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About the Course
Introduction
This CLE webinar will guide counsel on firm management to minimize the risk of burnout. The presenter will offer practice steps for agile project management.
Description
"Self-care without team care is futile." This is the starting point of this talk. Many people have described the practice of law as toxic, but that toxicity is also how we feel we "have to get things done." What if you could change that? As a partner, law firm manager, or managing attorney, you can. Over the course of an hour, you will be introduced to agile project management techniques that you can implement, immediately, as well as principles and approaches to change the way you see firm management. We will cover the three pillars of the Livable Law legal project management method: tasks, time, and things. You will be able to implement scrum meetings, task lists, efficient calendaring, and document organization.
Specialty credit information:
- This webinar qualifies for an ethics credit in Alaska, Connecticut, Guam, Hawaii, New Hampshire, New York, and North Dakota.
- This webinar qualifies for a professional responsibility credit in Arizona.
- This webinar qualifies for a competence - wellness credit in California.
- This webinar qualifies for a mental health/substance abuse credit in Oregon and the Virgin Islands.
- This webinar qualifies for a personal development and mental health credit in Washington.
Presented By
Dr. Carminati, Esq., JSD, is a space lawyer, an eDiscovery attorney, legal project manager, and a former litigator with over a decade of experience. She has co-authored a book about space law and authored a space law textbook covering the management of liability for commercial human spaceflight operators. In October 2021, Dr. Carminati published a guidebook to her agile-based project management approach, The Livable Law Method. Dr. Carminati has an LLM in Space, Cyber & Telecommunications Law, and a JSD in Space Law. She is a certified legal project manager, a certified eDiscovery specialist, and a litigator with over a decade of experience. Dr. Carminati is licensed in Texas, Colorado, California, DC, and New York. Dr. Carminati uses her decade-plus of litigation experience, in federal and state courts, as well as a track record creating her own law firm (The Woman's Lawyer), to bring practical solutions to law firms.
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This 60-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.0 CLE credits.
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Live Online
On Demand
Date + Time
- event
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
- schedule
1:00 PM E.T.
I. Introduction
II. Unlivable law paradigm and why it matters
III. Implementing LPM
IV. Livable law method
V. Team matrix and backlog
VI. Scrums, swamp outs, and other types of meetings
VII. Time management
VIII. Information storage and communication
The panel will review these and other key issues:
- Understand the principles of agile project management and how to apply them to a law firm
- Understand the structure of a scrum meeting
- Understand how to design and implement an ongoing task list
- Learn how to create and use a backlog
- Become attuned to the symptoms and cost of burnout on your team
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