Few people in legal operations discuss project management in the same sentence with electronic discovery. When the subject does arise you hear people toss around phrases like “legal project management,” or you hear talk of organization-wide process improvement efforts. Mostly, it’s about finding ways to be more efficient. But organization-wide project management initiatives require high-level buy-in and lots of resources...
If there is one cause of consternation among law firms, consultants and service providers –those who mostly collect and process ESI—it is a project in which the client organization has poor information governance practices. I am reminded of this because a few weeks ago at The Master’s Conference in Washington, D.C., I told the audience that information governance practices are...
I like oatmeal. It has been around forever and I eat it a lot. Project managers have also been around forever. When they built the pyramids in Egypt or the Great Wall in China there was likely someone there who planned, directed, monitored and controlled the work. Although clearly the workers back then were not anything like the organized labor...