change management: getting lawyers to adopt lpm
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Change Management: Getting Lawyers To Adopt LPM. Your speakers and moderator. Moderator: Scott David- Vorys Speakers: Scott Preston - ERM Legal Solutions Andrew Terrett - Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Joshua Fireman - Fireman & Company Heather Eskra – Seyfarth Shaw LLP. Audience Poll. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Change Management:
Getting Lawyers To Adopt LPM
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Your speakers and moderator
Moderator: Scott David- VorysSpeakers: Scott Preston - ERM Legal SolutionsAndrew Terrett - Borden Ladner Gervais LLPJoshua Fireman - Fireman & CompanyHeather Eskra – Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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Audience Poll
• I work in a…• We have been working on our Legal Project
Management initiative since:
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Agenda
1. What is Change Management2. What is LPM and why is Change Management
so important?3. Real world situations and tactics
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Change Management - the literature is immense...
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Legal Project Management
Project management - the discipline of planning, organizing, motivating and controlling resources to achieve specific goals
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Legal Project Management
Initiation
Planning
Execution
Monitor & Control
Completion
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What Problems does LPM Address?
• Clients want:• Price Certainty / Predictability• Transparency• Communication / Involvement• Win / Win – they want to improve their
profitability AND they want their law firm(s) to be profitable
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What Problems does LPM Address?
• Lawyers want:• Retain and Return Business• Client Satisfaction• Limit Risk• Help with Pricing / Make a Profit
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Who benefits from LPM?
• Client• Rainmaker• Performer• Management
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Why is Change Management important to
the adoption of LPM?• LPM represents probably the biggest change to
work methods - the actual practice of law in 50 years
• LPM impacts both the firm and the individual• LPM when properly implemented, will lead to
increased profits
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Audience poll time again...
• In terms of overall optimism/pessimism around your LPM initiative...
• Where does your management team stand in relation to your LPM initiative...
• How would you describe the culture of your organization in terms of accountability...
• The Change Management literature talks about the need to create “a burning platform” ...
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Change Management Factors
DM Email CRMTime Entry
Matter Intake LPM
Strategic valueNeutral Neutral High Neutral High High
Senior management support Low Low Neutral High Neutral NeutralCompensation impact Tough luck! Tough luck! Tough luck! High High Tough luck! Workflow impact
Neutral High High High High HighMetrics/measurability Bad Bad Bad High High High
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Signs of Change
AFAs
Margin pressure
Legal project managers
Compensation alignment
Profitability measures
$$$ budget
Management commitment
Time
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Characteristics of a Successful Legal Project
Manager• Credentials are important but not sufficient • Influence and Interact with Senior Partners• Ability to work within the Law Firm structure• Ability to understand Legal Processes• Being comfortable with being uncomfortable• Flexible not rigid
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Eyes Wide Open
• Senior management support requires more than well-meaning bromides
• Strategic value remains poorly defined by most firms
• Compensation impact is hard to discuss with your head in the sand
• High workflow impact change is rarely supported
• Metrics are often unmoored and adrift
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Are You an Optimist or a Pessimist?
• Be realistic about what your firm can achieve in the short-, medium- and long-terms
• All firms have caps on their ability to change
• Look to practices, client teams and industry groups – and pick likely winners (like IP at BLG)
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Getting Started
• Identify areas where you can lesson the pain. Projects or Cases that contain:• Aggressive timelines• Budget Constraints- AFA’s, history of large
write-off’s• Large volume of documents / data to manage• Multiple parties involved – Internal SME’s and
External Stakeholders• Complexity (phases)• Consider a pilot
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Transition through conversation
Moving one step from left to right per conversationshould be considered success…
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Consider your demographics
Lawyers aged 60+ are likely to be less motivated.Lawyers in the 35-55 age range are likely to be moremotivated. But there are exceptions to every rule…
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Understand lawyer personality types (Larry Richards)
*
According to the (Hogan Assessment)studies, lawyers are less sociable, Inquisitive, have less sensitivity but score higher on theirlearning approach.
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Case Study A- Multi-Million dollar M&A deal
• Approach was Traditional Project Management
• Upon Reflection approach was not agile enough
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Case Study A- Multi-Million dollar M&A deal
• Applied Agile techniques• phased approach• electronic scrum board• daily standups• two week sprints• retrospective
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Case Study B- Large Insurance Provider
• Challenges• High volume of routine litigation work• Alternative Fee Arrangement• Need for consistency and efficiency
across nationwide engagement
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Case Study B- Large Insurance Provider
• Services/Solutions Delivered• Legal Project Management
• Project Managers (and Legal Solutions Architect) involved in frequent VOC meetings with Client and Seyfarth partners
• Weekly meetings with lead Seyfarth partners to identify challenges and opportunities
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Case Study B- Large Insurance Provider
• Technology Solutions • SeyfarthLink- Client collaboration
platform• Document Automation• Custom Metrics
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Key Take Aways
• Change Management Literature- none written for Law firms
• Identify pain points in each practice areas• Be able to describe the benefits of Project
Management- gather metrics• Align compensation and credit to
incentivise commitment• Hire the right Legal Project Managers
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Key Take Aways
• Share success stories • Just in time training• Engage with clients through RFP, Client
Audit and direct conversation• Review financial Data to identify potential
pain points• LPM brings solutions for clients and
improved life for the attorneys
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Speaker contact information
• Heather Eskra – [email protected], (312) 460-6550
• Joshua Fireman - [email protected], @joshuafireman, (888) 701-4808
• Scott Preston - [email protected], @sapreston, (805) 262-7732
• Andrew Terrett - [email protected], @andrewterrett (416) 367-6497