By: Connie Brenton and Susan Raridon Lambreth

Overview

Legal operations management is the linchpin required to run today’s complex, often massive, in-house legal teams effectively. Many general counsel have come to realize that they want and need to run their legal departments like a business and that effective legal management now includes planning, financial management, vendor management, technology management, and legal data analytics. With contributions from more than two dozen experts in enterprise legal management, legal strategy, legal technology, cybersecurity, and alternative legal services, Running Legal Like a Business: The Fundamentals of Legal Operations for Law Departments is a go-to handbook for legal professionals looking to drive operational excellence.

Running Legal Like a Business provides new and seasoned practitioners alike—as well as those with a need to know about legal operations—with critical insights into managing their legal operations. Delving into the drivers of the evolution of legal operations as an in-house function and as a profession, the book covers key elements of effective legal operations management, including:

• How to share critical information and demonstrate the legal department’s value through thoughtful and directed reporting on legal department activities
• The power and possibilities of a single enterprise legal management platform
• Developing, communicating, and managing the annual budget process
• Selecting and implementing the right eBilling platform
• Creating a data driven legal department
• How to identify and apply the right metrics and data to assist strategic and tactical day-to-day decision-making
• Creating more persuasive business presentations
• Legal project management
• Cybersecurity and risk management
• Innovation and right-sourcing
• Legal technology management
• Branding
• Creating winning award submissions

Legal innovation award winning authors provide actionable advice and a single source for developing a metrics program, securing better budgets, improving your approach to diversity, equity and inclusion, and leveraging playbooks for greater efficiency.

The Practice Group Leader’s Handbook for Success, Second Edition,   

Price $199.00 (contact Eva Booth at eva.booth@lawvision for pricing when purchasing 5 or more books)

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First published in 2005, The Practice Group Leader’s Handbook for Success was the first and still the only book written to provide law firm practice leaders with strategic and tactical advice on how to do their job effectively and still maintain their personal practice.  It was considered a critical desk reference for practice group leaders across many leading firms. The second edition not only provides important new information on the topics covered in the earlier edition but also includes new material on leadership vs. management, understanding lawyer personality traits, creating engaged practice group members, being a change agent, managing teams and workload, and reducing attrition.  The book also includes background on best practices for successful practice management structures in firms and model documents for practice group leaders and practice group professional job descriptions. The appendices also offer reference material on setting your practice management structure up for success, job descriptions for practice leaders and practice group professionals, and business planning templates – to name a few.

In a compact, easy-to-follow format, this indispensable resource is for legal professionals who want to understand and leverage LPM, gain a leg up on the competition, and deliver the increased value today’s clients’ demand. Written for lawyers and other legal professionals by lawyers, the book…

• Is a step-by-step guidebook geared to helping an individual lawyer or other legal professionals to implement legal project management immediately.
• Covers the ethical issues of implementing LPM.Contains immensely useful advice for legal professionals seeking practical tips and guidance on providing increased value to clients.
• Can be used in applying LPM principles to a matter from start to finish or in small pieces.

Contains detailed implementation checklists and forms.

You’ll find all the tools and methodologies you need to begin immediately integrating LPM into your practice.

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By: Susan Raridon Lambreth and David A. Rueff, Jr.

This comprehensive reference guide provides lawyers with a complete and comprehensive review and discussion of legal project management, including the business case, the definitions and application, ethical considerations, and the issues and constraints in implementation. This simple, easy-to-use framework can be applied in any firm or practice area from start to finish.

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