Legal budgets are shrinking. Clients call for cost control. Finish on time, they plead. Meet business as well as legal needs. Reduce project risk. Be predictable. Do more with less. The emerging field of Legal Project Management offers a powerful new approach. As described in this groundbreaking book, Legal Project Management is not an alien discipline, full of jargon and process overhead. Rather, it's designed for the specific world of legal professionals. It respects the way attorneys work, enhancing their success by playing to their strengths. Best of all, it's easily mastered by attorneys because it's based on tasks they're already doing. Need to make better decisions and provide accurate information about cost, deadlines, and risks? You need Legal Project Management. Trying to control legal costs? Whether you're in a law firm or in-house, it's time to take advantage of Legal Project Management. Legal Project Management is the essential guide to the subject, with topics arranged so you can easily find the material you need when you need it most. Steven B. Levy, a leading expert in the field, writes with clarity and insight gained from his 35 years of business, project, and legal experience. He shares the lessons of decades of managing and mentoring teams that attained outstanding outcomes. Overworked legal professionals are already doing it all. Now get it all under control with Legal Project Management.
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Steven Levy is a technologist and project manager turned businessperson who helps the legal world deliver increased value to clients. He headed the legal technology department at Microsoft for many years, driving innovation and efficiency into one of the largest corporate law departments. He also led two industry task forces, served on the LEDES committee, and founded a corporate-law roundtable. Also in his 17 years at Microsoft, he was a Principal Consultant in Microsoft Consulting Services, managed development of Microsoft's largest IT systems, and led multiple Microsoft product groups. Before Microsoft, he spent 15 years developing commercial software, consulting, and managing projects in a variety of fields. He currently heads Lexician/Steven Levy and Associates. He is a highly requested speaker and seminar leader, and he writes regularly on legal topics.
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By G. Baltazar
This book is easy to read and describes legal project management in practical terms. It recognizes current issues and challenges in the legal industry including increasing demand of clients for alternative pricing arrangements and additional value for fees.
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Practical and Immediately Applicable Project Management Advice for Legal Professionals
May 24, 2010
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This book is a life-saver for the "accidental project manager" in a law firm or legal department and a relief for any legal professional who has found traditional project management methodologies overly cumbersome for legal practice. Many of us who style ourselves as legal project managers came to project management through our involvement in managing large electronic discovery projects, which lends itself to more traditional project management approaches. Most material about applying "project management" to legal work in general, however, amounts to little more than time-management and communication advice with a new label.
Stephen Levy, provides a balanced, practical, and immediately applicable approach to managing legal projects, which avoids overly burdensome processes without dumbing things down. This is the first book I recommend to any legal professional looking to better understand and apply project management methods to legal work.
Stephen Levy, provides a balanced, practical, and immediately applicable approach to managing legal projects, which avoids overly burdensome processes without dumbing things down. This is the first book I recommend to any legal professional looking to better understand and apply project management methods to legal work.
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This is the first and will be one of the best books written on the subject of legal project management. Busy legal professionals will certainly appreciate the approach taken by DayPack Books and Levy with "the spread." I certainly did. This book will be a constant reference for many years to come and I look forward to more from Levy.
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The book is poorly written and apparenly not edited. I found the book very difficult to read. The author frequently raised concepts and ideas without developing them.
Published 18 months ago by elena
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First mover advantage in an emerging field
Steve's book is insightful, thought-provoking and highly readable. It is an important contribution on improving the effectiveness of law practice, and to the well-established field... Read more
Published on December 29, 2009 by Aileen R. Leventon
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