Legal Project Management

Deliver added client value, control costs, minimize project risk and maintain firm profitability using easily learned techniques and a practical framework to manage legal projects/cases efficiently

Date: 22 Apr 2010 - 22 Apr 2010

Location: AMA Executive Conference Center New York, NY

Why should you attend this program?

Over the next 12 months law firms will be looking at ways to retain or boost profitability as clients demand deeper discounts and push for alternative fee arrangements (AFAs) — as such agreements increasingly appear on client wish lists and RFPs. AFAs bring new risk as well as opportunity to a growing number of forward-looking law firms—some that will test the AFA waters in 2010—and others that will dive deeply into the pool. Effective Legal Project Management is a boon to firms looking to control their costs and meet client schedules. It’s the appropriate way to monitor and reduce project-related risks, including cost-overrun risks arising in particular from fixed and flat-fee AFAs. Legal Project Management, as laid out by specialist and author Steven B. Levy, consists of a set of easily learned, practical techniques designed specifically for the practice of law—along with a way of thinking about projects from the detail level to your overall project portfolio. Attorneys versed in Legal Project Management can devote their time to adding project, case, and firm value rather than wrestling with their projects.

Attendees of this master class will learn the key principles of Legal Project Management, including:

  • An evaluation of the factors that determine project success—gaining knowledge of the questions that both project managers and practice leaders should be asking
  • An opportunity to return to your firm with practical techniques and strategies that you can implement immediately centered on an understanding of how Legal Project Management promotes the economics of both projects and the firm itself
This master class will demystify project management, scraping away the veneer of jargon and buzzwords to reveal the value and breadth of application beneath. This is your opportunity to discover how easy it can be to control your legal projects and deliver added value for your clients, as well as maintain or even increase profitability for your firm.