Starting to blog
I have spent the last couple of years working in law firms, having been out of the profession for over ten years. I returned as a legal project manager; the profession has moved on, I thought.
But what I have found is, well, pretty much the same as I left it. Lawyers are doing the same things as before, pitching for work in the same way as before, reporting to clients in the same way as before. They’re doing it with newer technology, on iPads, mobile phones, cleaner and more user friendly software. But take away this newer technology and you could be sat in the late 1990s.
There are a number of eminent commentators on the subject, but many who are professors of this, or directors of that. I work on the coalface, in a small team of top quality lawyers, and I want to describe, share, and generally put forward my own thoughts and experiences of implementing legal project management, and probably law firm management as a whole.
I will clearly be anonymising everything, and will state here, as well as everywhere else I can, that these views are my own, and not of any current or previous employer.