LegalBizDev helps lawyers increase profitability and provide greater value to clients at a lower cost by applying project management principles. Our “just in time, just enough training" programs can be offered in person or over the web, including:
Presentations
Interactive workshops
Individual coaching and consulting
Custom designed programs
Since there are wide differences in needs between firms, and even between groups within a single firm, we customize every webinar, every in-house presentation, and every workshop to fit the unique needs of its audience, and the culture of the firm.
“In the LegalBizDev project management workshop, participants were engaged and focused. They identified useful action items and are prepared to move forward. Your efforts were valuable and well worth the investment. It would have taken considerably more time and money for us to have gotten this far on our own.” – Bruce Clearing Sky Christensen, Executive Director, Warner, Norcross & Judd
All of our programs are designed to change behavior by helping each lawyer to focus on the action items that are most likely to produce immediate and practical results for their practice and their personality. Our programs are organized around best practices in eight key areas of legal project management:
Set objectives and define scope
Identify and schedule activities
Assign tasks and manage the team
Plan and manage the budget
Assess risks
Manage quality
Manage client communication and expectations
Negotiate changes of scope
Our proprietary approach is based on twenty five years of experience developing award winning training programs for a variety of professions, and is designed to maximize the return on lawyers’ most precious asset: their time. For examples and details of how this proprietary process works, contact us today at 617-217-2578 or
What the experts are saying about legal project management
“My income is based on my firm’s ability to deliver on alternative fee arrangements. Project management drives the cost of each matter. It determines when we make money, and when we don’t, so it has become an absolutely critical topic for our firm.” – Patrick J. Lamb, Founder, Valorem Law Group
“We need to become better managers of what we do for clients, or we will be doing the same work for a lot less net income.”
“Lawyers who can find a way to manage alternative fee arrangements effectively are going to have a competitive advantage.”
“Lawyers have been trained to prepare for every eventuality. But with alternative fees they need to think more clearly about staffing and attending to billing in real time.”
“One skill that lawyers are way, way behind on is project management – bidding, monitoring and managing – because they’ve never had to do it.”
“Lawyers will have to improve their project management skills in order to succeed with alternative fees.”
“Lower rates are not going to provide more value to the client, but better management will.”
“If we teach our people to manage, we can make more money.”
