ANALYSIS: In Legal Ops, Project Management Is Often Bypassed

Although legal ops professionals work on all kinds of projects that practically scream out for project management processes, few say they actually use such processes to increase the chances that their projects will succeed. And while the tenets of project management may seem overly formulaic or complex, legal ops professionals and their organizations stand to benefit from using project management processes.

Only 37% of respondents to Bloomberg Law’s 2021 Legal Operations Survey said their law firm or legal department uses project management processes—and even fewer use related processes such as Agile or Six Sigma.

These lower percentages are surprising, given ...