Posts by India Preston
10 Use Cases for Lupl Workstreams
Workstreams are an infinitely flexible way to plan, organize and deliver legal work. Here are 10 easy ways Workstreams can streamline your next matter, beyond pure task management. Build and manage a budget Tired of building a budget and scope in Excel, Outlook or Word? Build and manage your scope, budget and assumptions with Lupl’s…
Read MoreWhat is Legal Project Management?
All the way back in 2013 when I was working as a paralegal, the term legal project management (LPM) began to make waves in the US, and since then it’s slowly seeped its way into the wider legal world. Everyone’s heard of it, but few actually understand it. Is it just a new buzzword for…
Read MoreWhat You Don’t Know About Legal Matter Management in 2023
You work on matters every day — collaborating with your team, seeing what updates are coming in, talking to outside counsel and clients. You know all about the challenges involved in legal matter management and you know how it works. Right? Well, maybe not as much as you might think. How legal teams are managing…
Read MoreWhere Lupl Matters: Managing an International Regulatory Project
What is it? Regulatory frameworks are legal mechanisms that exist across most sectors and around the world. They are designed to control and monitor organizations and sectors in order to protect consumers, investors and the environment, among other things. Each jurisdiction has its own set of rules in line with its cultural and constitutional values,…
Read MoreWhy is Law Firm Project Management still so hard in 2023?
In today’s ultra-competitive market, law firms are in a constant battle to provide superior service while cutting costs and boosting profit. It’s no surprise that legal project management has grown in importance. In an attempt to streamline and speed up processes, many law firms are looking to legal project managers to save the day. Organizations…
Read More12 Best Legal Matter Management Software Tools in 2023
Let’s be honest, legal case management can be hard. You’ve got to communicate with everyone: colleagues, clients, and internal and external counsel. There are sensitive documents, research, and case information to manage and store. Then you’ve got all those checklists of tasks to assign, track, and tick off. To make matters worse, legal tech has…
Read MoreWhere Lupl Matters… Corporate Due Diligence
What is it? Corporate Due Diligence (DD) takes place in the early stages of buying a company. It is led by the lawyers acting on behalf of the buyer of or investor in a company. The process involves an investigation into the target company by reviewing the legal, financial and commercial risks of the acquisition.…
Read MoreWhat You Didn’t Learn About Legal Project Management in Law School
Law school taught you a lot. But amid the lessons on black letter law and how to give legal advice, one thing was missing: how to use this knowledge to actually deliver solutions to your clients. Do you remember those modules on the best way to complete tasks? Or those seminars on how to price,…
Read More5 Powerful Features of Lupl You Might Not Know About
Let’s be honest, legal technology has been slow to move with the times. With only 37% of law firms currently using legal tech, many lawyers are forced to battle with systems that are clunky and impractical. So unsurprisingly, 60% of lawyers are dissatisfied with their tech stack.1 2 But all that’s about to change. New…
Read More10 LPM Templates to Speed Up Client Delivery
As lawyers, legal project management is your bread and butter. It’s what you’re doing every day: gathering information, ticking off tasks, communicating with clients. And you’re not working on one matter at a time. You need to stay on top of multiple cases. And because it’s so fundamental to your business, it’s easy to pass…
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