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No Title - Post Discusses Legal Project Management

This post was written by Ted Tjaden: "As earlier promised, a somewhat delayed post on legal project management (LPM).

The recent Ark Group master class on LPM, by Steven B. Levy of Lexician and Patrick Lamb of the Valorem Law Group, was a good overview of the topic, with Steven drawing on his experiences at Microsoft and from his book, with Patrick providing a law firm perspective based on the approach in his daily practice. The session certainly reinforced the points in Steven's book and provided useful context and comfort for implementing LPM. In addition to both the various theoretical and practical ideas presented, I hope to use ideas from that session to customize a number of checklists and templates.

In addition, LPM was also a topic at a recent meeting of a peer group of knowledge management lawyers. To their credit, colleagues and bloggers Mary Abraham and David Hobbie have nicely summarized those sessions on their foregoing blogs (check their various entries for October 15th).

At the risk of oversimplifying the topic, I had a number of take-away points from these sessions..."

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Source: Slaw.ca, 20 October 2010. Reproduced with permission of Simon Fodden, founder of Slaw.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on October 21, 2010 (boomark / email).