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The Second Edition of The Practice Group Leader’s Handbook for Success
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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.
The To ALSP or Not eBook, Carla Landry, published by LawVision (March 2021)
The LPM New Economic Reality eBook, by Carla Landry, published by LawVision (July 2020)
Articles
“Great Resignation or Great Reshuffle?” Legal Project Management – What is it and why should you care? | Susan Raridon Lambreth | ABA Law Practice Today | January 18, 2021
“Successful Law Firms Use Legal Project Management. Should You? Legal Project Management – What is it and why should you care? | Susan Raridon Lambreth | Above the Law | December 2021
LawVision Blogs
2025
Accountability vs. Autonomy – Is That Really the Question? | Susan Raridon Lambreth | March 8, 2025
2024
Legal Project Management is Giving More | Carla Landry | December 14, 2024
The Growing Role of Legal Project Management: Why LPM Professionals are Key to Law Firm Success | Susan Raridon Lambreth | October 29, 2024
Legal Project Management: What Can We Learn from Baseball | Carla Landry | October 1, 2024
Does Legal Project Management Beat Motivation? | Carla Landry | June 4, 2024
Practice Group Leader Roles – More than a Side Gig | Susan Raridon Lambreth | May 14, 2024
Three Ways to Foster Collaboration in Your Law Firm | Susan Raridon Lambreth | April 2, 2024
For LPM, Charisma is Undying Belief | Carla Landry | March 12, 2024
Unveiling the Power of Legal Project Management: Driving Performance Through Data | Susan Raridon Lambreth | February 20, 2024
What’s the Big Deal About Charisma? Here’s What LPM Leaders Really Need | Carla Landry | January 23, 2024
Generative AI: A New Tool for Legal Project Management | Susan Raridon Lambreth | January 9, 2024
2023
Is Charisma Necessary for LPM Leaders? | Carla Landry | November 28, 2023
The Inaugural Running Legal Like a Business Conference | Susan Raridon Lambreth | October 30, 2023
LPM Lessons from the Barbie Movie. Yes, Barbie. | Carla Landry | October 16, 2023
Practice Group Management: The Key to More Effective Use of Investment Time to Build Your Firm | Susan Raridon Lambreth | September 5, 2023
LPM: And the Quiet Ones will Lead Them | Carla Landry | July 31, 2023
Got Introverts? Your LPM Initiative Needs Them | Carla Landry | June 5, 2023
What Law Firm Practice Leaders Need Now: An Essential Handbook for Success | Susan Raridon Lambreth | May 29, 2023
“Keep it Short, We’ve Got Work to Do”: LPM Lessons from the Coal Mine | Carla Landry | April 11. 2023
The Gig is Up in 2023: Where’s Your LPM? | Carla Landry | March 14, 2023
From the Frontlines: The Latest in Legal Project Management | Susan Raridon Lambreth | March 7, 2023
Three Moves to Help Your Law Firm Thrive in 2023 | Susan Raridon Lambreth | February 7, 2023
The Emperor’s New Clothes: What a Fairy Tale Can Teach Us About LPM | Carla Landry | January 18, 2023
2022
To Secure Our Rightful Place: Just Keep Your People Trained, My Friends | Carla Landry | December 20, 2022
Legal Project Management. No Really. You’re Going to Get Your A$$ Kicked. | Carla Landry | November 8, 2022
Six Elements for Practice Group (and Practice Group Leader) Success | Susan Raridon Lambreth | September 20, 2022
Simon Says Mobilize Your Lawyers with an LPM Dream | Carla Landry | August 23, 2022
Curve Can Teach Us About LPM Adoption | Carla Landry | July 25, 2022
Lawyer: Starting with Why in Your Law Firm | Carla Landry | June 27, 2022
LPM: How to Like the Actions and Get the Results | Carla Landry | May 23, 2022
LPM in Practice: Bringing Atomic Habits to Law | Carla Landry | May 2, 2022
Winning the War for Talent with Your Practice Groups – Part 3: Is there any benefit of a “free market” system? | Susan Raridon Lambreth | April 26, 2022
