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I've been working with the Project Management Institute on establishing a new "Community of Practice" and recently was informed that the project has received the green light. What excites me about this is that this Community, dedicated to the management of legal projects, will have the backing of PMI, one of the largest professional organizations in the world, and certainly the largest project management organization. The PMI LPM CoP will involve PMI members, people who by their membership in PMI have shown a commitment to professional project management. By gathering together PMI members with experience or an interest in the managing of...

Steven Levy, principal at Lexician, blawger, and frequent commenter on this blog, has a book coming out, titled: Legal Project Management: Control Costs, Meet Schedules, Manage Risks, and Maintain Sanity. It will be published by Day Pack Books and will be available by the end of this month for $29.95 on Amazon.com. This is the first book that I'm aware of that is specifically focused on the topic of legal project management and I'm excited to get my hands on a copy. There is no way to pre-order at this time, that I'm aware of, but I'll be sure to...

Those of us who promote better project management in the practice of law sooner or later stumble into the debate over whether project management is a transplant from the business world that will eventually sap the professionalism out of law.  Is running a law firm like a business antithetical to law as an honorable profession? Last week the ABA Journal's News blog published a post about William Lancaste, a Seyfarth Shaw partner who is suing the firm after they demoted him to non-equity status. Mr. Lancaste claims that although he had a productive practice, he was a victim of the firm...

Yep, there's a day for that. In case you missed it, yesterday was International Project Management Day: http://www.internationalpmday.org/Well...if you are in New York, Louisiana, North Dakota, or Colorado (USA) then it was November 1st.If you are in Arkansas (USA), it was on November 2nd.If you are in Arizona or Michigan, you get a whole week to celebrate project management. November 1-8 for Arizon and October 30-November 6 for Michigan. For an "international" holiday, it seems to be mostly recognized in the United States, at least seven of the 50 states. A number of large corporations and PMI chapters around the world have, however,...

I just came across an Indian Express article from January, which states:If the Union Law and Justice Ministry has its way, the Indian judiciary will soon adopt the Six Sigma concept to improve its efficiency.  ...  A concept paper in this regard prepared by Union Law Secretary T K Vishwanathan, which will be sent to the Chief Justice of India, contains many other recommendations to speed up the judicial process and make the judiciary more transparent and accountable. All this, ministry sources say, will be implemented if the CJI puts his stamp of approval and once the Rs 442-crore e-courts project, being implemented...