Common Sense Project Management
Case management as practiced by most attorneys does not follow a standard framework. Most firms do not document, much less promulgate, best practices that would be recognized by project managers following any of the popular project management standards.
The project management community is focused on standards and best practices whereas the legal community is, at best, ambivalent about developing standards and best practices in legal work that clients could use to compare and measure legal services.
Clients need to reject the tired argument that the uniqueness of each legal matter makes standardization and estimates impractical--project management standards are specifically designed to address unique endeavors. Why is a legal case any more unique than, say, a software development project?
In this webinar, Jane Gennarelli will discuss the typical reasons that litigation projects get “broken” -- why there are cost overruns, why deadlines are missed, and why quality expectations aren’t met -- and she’ll outline some common sense techniques to prevent those problems.
Among the topics she’ll discuss are budgets, procedures, oversight, documentation, and quality control.
Date: August 17 2010
Time: 10:00 a.m. Pacific; 12:00 Central; 1:00 Eastern
One Hour
Members: Free
Non-Members: $79.00 per phone line
Your Instructor:
Jane Gennarelli is a principal of Magellan’s Law Corporation -- a product and consulting firm that assists litigators with effectively handling discovery materials.
She authored the firm’s Litigation Best Practices in a Box™ product, a tool used by litigation departments to develop and implement best practices for handling discovery materials, and to ensure that effective project management techniques are applied to all of their cases. The product is in use today by one-third of the NLJ 50 firms, Jane assists clients in customizing the product and implementing best practices programs.
To Register:
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