LAW 613 - Legal Project Management

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As clients demand more efficiency in the delivery of legal services and insist on law firms offering alternative fee arrangements, legal project management is becoming a necessary discipline for lawyers to effectively manage legal matters. Traditional project management principles have application to legal matters. It provides a framework for lawyers, clients, and related service providers to routinely manage legal matters and create economies of scale by following the step-by-step process. This course will introduce students to the knowledge areas of project management including scope, time and cost management. Students will learn the tools and techniques available in each area and apply them in a practicum of a real-life litigation or transactional matter. This course will be graded primarily by an examination.