See what I did there? 😉 In this post, Jim Gill of Hanzo discusses how improving the management of your legal department can lead to operational excellence!

In the blog post titled Operational Excellence Through Management of Corporate Legal Departments (available here), Jim discusses how to improve the management of your legal department in several areas, including project and program management, firm and vendor management, and financial management. Here’s what he has to say about project and program management:

Project / Program Management

Effective project and program management is critical to the success of any initiative within a legal department. However, many corporate legal departments lack the specialized program management skills and experience to implement effective initiatives at scale.

Corporate legal departments can achieve successful design, implementation, and leadership of department-wide and company-wide initiatives by staffing their program teams with trained project managers rather than lawyers. They must also design change management efforts that make the best use of their people and resources, engage and communicate with stakeholders across the company, and comply with corporate initiatives without compromising the quality or volume of ongoing work.

So, what does he have to say about firm and vendor management and financial management and how they lead to operational excellence? Find out here – it’s only one more click! And check out Jim’s first three posts in the series here, here and here! Project and program management, firm and vendor management, and financial management are three of the CLOC Core 12 functional areas for mature legal operations!

So, what do you think? How does your organization address legal ops? Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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