Legal project management

At Browne Jacobson we bring together legal, commercial and strategic experience with project management methodologies to streamline and enhance the delivery of your project or legal matter.

Our Legal Project Management (LPM) specialists are experienced project managers with legal backgrounds, their key priority being to ensure your project or legal matter is delivered on time, within scope and on budget. By separating out the operational aspects from the technical legal advice, our lawyers can focus fully on the legal delivery while our LPM team drives delivery, efficiency, and transparency.

We recognise legal services are one component of broader client objectives. Our LPM and legal teams integrate into our core project delivery team, making your aims and objectives our priority.

Collaboration drives our approach regardless of scale or complexity - bringing together clients, lawyers, support teams, and technology for optimal service delivery. Our LPM approach is tailored project-by-project around our core methodology, with legal project managers serving as your operational delivery contact alongside client partners and the wider legal team.

Insurance client

"...your project management team was invaluable... and we’ve endorsed you for the Innovative Partner Award at the Insurance Awards."

What we do

Integrated project support: Implement comprehensive project management methodology and tools throughout matter lifecycles, providing clients with full visibility through scoping, planning, tracking, risk management, financial oversight, and tailored reporting.
Stakeholder and risk management: Provide enhanced communication planning and active risk management, whilst leveraging technology to ensure efficient collaboration between all parties, adapting to evolving project needs.
Flexible delivery: Adaptable project management approach to ensure seamless project delivery, whether for single-focus projects or high-volume, process-driven instructions, with client objectives at the core.
Technology solutions: Facilitate the embedding of innovative technology solutions in partnership with client solutions teams to improve efficiency and deliver unique solutions.

Key features and benefits of LPM

	Features	Benefits
1. Define/Scope	Strategic scope clarification Comprehensive stakeholder mapping Precise objective setting	Clear deliverables and costs expectations Proactive scope management Aligned goals between client and firm
2. Plan	Optimised resource allocation Detailed timeline creation Thorough risk assessment	Predictable budgets Achievable deadlines Risk clarity and foresight
3. Deliver	Dynamic progress tracking Seamless communication protocols Active cost and risk management	Increased transparency over deliverables Streamlined execution Controlled spend and proactive risk management
4. Close	Comprehensive outcome evaluation Valuable lessons captured Strategic knowledge retention	Measured success and impact clarity Proven best practices Enhance future performance

Global retailor nationwide store rollout

We partnered with our real estate team and client leadership team to coordinate all workstreams - legal and operational - across an ambitious UK-wide store expansion programme.

Delivered clear project structure, streamlined processes, and eliminated rollout delays through proactive risk mitigation. Our real-time reporting dashboard, coupled with strategic weekly client sessions, ensured consistent on-time delivery.

Challenger bank transformation

Delivered hundreds of contract updates and repapering transactions over a three year mandate for a leading London challenger bank.

Collaborated with in-house technology specialists to engineer a portal to steamline the full process, from uploading client instructions to generating documents and capturing digital signatures.

Result: Consistent, efficient delivery meeting ambitious timeframes through smart innovative automation and smooth workflow integration.

Complex UK-wide change masterplan

Provided legal and LPM support on wide ranging environmental assessments to a national regulator for a significant nationwide change masterplan.

LPM coordinated a complex multi-stakeholder ecosystem - managing two environmental consultancies alongside legal teams while managing overlapping responsibilities and timelines.

Provided detailed project planning, senior level oversight, strategic reporting, and lessons learned sessions - ensuring flawless delivery of essential changes to UK-wide change planning.

US insurer UK market entry

Engaged by a US insurer to support their strategic entry into the UK insurance market. Supported their senior leadership team by navigating complex legal and regulatory challenges.

Our expert project planning, proactive risk management, and weekly coordination sessions with legal teams and senior leadership ensured seamless deadline delivery. Recognition: Nominated for Innovative Partner at the prestigious Insurance Awards.