Winning the War for Talent with Your Practice Groups – Part 2: Understanding the impact of lawyer attrition and taking action | Susan Raridon Lambreth | April 5, 2022
LPM: Wanting to Get Rid of Zombie Processes | Carla Landry | March 18, 2022
Winning the War for Talent with Your Practice Groups – Part 1: The role of Practice Groups (and Practice Group Leaders) in preventing the “Great Resignation” at your firm | Susan Raridon Lambreth | March 14, 2022
The Latest Trends and Data Points on Legal Project Management | Susan Raridon Lambreth | March 1, 2022
Legal Project Management: Have You Noticed Your Profits? | Carla Landry | February 21, 2022
What Do Atomic Habits Mean for Legal Project Management? | Carla Landry | January 25, 2022
2021
It’s Not the Same Thing: Lawyers Need Legal Project Management | Carla Landry | December 6, 2021
Legal Project Management – What is it and why should you care? | Susan Raridon Lambreth | December 14, 2021
How to Build and Scale Your LPM Team | Susan Raridon Lambreth | November 30, 2021
Enhancing Practice Group Performance – Part 2: Creating an Ownership Mindset | Susan Raridon Lambreth | November 2, 2021
Legal Project Management Isn’t a Silver Bullet, But it May Be a Superpower | Carla Landry | November 17, 2021
Enhancing Practice Group Performance – Part 1: Running Effective Practice Group Meetings | Susan Raridon Lambreth | October 11, 2021
Legal Project Management and the Baylor Law’s R6 Framework | Susan Raridon Lambreth | October 5, 2021
LPM Is For Individual Lawyers Too: Here’s What You Should Know | Susan Raridon Lambreth | September 7, 2021
Legal Project Management: The Second Generation | Susan Raridon Lambreth | August 30, 2021
A Growing LPM Community – Part 5 in a Series – Buy-in is Key to LPM Success | Susan Raridon Lambreth | August 23, 2021
A Growing LPM Community – Part 4 in a Series – When Relevance is the Question, LPM is the Answer | Susan Raridon Lambreth | August 17, 2021
A Growing LPM Community – Part 3 in a Series – Legal Project Management: Beyond Efficiency to Strategy | Susan Raridon Lambreth | August 9, 2021
A Growing LPM Community – Part 2 in a Series: When Should You Rollout LPM to the Masses? It’s About Demand | Susan Raridon Lambreth | August 2, 2021
A Growing LPM Community – Part 1 of a Series | Susan Raridon Lambreth | July 26, 2021
LPM: Easing into Innovation | Carla Landry | July 26, 2021
ALSPs: It’s Not If You’ll Use Them, It’s How | Carla Landry | June 21, 2021
Practice Group Success: Don’t Just Plan, Implement (Part 3) | Susan Raridon Lambreth | June 14, 2021
Practice Group Success: Don’t Just Plan, Implement (Part 2) | Susan Raridon Lambreth | June 14, 2021
The Role of Business Development in Legal Project Management | Susan Raridon Lambreth | May 31, 2021
So, What’s the Big Deal about Big Data? | Susan Raridon Lambreth | May 24, 2021
LPM – On the Cusp of Explosion? | Susan Raridon Lambreth | May 10, 2021
Before You Go ALSP, Assess What’s Broken | Carla Landry | April 10, 2021
A Growing LPM Community – In All Parts of the Legal Ecosystem | Susan Raridon Lambreth | April 6, 2021
Practice Group Success: Don’t Just Plan, Implement (Part 1) | Susan Raridon Lambreth | April 6, 2021
How Legal Project Management Can Tackle Stress and Burnout Attrition | Susan Raridon Lambreth | February 28, 2021
A New (and Unexpected) Tool for Improving Diversity and Inclusion — Legal Project Management | Susan Raridon Lambreth | January 26, 2021
Lawyers and Decisions: So Many Choices, So Little Time | Carla Landry | January 26, 2021
Empowering Lawyer Personalities for Successful Legal Process Improvement | Carla Landry | January 18, 2021
2020
Optimizing Practice Group Leader Performance (Part 2) | Susan Raridon Lambreth | December 16, 2020
How Can Managing Partners Optimize Practice Group Leader Performance? | Susan Raridon Lambreth | December 16, 2020
Rethink Your Practice Group Strategy – Part 3 | Susan Raridon Lambreth | December 16, 2020
To ALSP or Not. It’s Just Part of the Question | Carla Landry | December 16, 2020
