Legal Project Management

Legal Project Management combines expertise in project management with practical experience to provide a pared back project management framework specifically tailored to legal practice. It combines real world experience with practical applied tools and techniques that are equally applicable to in-house and external counsel, as well as all legal practice areas.

This unique book is set out so the reader can obtain an overall appreciation of the skills of legal project management and then dip back in to chapters which specialise in certain aspects of legal project management including – legal project management fundamentals; Matter Scoping; Matter Scheduling;. Matter Planning; Matter Costing; Matter Resourcing. Matter Quality; Matter Risk Management; Matter Monitoring & Controlling; Matter Closing.

Special features include checklists, tips from practice, templates and examples developed with clients.

• obtain an overall appreciation of the skills of legal project management
• dip  into chapters which specialise in certain aspects of legal project management
• apply checklists and specific tools and techniques that have been developed through practice

This review was first published in ETHOS – Journal of the ACT Law Society June 2015 – Issue 236.