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"Legal Project Management - Do Litigators 'Scrum'?"

This post was written by Andrew Terrett: "Legal Project Management has certainly become flavour of the month. I will be co-chairing a full one-day conference on the topic (on November 1^st, 2010 in Toronto). This is the first Canadian event of its kind and the fact that the conference is organized by the Canadian Bar Association and has both law firm and in-house counsel speakers suggests that the idea of applying project management principles to legal services has broad support and interest across the profession.

But while the topic resonates for many lawyers (with its prospect for increased budgetary certainty and potentially better outcomes), my experience is that the majority of lawyers who gravitate towards the topic tend to be corporate lawyers rather than litigators. Litigators are generally a little more skeptical, citing a number of potentially very valid concerns..."

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Source: Slaw.ca, 8 October 2010. Reproduced with permission of Simon Fodden, founder of Slaw.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on October 08, 2010 (boomark / email).