Legal project management

Innovative and versatile legal project management excellence, in both legal and operational delivery.

Our LPM team goes beyond pure project management and is highly visible and actively involved with clients, working alongside our lawyers to help meet clients’ strategic, commercial and operational objectives.

Regularly involved in prominent cases, the LPM team has a commitment to excellence and top-tier legal services, ensuring coordination and oversight across both routine and complex matters. The team also manages operational and logistical aspects of matter delivery typically handled by senior lawyers, such as project timelines, communications, budget management, process design and improvement, and client reporting. These services enhance collaboration and drive successful outcomes.

The team includes qualified project managers (APM and PRINCE2) and experienced lawyers, bringing extensive industry knowledge and a commercial mindset to each project. This diverse background provides a multi-faceted perspective, streamlining processes, delivering operational efficiencies and optimising client legal cost. The comprehensive approach ensures a high quality of service that is tailored to a client’s specific needs.

What we offer

Visibility

Our dedication to high visibility ensures that clients always see the value we bring to their projects, this visibility being maintained through active involvement in every phase, from pitching and planning, to execution and reporting.

Diverse expertise

Our expertise spans key sectors, ensuring that we bring specialised knowledge and tailored solutions to each project.

Adaptability

This is not a ‘one size fits all’ service. The LPM team works collaboratively with legal and client teams throughout the lifecycle of a matter, tailoring its approach to individual client needs and demands.

Expert governance

Our LPM team ensures robust project governance with clear structures and plans, supporting decision-making and accountability at every stage, and ensuring deadlines are met.

Innovative tools

We have developed a range of tools, including our online platform ClientSpace, to enhance project delivery, providing real-time tracking and reporting, giving clients transparency and control over their projects.

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Effective management information

We tailor reports to meet client needs, offering clear, actionable dashboards that provide detailed financial and progress updates.

Comprehensive stakeholder management

We engage stakeholders through workshops and tailored tools, facilitating seamless communication and change management.

Our approach

From project governance to risk management, our Legal Project Management (LPM) services ensure comprehensive support and guidance, helping you achieve optimal results efficiently and effectively.

Working in an organised and streamlined manner brings about benefits to our clients.

You have the flexibility to customise your LPM needs, opting for either full-time LPM or consultancy services, tailoring the level of support to your requirements.

To find out more or to discuss your LPM needs, get in touch with us.

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Our Legal Project Managers design efficient ways of working and managing client matters by:

  • Imparting strong matter governance from the outset;
  • Facilitating collaboration between teams, particularly those located in multiple sites;
  • Efficiently coordinating instructions and triaging work;
  • Tracking and monitoring tasks by reference to KPIs, project milestones and critical paths in matter project plans;
  • Streamlining communications with project stakeholders;
  • Identifying and monitoring risks, and planning risk mitigation responses;
  • Providing effective management information by tailoring reports to suit your needs, working closely with our Client Reporting Analysts to help meet reporting requirements and ensuring full visibility of any financial and non-financial information required.

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Our team

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Experience

Public Inquiry

Our fully embedded LPM team expertly coordinated 180 lawyers across two law firms, and managed complex data transitions to deliver seamless and exceptional outcomes for our client.

Energy project

Orchestrated multiple workstreams and established robust governance and processes for matter structure, including meticulous budget oversight. Served as the central liaison for the client project team and contract managers throughout.

Secondment

LPM team secondments ensured strong working relationships, seamless collaboration and efficient client and legal team processes and systems. They enhanced legal service delivery, encouraging knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.

What others say

“They took over the PM role with no discernible delay to the process and very little in the way of additional support or background. They have very quickly got to grips with the idiosyncrasies of the process and of First.”

FirstGroup plc

“The involvement of the LPM team was probably the best example of how we helped create a seamless, integrated holistic client / lawyer team. ”

LPM client

“The biggest direct LPM to Senior Associate value, is having someone remind you of all the plates that are spinning. It is invaluable to have someone who, when you come back up to that ‘surveying the plates’ level, knows who is doing what and where it’s got to.”

Burges Salmon Senior Associate

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Our solutions and products

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