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“Data Driven”: In a Car, Is the Driver a Bug… or a Feature?

Driver: Bug or Feature? "The fact that you're still driving is a bug," [Google's Anthony] Levandowski says, "not a feature." I'm sure there'll be the inevitable responses about computer crashes vs. auto crashes, but...

Published Wed, Feb 8 2012 10:03 PM by Steven B. Levy

Filed under: legal project management, Steven B. Levy, lexician blog

Can Lawyers Learn From Best Buy?

Larry Downes in Forbes has an article on the decline and (they presume) fall of Best Buy . Other than the hagiography of Amazon.com, 1 there are some very interesting points in the article. Before you read it, though, consider what you think intuitively...

Published Mon, Jan 16 2012 9:17 PM by Steven B. Levy

Filed under: leadership, legal project management, Steven B. Levy, strategic planning

Steve Jobs, Teamwork, and Legal Project Management

Jonah Lehrer writes in Wired and The New Yorker about Steve Jobs using architecture to inculcate teamwork when he took over Pixar. He insisted that Pixar's headquarters be designed so that disparate groups of employees were forced to come together...

Published Tue, Oct 18 2011 11:14 AM by Steven B. Levy

Filed under: leadership, legal project management, Steven B. Levy, Steve Jobs, Jonah Lehrer

Everyone’s Trying to Get in on the Act

I saw an ad today for a university-sponsored legal project management 1 course for in-house counsel. I checked out the instructors, figuring that a reputable university would of course engage one of the specialists in this area. In this case I assumed...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2011 10:18 AM by Steven B. Levy

Filed under: legal project management, Steven B. Levy, Training

Can Project Managers Win by Being Annoying?

Some project managers lead successful projects by working well with the members of their team, their business partners/clients, and so on. Actually, most successful project managers are successful because they know how to work with people. Sometimes,...

Published Wed, Oct 5 2011 1:20 PM by Steven B. Levy

Filed under: legal project management, Steven B. Levy

Specifications Failure!

Here's a picture of the field from Sunday's Jaguars-Saints football game, from NFL.com: Look at the directional arrows painted on the field next to the yard markers. Compare the arrow on the 10-yard line at the top of the picture with that at...

Published Wed, Oct 5 2011 1:15 PM by Steven B. Levy

Filed under: legal project management, Steven B. Levy

An introduction to legal project management (Part 3 of 3)

This series of posts is a slightly extended version of an article that appeared in the July 2011 issue of Managing Partner magazine . To download a PDF of the published version of my article, click here. Firms that are looking for more affordable solutions...

Published Wed, Sep 14 2011 9:47 AM by Jim Hassett

Filed under: legal project management, alternative fee arrangements, Jim Hassett, Legal Business Trends

Legal Project Management by another Name

Jay Shepard has an interesting post today at Above the Law where he talks about the need for partners to teach associates to be future partners . He lists seven things a teaching partner should do to strengthen the firm for the future: Be consistent....

Published Thu, Sep 8 2011 12:56 PM by Steven B. Levy

Filed under: leadership, legal project management, Steven B. Levy, Above the Law

How Dumb Is the Pointy-Haired Boss?

Scott Adams and Dilbert regularly ridicule management, usually represented by the pointy-haired boss, or PHB. Over the many years Adams has been drawing the strip, he's certainly found plenty of targets for ridicule. Many of them have struck home...

Published Thu, Sep 1 2011 12:29 PM by Steven B. Levy

Filed under: leadership, legal project management, Steven B. Levy

An introduction to legal project management (Part 2 of 3)

This series of posts is a slightly extended version of an article that appeared in the July 2011 issue of Managing Partner magazine . To download a PDF of the published version of my article, click here . Problems like the ones described last week could...

Published Wed, Aug 24 2011 1:41 PM by Jim Hassett

Filed under: legal project management, Jim Hassett, Law firm, Project Management Institute (PMI)

An introduction to legal project management (Part 1 of 3)

This series of posts is a slightly extended version of an article that appeared in the July 2011 issue of Managing Partner magazine . To download a PDF of the published version of my article, click here . In one sense, any lawyer who has ever planned...

Published Wed, Aug 17 2011 11:34 AM by Jim Hassett

Filed under: legal project management, Jim Hassett, Law firm, Project Management Institute (PMI)

LPM Case Study: Fasken Martineau’s bottom-up approach

A few weeks ago, I gave a presentation at the Toronto office of Fasken Martineau , a firm with over 675 lawyers in Canada, the United Kingdom, France and South Africa. The topic was Legal Project Management (LPM): What law firms are doing today, and what...

Published Wed, Jul 27 2011 10:27 AM by Jim Hassett

Filed under: legal project management, Legal Business Trends

The ACC Value Index

We live in an age when consumers rate everything from restaurants to toaster ovens and movies on Yelp , Trip Advisor , Netflix , and hundreds of other web sites. In this environment, is inevitable that law firms too would be rated online. In October 2009...

Published Wed, Jul 20 2011 9:57 AM by Jim Hassett

Filed under: law firms, legal project management, Association of Corporate Counsel, reviews, ACC

Book review: Project management for lawyers

Buy this book. (Right after you buy mine .) Project Management for Lawyers was written by two experts in this emerging field: Barbara Boake , a senior partner at McCarthy Tetrault , and Rick Kathuria, a certified Project Management Professional at the...

Published Wed, Jul 13 2011 1:55 PM by Jim Hassett

Filed under: legal project management, alternative fee arrangements, Books

What’s different about LEGAL project management?

A few weeks ago, Three Geeks and a Law Blog ran a post entitled "Is it 'legal' project management or just project management? ," which included very interesting comments by a who's who of thought leaders in the field, including Pam...

Published Wed, Jun 22 2011 9:30 AM by Jim Hassett

Filed under: legal project management, alternative fee arrangements, Legal Business Trends

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