We apply the principles and rigour of project management to legal tasks to support legal teams and keep projects focused on outcomes. This increases efficiency and ensures successful delivery.
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Legal Project Management applies the principles, processes and practices of project management to the delivery of legal services to ensure the successful delivery of our client’s projects.
We have a team of Legal Project Managers who offer strategic and commercial input into the process and will work with you to ensure your projects deliver on time and within budget. We have developed a bespoke methodology over a number of years, encompassing our own experience in major project delivery and also best practice from the sectors in which our clients operate. Our service combines proprietary and other technology solutions offering the optimal mix of people, process and technology.
Our Legal Project Management Team will work with you to deliver all types of legal projects. Through implementing our three stage project life-cycle, Engage, Deliver and Close, we manage legal projects more effectively, without compromising quality. We achieve this by managing the scope, budget, risk, resources, stakeholders and communication.
Each of the three stages of the process is designed to deliver the maximum benefit for you, the client. Ensuring that you gain maximum value from your legal project.
| What we do | Benefit to you |
|---|---|
| Strategic project approach | Your projects are aligned to your organisational strategy |
| Robust scoping and planning | You have a sense of control and anticipation |
| Agreeing and setting anticipated timelines and resources | You have certainty and control over budget |
| Defining roles and responsibilities and lines of communication | The whole team knows who to speak to |
| Clarifying decision making processes and aligning ways of working | No ambiguity and optimum collaboration |
| Committing to agreed deliverables | You are more likely to be happy with the result |
| Communication planning and preferences | Reflects whats important to you |
| Understanding your risk appetite and identifying key project risks and challenges | Sets a framework for mitigation and contingency measures |
| Stakeholder management | We take everyone on the journey with timely involvement of all parties |
| What we do | Benefit to you |
|---|---|
| Change management | Facilitating change using a structured approach |
| Status reporting customised to your preferences | Awareness of progress, risks and actions |
| Communicating team changes or other developments | You never have to ask for updates |
| Regular reporting on costs by phase against budget | You are in control and you know we are too |
| Focus on delivery on time and on budget | Ensures you are satisfied with the outcome |
| Ongoing review throughout of progress against key objectives | Continuous improvement is an integral part of the process |
| Visibility of the project from beginning to end | You have a sense of control and anticipation |
| Expertise of a team familiar with market norms | Ability to highlight unusual features and specific risks |
| What we do | Benefit to you |
|---|---|
| Formal closure process | Ensures your satisfaction |
| Project feedback | Identifies lessons learnt and captures best practice |
We collaborate with you and your legal team to provide tailored advice, support and management throughout the project lifecycle based on your business priorities and objectives.
We support our lawyer teams to deliver legal services in the most efficient way by promoting lean and agile ways of working while maintaining focus on your objectives and deliverables. We offer three flexible levels of service: Advise, Support and Manage.
We understand that each project is different and our approach varies depending on the size, scale, impact and the risk associated with the project. We can assist with all aspects of the project lifecycle or with discrete phases or tasks. We can be deployed alongside your legal team or embedded directly on-site with you.
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Nebil Gaigi
Head of Legal Project Management