Using the Power of Personality to Drive Law Firm Change (part 2) | Carla Landry | December 16, 2020
Herding Cats: Focus on the End Game | Carla Landry | December 16, 2020
ALSPs: Like Good Hand Hygiene for the Legal Industry | Carla Landry | December 16, 2020
The Practice Group Leader as Change Agent, Part 2 | Susan Raridon Lambreth | November 23, 2020
The Practice Group Leader as Change Agent, Part 1 | Susan Raridon Lambreth | November 17, 2020
Rethink Your Practice Group Strategy – Part 2 | Susan Raridon Lambreth | October 5, 2020
Rethink Your Practice Group Strategy – Part 1 | Susan Raridon Lambreth | October 5, 2020
What the Tech Are We Doing Now?| Carla Landry | October 5, 2020
Smart Workforce Strategies to Weather the Pandemic Storm | Susan Raridon Lambreth | September 14, 2020
LPM is Change for the New Economic Reality: Part Four of a Four-Part series | Carla Landry | September 11, 2020
LPM is Change for the New Economic Reality: Part Three of a Four-Part Series | Carla Landry | September 9, 2020
Working with Alternative Providers to Change a Company’s Use of Legal Services – an Interview with Connie Brenton of NetApp | Susan Raridon Lambreth | September 8, 2020
LPM is Change for the New Economic Reality: Part Two of a Four-Part Series | Carla Landry | September 4, 2020
Legal Project Management is Change for the New Economic Reality (Part One of a Four-Part Series) | Carla Landry | September 3, 2020
Why Clients Choose ALSPs? It’s Not About the Cost! Part 1 on Law Firm Competitiveness | Susan Raridon Lambreth | August 12, 2020
Driving Client Service and Improved Profitability through LPM | Susan Raridon Lambreth | July 6, 2020
Are You Leading Your Practice Group Effectively? | Susan Raridon Lambreth | June 9, 2020
Why Your Business Professional Team is Critical to Your Firm’s Viability Right Now | Susan Raridon Lambreth | April 27, 2020
Leading Successful Practices Through COVID-19 – Learn from Your Peers and Pay It Forward | Susan Raridon Lambreth | April 15, 2020
Don’t Make the Mistake of Stopping Your Practice Group Meetings Now – Best Practices for Running Them Virtually | Susan Raridon Lambreth | April 7, 2020
Smart Workforce Strategies to Weather the Pandemic Storm | Susan Raridon Lambreth | March 23, 2020
Social Distancing Creates the Space for Distance Learning | Carla Landry | March 22, 2020
2019
Why do They Need Training? LPM for All is Critical to Your Success | Carla Landry | October 15, 2019
Legal Project Management – What’s In It For the Smaller Law Firm? | Carla Landry | July 31, 2019
Legal Project Management: You (Still) Can’t Fake It Anymore – Part 3 | Susan Raridon Lambreth | February 7, 2019
The Evolution of LPM – Performance & Expectations | Susan Raridon Lambreth | January 24, 2019
2018
Are Your Practice Groups Working? 5 Reasons Why Law Firm Practice Management Structures Don’t Work | Susan Raridon Lambreth | September 18, 2018
Legal Project Management: Is It Really Worth It? | Susan Raridon Lambreth | March 29, 2018
Legal Project Management: It’s Not Just for Big Firms Anymore | Carla Landry | March 22, 2018
Legal Project Management: You Can’t Fake It Anymore (Part 2) – Service Delivery as Part of Strategy and Differentiation | Susan Raridon Lambreth | February 5, 2018
2017
Legal Project Management: You Can’t Fake It Anymore | Susan Raridon Lambreth | October 10, 2017
2016
Is Your Firm Looking for a LPM Technology Solution? | Susan Raridon Lambreth | December 16, 2016
Advanced Pricing Class | Susan Raridon Lambreth | September 6, 2016
Have the Millennials Figured it Out? | Carla Landry | July 29, 2016
Legal Project Management Certification Workshop Offered in London | Susan Raridon Lambreth | June 27, 2016
Do You Want to Hear A Few More Things About the Millennials? You Should. | Carla Landry | April 1, 2016
Should Lawyers be Project Managers? | Susan Raridon Lambreth | July 21, 2015
