This eLearning experience will give you insight into the roles, life cycle, knowledge areas and key tools used in Legal Project Management, as an introductory insight towards enhancing your career top lead legal matters. It is designed for legal project managers, lawyers, para-legal professionals, forensic specialists and consultants working in the legal profession or related fields.

Legal Project Management (LPM) is the application of project management principles and practices to enhance the delivery of legal services.

LPM recognises that legal matters are projects, and in order to plan and execute projects consistently and effectively, they should embrace project management practices. This not only increases efficiency, and utilities technology, it enables fixed price legal services and other alternate fee arrangements.

Whilst neither the legal profession nor the project management disciplines are new, there has been a global wave of interest in legal project management practices. So what is the sudden catalyst for law firms to take a project approach to legal matters? Well, it simply comes down to client market demands for alternate fee arrangements (AFA), and particularly fixed price legal services. This is because a move from the billable hour requires more rigour in planning, an understanding of identifying the legal matter costs upfront, determining the client price, and being able to deliver the matter on time, on budget and to the specification required. This may require risk management, issues management, variation management and variation management.

LPM however goes beyond just AFA, as a study conducted by the International Institute of Legal Project Management across 9 countries of legal project management practitioners found that LPM covers not only implementing a more formal project approach, but also incorporates process improvement, technology integration and an emphasis on the soft skills to better engage key stakeholders.

This course is a prerequisite educational program for attaining the international level of either the:

It includes 33 Learning Segments that comprise:

1. About the Course
2. Introduction to Legal Project Management
3. Beyond Project Management Principles
4. Artificial intelligence in Law
5. PM Standards and the 10 PM Knowledge Areas
6. The Legal Matter Life Cycle
7. The Legal Matter Categories
8. Legal Project Management Methodologies
9. Legal Project Team Roles and Responsibilities
10. An Introduction to the Work Breakdown Structure
11. Matter Scope Management
12. Matter Schedule Management
13. Matter Cost Management
14. Implementing Fixed Price Legal Services
15. Implementing Values-based pricing
16. Matter Human Resource Management
17. Matter Quality Management
18. Matter Communication Management
19. Matter Stakeholder Management
20. Matter Procurement Management
21. Matter Risk Management
22. Leading People
23. The Basics of Body Language
24. Behavioural Modelling
25. Issues Management
26. Variation (Change) Management
27. Lessons Learnt Management
28. Implementing Legal Project Management
29. Legal PM for In-House Counsel
30. Legal PM for Litigation
31. Legal Project Management Offices
32. Agile Project Management
33. Professional Recognition in Legal Project Management

It includes the following Additional Resources:

• Short 30 question assessment
• Certificate of Completion (once completed the education and questionnaire)
• IILPM Code of Ethics
• LPM Implementation Industry Guide
• Glossary of Terms
• Glossary of Acronyms

It includes over 45 Microsoft® Word-based Templates (made available as downloadable templates) that you can use for personal use or for work use (although you cannot distribute them, make them available on a public online forum or on-sell them) that include:

Define Phase

1. Definition Brief template
2. Matter Proposal template
3. Work Breakdown Structure template

Plan Phase

1. Minor Matter Plan template
2. Major Matter Plan template
3. Risk Management Plan template
4. Quality Management Plan template
5. Communications Management Plan template
6. Quality Management Plan template
7. Organisational Chart Tool template
8. Human Resource Allocation Plan template
9. Stakeholder Management Strategy template
10. Procurement Strategy template
11. Negotiation Strategy template
12. Fee Schedule template
13. Pre-Deliver Phase Checklist template

Deliver Phase

1. Work Breakdown Structure Tracker template
2. Progress Status Report template
3. Risk Register template
4. Issues Register template
5. Cost Tracker template
6. Action Item Register template
7. Variation (Change) Request template
8. Variation (Change) Register template
9. Legal Project Team Kick-off Meeting Agenda template
10. Legal Project Team Meeting Agenda template
11. Legal Project Team Meeting Minutes template
12. Client Meeting Agenda template
13. Client Meeting Minutes template
14. Contractor Meeting Agenda template
15. Contractor Meeting Minutes template
16. Contractor Scope Instruction template
17. Contractor Progress Status Report template
18. Lessons Learnt Register template
19. Responsibility Assignment Matrix template

Close Phase

1. Matter Close-Out Report template
2. Close-Out Phase Checklist template
3. Lessons Learnt Report template

Other Templates

1. Career Professional Development Plan template
2. DISC Behavioural Sampler Tool template
3. Team Member Skills Matrix template
4. Legal PMO Analysis Checklist template
5. LPM Methodology Analysis Checklist template
6. Legal Project Manager Position Description template
7. Document Review Request template
8. Agile Backlog template

This educational experience will help you understand the importance of Legal Project Management to increasing efficiency and delivering a more robust legal matter process, as well as learning how to improve the practice management process.