This post is the second part of a whitepaper written by Scott Preston and Ryan McClead. The full paper can be downloaded here.
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There is no longer any doubt that the legal market has fundamentally changed in recent years. Every firm felt the weight of their clients’ demands
This post is the first part of a whitepaper written by Scott Preston and Ryan McClead. The full paper can be downloaded here.
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Project Management, which has been around since the 1950s, is defined on Wikipedia as “the discipline of planning,
Toby Brown sat down with Shy Alter on Monday and had a great conversation on where law firms (and clients) are in the transition to Alternative Fee Arrangements (AFAs) versus traditional Billable Hour work. I’ve embedded the video (and it will pick up right as Toby is being introduced. It is a very informative 6
Since we’re on the topic of Social Networks in a Law Firm…
Social (small s) collaboration is the lifeblood of any project undertaken by human beings. We have evolved to collaborate
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The theme of “self-help” has popped up in a number of my conversations lately. I’m talking about work that lawyers used to rely upon others to handle, that they are now handling themselves. Whether it is pulling PACER dockets, case law, Shepardizing, filing court documents, or typing up their own documents,
Balancing out my post this week on some less-than favorable news from Texas, I wanted to share some very good news from the Lone Star State.
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This week’s Elephant Post question on Project Management (PM) centers around the concept of is PM conducted in a law firm setting significantly different enough from PM conducted, say in a Fortune 500 company, that it deserves its own classification? Is it Legal Project Management (LPM)? Or, is it simply