Trends and Developments in Successful Practice Groups – Part 1 | Susan Raridon Lambreth | December 20, 2014
Are You Willing to Change? | Carla Landry | February 18, 2014
Is it Possible to Carryover the Holiday Cheer? | Carla Landry | January 14, 2014
Still Want to Be a Lemming! | Carla Landry | December 10, 2013
Revisiting the Idea that Numbers Do Matter | Carla Landry | November 5, 2013
Efficiency, Culture and Cholera? | Carla Landry | September 24, 2013
Wait … Who Gets to Define Value? Understanding the Need for Efficiency | Carla Landry | August 27, 2013
Does Being Efficient Mean Your Work Becomes a Commodity? | Carla Landry | July 30, 2013
Why Are So Few Lawyers Willing to Assess How They’re Delivering Legal Services? It Might Just Be Who They Are | Carla Landry | July 10, 2013
What’s Wrong With This Process? Why Are So Few Lawyers Willing to Assess How They’re Delivering Legal Services? | Carla Landry | May 7, 2013
Still Asking Which Comes First – Project Management or Process Improvement? | Carla Landry | April 9, 2013
Is Legal Project Management Just One of Many Starting Points to Creating Effective Teams? | Carla Landry | February 14, 2013
Is Legal Project Management a Potential Solution to Creating Effective Teams? | Carla Landry | January 15, 2013
Turns Out Numbers Do Matter! | Carla Landry | December 4, 2012
What is Successful Legal Project Management? | Carla Landry | November 15, 2012
Using Legal Project Management for Competitive Advantage | Susan Raridon Lambreth | October 2, 2012
Covid- 19 Resources
Covid-19 and jobs: Monitoring the US impact on people and places (McKinsey & Company)
Covid- 19 Playbook (LawVision)
The Legal Profession in a “Post-Covid” World – Part 1 (LawVision)
The Legal Profession in a “Post-Covid” World – Part 2, The Role of The Client (LawVision)
The Legal Profession in a “Post-Covid” World – Part 3, The Changing Nature of the Firm (LawVision)
The Legal Profession in a “Post-Covid” World – Part 1, Preparing the Firm to Survive and Thrive Through Future Disruptions (LawVision)
Leading Successful Practices Through Covid-19 – Learn from Your Peers and Pay It Forward (LawVision)
Why Your Business Professional Team is Critical to Your Firm’s Viability Right Now (LawVision)
Don’t Make the Mistake of Stopping Your Practice Group Meetings Now – Best Practices for Running them Virtually (LawVision)
Smart Workforce Strategies to Weather the Pandemic Storm (LawVision)
The New Normal or Is it? What Working in the Office Could Look Like Going Forward (Thomson Reuters)
Getting Back to Work–Furia Rubel Communications (Furia Rubel)
EEOC What You Should Know About Covid-19 and ADA, Rehabilitation Act & EEO Laws (U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)
Covid-19 Response (Association of Legal Administrators)
Northeast Region COVID-19 FaceBook Group (Legal Marketing Association)
Covid-19 Collaboration & Resource Hub (Legal Marketing Association)
Well-Being Resource Center (Legal Marketing Association)
Recovery Readiness Guide – including office reconfiguration (Cushman & Wakefield)
Covid-19 Mental Health Resources (American Bar Association)
Covid-19 Toolkit (Australasian Legal Practice Management Association)
Covid-19 Resources (International Legal Technology Association)
Resilience in the Midst of the Covid-19 Crisis (RB Consulting)
When Crisis Calls: How Leaders Are Responding to Covid-19 (The Tilt Institute)
Guidelines for Businesses and Employers to Plan, Prepare & Respond to Covid-19 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
General Resources
Law Firm Billing In a Crisis: Beware the Optics of Discounts (Thomson Reuters | Legal Executive Institute)
Building Long-Term Sustainability into Short-Term Decision-Making (Legal Value Network – Stuart Dodds | Positive Pricing and Marcie Borgal Shunk | The Tile Institute)
Pricing Approaches in Challenging Times (Positive Pricing)
Pricing with Confidence (Legal Marketing Association)