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E130: Overwhelmed? It's time to get the right people doing the right work project management Apr 27, 2022

Trying to do everything yourself in your practice is a recipe for lawyer burnout. It also makes growing your practice impossible and vacations a distant dream. In fact, as we pointed out in last...

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E124: The 5 meetings that can replace all others project management Mar 08, 2022

As a leader, you expect to manage your team. But if “managing” means you need to be involved in every decision, you’ll be stuck in meetings 24/7 (maybe you already are!). You and...

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E76: Next Stage Legal Project Management project management Mar 31, 2021

Corporate legal teams and law firms across the globe have invested heavily in legal project management programs in recent years…but are those programs delivering value? Are there decisive...

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E69: The 5 Characteristics of Effective Teams productivity project management Feb 09, 2021

Creating and leading an effective remote work team requires you to provide your team with 5 things…but probably not the things you expect.

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E68: The Important Distinction Between a TEAM and a Work Group - and why it matters! project management Feb 02, 2021

The culture of work has changed forever. Even once we have successfully flattened the curve, people have been vaccinated, and we have managed to finally get ahead of COVID-19, there won’t be...

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E58: Doing It Yourself May Be A Bad Idea industry challenges project management Nov 11, 2020

If you are of the “I can do it faster myself” school of delegation, then you are almost certainly losing money and you should rethink how you work.

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E48: Four things you can do to keep your team engaged process improvement project management Sep 02, 2020

We often get asked about the ROI of process improvement projects. Everyone’s focused on the money. Today we talk about the qualitative benefits you and your team will experience when you...

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E36: Stop wearing all the hats and delegate process improvement project management Jun 10, 2020

Research suggests that most lawyers spend only 2.5 hours a day on billable legal work. The rest of the time, they are wearing other hats: accountant, HR manager, photocopy repairperson, web...

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E35: Sometimes it Takes a Village to Nurture an Idea matter management project management Jun 03, 2020

This week we are talking about one way you can increase your chances of success when you are improving your practice: find yourself a community.

Change is hard. You may be the only person in your...

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E29: Want Better LPM? Build Better Processes First process improvement project management Apr 22, 2020

On Sunday, April 19, 2020, Casey Flaherty, Director of Legal Project Management at the global powerhouse, Baker McKenzie, posted an article called, “When ‘we’ve always done it...

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E4: How to Pick the Right Project Team process improvement project management Oct 16, 2019

Gimbal’s Process Improvement Tip of the Week: Picking the Best Project Team

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Karen and I are just back from the west coast, where we started a new client...

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E2: How Do I Make a Kanban Board to Manage Legal Matters? matter management productivity project management Oct 02, 2019

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Want to manage your WIP?

Do you find it hard tracking the status of all your open matters? Would you like to be able to see, in a glance:

  • which matters need...
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