Project Principles for Managing Legal Cases

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Duration: 2 days

Target Audience: Roles in the organisation that are involved in participating and managing legal cases. This includes case management for internal disciplinary cases and company court cases.

Key Learning Outcomes

  • Understand the elements of the project management life cycle and how it applies to case work.
  • Know how to use project management tools and techniques for structured workflow planning - how tasks are structured, who performs them, what their relative order is, how to manage task and resource dependencies and build in the information flows to support the case through to conclusion.
  • Learn how to professionally manage your project stakeholder expectations and how you engage them throughout the project.
  • Discover how to manage multiple cases using standard workflows and project control principles to help you stay on top of your workload.
  • Use proven best practice methods to increase flexibility and develop greater adaptability to the changing business environment.

Course Delivery Includes:

  • Theory: Latest best practice
  • Team discussions
  • Individual and group exercises
  • Relevant case studies
  • Technique application practice
  • Personal action planning

 

Course Outline: Project Principles for Managing Legal Cases

DAY 1

Project Management Principles
Project Management definitions, important project variables and their impact on your projects
Key challenges in case management
Understanding the Project Life Cycle
Mapping the Project Life Cycle to the Case Management Process

Project Planning and Scheduling
Fundamentals of planning
Establishing Project Scope and Objectives
Creating a Work Breakdown Structure
Mapping out the Project Workflow
Finding the Critical Path
Key Roles and Responsibilities on a Case Project
Setting up a Project Governance Structure

Project Budgeting and Cost Management
Types of Project Budgets
Tracking Project Costs

DAY 2

Managing the Project Stakeholders
Identifying all your stakeholders
Developing a Communication Plan
Status reporting - getting the balance right
Dealing with lack of support

Techniques for Keeping the Project on Track
Project time management
Managing the project risks and issues
Keeping track of multiple cases

Closing the Project
Formal project closure - key considerations
Using the Project Review for continuous improvement to case workflow

Summaries
Summary of Project Management best practices for Case Management
Personal Action Planning