Innovative law firms and legal departments continue to seek the optimal method to more efficiently and intelligently plan, organize, track and complete work. Project and task management tools within Thomson Reuters HighQ allow legal professionals to stay focused on important assignments and not the minutiae of documenting progress. HighQ provides a quick overview of project …
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Complete Solution: Beyond Legal Project Management
As the legal industry evolves, few things are certain. The “2019 Report on the State of the Legal Market” said that traditional law firm models have “broken apart” from new competition resulting in “unprecedented levels” of client and talent poaching. The report urges law firms to “jettison some long-held assumptions and … imagine a new …
How legal research can improve legal project management
While the words “project management” may make many of us cringe, legal project management is becoming an increasing buzzword in legal circles. With many firms still struggling to gain momentum amidst sluggish demand and client pricing pressures, firms are exploring many new avenues to re-examine, and if need be, re-invent some of their processes. Firms …
Do lawyers need to become project managers?
Lawyers as Project Management Professionals; Who Owns Legal Project Management, and What Training/Certification Do They Need. by Nathan Bowie, Thomson Reuters Engage I’ve just had the opportunity to moderate two panel discussions on Legal Project Management here at LegalTech. In both cases, I was very fortunate to have such personable and knowledgeable panelists, and I’d …
Legal project management comes full circle
by Nathan Bowie, Thomson Reuters Engage The first version of Microsoft ProjectTM for WindowsTM was released in 1990. Between then and now, many law firm CIOs have variously cajoled, begged and even threatened attorneys to apply even the meanest vestiges of project management tools and methodologies to their practices. Until very recently, these attempts have met with unmitigated failure, …
“Attack of the project management solutions” at LTNY?
This post was written by Jeff Friedman, director of marketing, Westlaw CaseLogistix LegalTech New York rarely surprises. It’s always at the Hilton. It’s always at the end of January / beginning of February. It’s always cold. It always features new technology. After all the show is called LegalTech – as much emphasis on the ‘tech’ …