Legal Project Management
We help new and established law firms and legal departments develop a proactive, disciplined approach to managing legal work that involves defining, planning, budgeting, executing, and evaluating a legal matter. We train attorneys and support staff on the application of skills, tools, and techniques to achieve legal project objectives and provide tools for improving communication to set and meet client expectations.
Legal Process Improvement
Our legal process improvement services include evaluation of your current law firm practices and development of a repeatable model of execution. This includes enhancing or re-engineering work processes by analyzing its existing state, identifying areas for increased efficiencies, and eliminating waste or rework to deliver desired business outcomes.
Practical Solutions.
Profitable Results.
Discover innovative ways to manage legal projects with reduced stress and increased productivity. Lex takes your vision and relentlessly drives it to completion.
Project Management & Productivity Experts
Lex offers on-location and virtual project management and technology services to law firms, legal departments, and legal vendors across the United States. We give your organization a competitive advantage by providing increased value, cutting waste, increasing productivity, and reducing risk.
Join a growing list of law firms and other legal organizations that have seen remarkable transformations in the delivery of legal services. Learn more about our services below.
Consulting Services
Lex focuses on our clients' most critical issues and opportunities: strategy, organization, efficiency, productivity, risk management, communication, technology, and human resources. We bring functional expertise to law firms, legal departments, and other legal organizations by identifying opportunities for improvement across the silos that exist in organizational structure and culture. Read more about our services below.
"Per Project"
Consulting
Through proactive planning, risk management, budgeting, and resource allocation, we help legal professionals excel at case and matter management.
We apply the best project management methodology - predictive, agile, or hybrid - depending upon your organizational and project needs.
Agile, Predictive, Hybrid Project Management Training
We coach legal professionals on selecting and using Agile, Scrum, Predictive, and Hybrid project management methods so you can consistently apply skills, tools, and best practices to achieve project objectives and exceed expectations.
We offer training virtually, in-house, and at conferences or retreats.
Process
Improvement
Process improvement and automation help your organization save valuable time.
Our consultants enhance or re-engineer your work processes by analyzing their existing state, identifying areas for increased efficiencies, and eliminating waste or rework that impedes delivering desired business outcomes.
Legal Technology
Most lawyers are lawyers, not IT experts. Many lawyers will forgo technological advances for immediate utility if it imposes a steep learning curve that takes away from productivity.
We work with legal professionals to select technology and tools that are user-friendly and support project management objectives.
Project Estimating
Using gut instinct to price legal matters causes lost revenue and clients. We help you accurately factor in potential variables and risks that increase cost or time.
We use various methods including bottom-up, top-down, parametric, PERT, and other estimating techniques depending on your needs.
PMO Outsourcing
Lex offers PMO services to organizations that want (but lack) their own in-house PMO.
A project management office (PMO) defines, maintains, and ensures project management standards across an organization. They also act as a repository and resource library for templates, tools, and other resources.
Our Methodologies
Traditional - Predictive - Waterfall
Projects are comprehensively scoped and planned upfront. Formal processes take the team through the initiating, planning, executing, monitoring/controlling, and closing phases. Comprehensive documentation in each phase acts as a guidebook for next steps reducing unexpected events and risks. Its prescriptive methodology is best suited for medium to large-scale projects.
Agile: Scrum
Projects use a continuous cycle of planning and execution in 1-week to 1-month periods. The focus is more on controlling work in progress, collaboration, and rapid feedback than prescriptive processes. It uses a lightweight framework with less documentation (compared to Traditional) to plan work before each iterative cycle. Its incremental approach allows legal team to flex as needed and is suitable for small to medium-scale projects and smaller teams (≤ 9).
Hybrid
Projects combine two (or more) different methodologies to create a new method customized to individual project needs. For example, one might take advantage of traditional project management's initiating and planning phase if a project would benefit from a comprehensive project plan but choose to execute and close the project using Scrum's more flexible (Agile) framework.
Benefits
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Reduce risk of bar complaints and fee disputes.
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Limit write-offs and increase profit
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Estimate legal fees accurately
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Cultivate stakeholder relationships
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Foster legal team cohesion and morale
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Identify and reduce unexpected events
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Optimize time and resources
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Improve the quality of legal services
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Increase value conferred
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Elevate client-staff interactions
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Provide timely, accurate, and complete communications
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Align stakeholder expectations with legal team behaviors
Listen to a Lex Consultant discuss Traditional and Agile Project Management on Legal Talk Network
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Project Management for the Legal Professional
MCLE: 3.00 / Ethics: 3.00
Live - Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022
in Columbia, SC
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