Legal Project Management Coaching & Training for Lawyers

Legal project management is one of the industry’s highest priorities. Clients are demanding more predictable legal costs, alternative fee arrangements, greater transparency, and more accountability. Law firms are trying to manage legal matters more effectively and efficiently while at the same time increasing profits and improving client satisfaction. Joan Newman & Associates specializes in legal project management enabling law firms and individual lawyers to address client demands and achieve firm goals in handling client matters.

Joan brings proven processes and executable best practices that result in managing legal costs, engaging appropriate resources, planning for contingencies, improving team and client communications, and delivering only required legal services. Her programs provide a disciplined and systematic approach to clearly define project scope, identify resources and constraints, develop budgets and timelines, keep matters on the critical path, and implement legal project management software.