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Legal project management conference has been delivered last week (22-23 October 2020). Over two days with 137 participants and 25 speakers we worked, shared and inspired. Great to be organizer ans speaker at such event. There is to many take away from two days to put in single post, so I will try to gradually share insights and information from various presentations and panels. For know I can say that it has been extremely insightful and great amount of knowledge…

This post is ⛔ NOT FOR LAWYERS ⛔ it is for legal services buyers, users, procurement specialists, legal project managers and coordinators What is project management knowledge among legal/tax/compliance professionals? How level of this knowledge will impact your merger process, divorce or tax dispute? 🤦‍♂️ Common sense advices not to outsource project to contractor without proficiency in project management and execution… ❓ But how do you verify if your future legal/tax services provider is PRO in project management? Contact us…

Term of business project partnering has been created to describe functional teams members (primarily Finance and HR) working alongside business teams to work together in projects or operations and create value adding partnership. The concept of finance business partner working with project teams to support financial maters, budgets and financial analysis of the project has proved to be very beneficial for both project managers and project success. What needs to happen for legal, tax or compliance teams to become project…

Legal Project Management is relatively new area of the project management landscape. Therefore, it has no solid, widely agreed framework or tools to be used. Some even argue that LPM is just a temporary consulting hype not an area of legal services. Luckily the reality is proving that as clients want more efficiency, legal services have to adapt in order to improve efficiency and protect profitability (and I tend to call big part of this adaptation process Legal Project Management).…

W poprzednim artykule dotyczącym zarządzania projektami prawnymi spojrzeliśmy na to powinien być włączony w skuteczne działanie zarządzania projektami prawnymi i podatkowymi w organizacji. Dzisiaj chciałbym zająć się rozpoznaniem symptomów wskazujących, że potrzebujecie zarządzania projektami prawnymi i podatkowymi (dalej LPM Legal Project Management). Aby pomóc w rozpoznaniu tych symptomów potrzebujemy analizy organizacji, której pytanie o potrzebę LPM stawiamy. W celu przeprowadzania tej samo oceny postawimy parę pytań? To zaczynajmy …. Czy kontrolujesz i rozumiesz koszty i przychody swojej praktyki prawniczej lub…

During recent discussion on social media we touched the topic of delivering value to the client. I wanted to look at that through legal/tax/compliance project delivery perspective – what does it mean to deliver value to the client through legal project management ? First, and foremost, the value creation comes in many forms (more below) but it always needs to be based on client business problem solving or business opportunity creation. Project delivery approach to solve only “legal problems” through…

In the latest post we looked at topic of budgeting for Legal or Tax Projects. The other important point is looking what is the project return on investment (ROI). Project ROI is representing whether project has positive or negative result (gain or loss). Normally the ROI is calculated as Financial Project Value minus Project cost. Which in most cases is money value of project gains minus money cost of project. This can get complicated if other, non monetary elements get…

RPA (robotics process automation) has become standard for process streamlining in finance, accounting, HR, customer relations and many more. It is not strange to any professional from those industries that invoices are booked by software robots and financial operations are processed straight through set of   IT systems, software robots and bots. Is legal profession / tax operations ready for RPA? I believe yes, and the question is not if but when , but let’s see. Any process in order to…