the next stage. Topics covered include: •Methodology; •People management; •Communication and interaction; •Data and performance; and •Implementation of legal project management programmes. Written by practitioners for practitioners, this title will benefit General Counsel, legal COOs, managing partners, practice leaders and other executives running legal services delivery teams who have initiated legal project management programmes and seek new ideas and inspiration for more value creation. Practical and illustrative examples, case studies and many shared experiences direct the reader towards the next level of proficiency in legal project management – future-proofing your matter management.

Introduction 5 Ignaz Fuesgen smartvokat GmbH Part 1. Methodology A competency framework: propelling the value paradigm 9 Aileen Leventon Law Strategy Coach Start with your processes: building a foundation for legal project management 23 Karen Dunn Skinner Gimbal – Lean practice management advisers LeanLegal® Academy Waterfall, Agile or hybrid? 37 Ignaz Fuesgen smartvokat GmbH Evolving legal project management through legal design 53 Jasmin Bejaoui Reinvent Law Sebastian Schaub Baker McKenzie Part 2. Talent and team Team diversity and intercultural competence 65 Jeanne-Mari Retief CALIBRICS Professional skills required in legal project management 79 Nina Gramcko Oliver Hofmann Noerr LLP Legal project management: a space for multiple intelligences 93 Anna Marra International Institute of Legal Project Management Effective leadership for high-performing legal teams 109 Todd Hutchison Curtin University and Edith Cowan University International Institute of Legal Project Management Balfour Meagher Part 3. Communication and interaction Communication as a success factor in legal project management 119 Anna-Katharina Horn reThinkLegal GmbH The art of listening 131 David Skinner Gimbal – Lean practice management advisers LeanLegal® Academy Legal project management collaboration platforms 145 Larry Bridgesmith Accelerate Insite LLC LegalAlignment LLC The power of workflows in legal project management 155 Christian Schuhmann Julien Weiler smartvokat GmbH Part 4. Data and performance Task codes and key performance indicators 175 Kevin Bielawski Lann Wasson Husch Blackwell LLP Costing and fee models 193 Jim Hannigan Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP Risk management 203 Julie Mathys Naomi Thompson Exigent Group Limited Artificial intelligence and legal project management 215 Dries Cronje Deep Learning Café Part 5. Implementation Legal project management procurement and delivery: law firm vs in-house 221 Helga Butcher LawAdvisor Change management in legal project management 231 CJ Nicastro S&P Global Inc Teams with purpose: defining purpose, OKRs and motivators 241 Karol Valencia WOW Legal Experience Lawcus eID Collaboration: the congruency between legal project management and business development 251 Anshoo Patel Mitchell Sterling Blank Rome LLP About the authors 261 About Globe Law and Business 271

LPM helps the modern lawyer become equipped for the changing world of legal practice. This book offers a wealth of practical guidance and inspiration.