Even a decade after it was created, Legal Project Management is still an emerging discipline in the legal sector that uses project management techniques and adapts them to apply to the management of legal matters. Practitioners of legal project management employ it in the process of providing legal services rather than in the substantive legal work itself. It is becoming increasingly common, especially when modern legal practices deal with alternative fee arrangements or where improving efficiency and client service is a goal…
In-house counsel and outside legal teams apply legal practice management principles, and it is fast becoming a non-negotiable skill set. To stay competitive, all lawyers need to understand the basic principles and be able to apply them to create legal project management procedures for the operation of their practice. At the same time, we need professional legal project management specialists who can work with legal teams to support the delivery of more complex systems.
