At Browne Jacobson we connect commercial and strategic experience with project management methodologies to transform your project or legal matter. Our Legal Project Management (LPM) specialists are market leaders in making sure your project or legal matter is delivered on time, within scope and on budget. We increase efficiency, keep you informed and provide long-lasting peace of mind.
Our lawyers and legal project managers stand out because we make the complex simple and find creative solutions to even the most challenging needs. Our LPM specialists know how to draw together best practice from across business and society, as well as specialist insight into key industries and the big issues that affect us all.
We combine industry leading technologies, exceptional people, tried-and-tested processes, and project management methodologies to help your matter or project run seamlessly. Your tailored, online reporting dashboard will provide you with essential management information to support matter reporting, scope and budgetary control – ensuring transparency at each step of the way.
Your aims and objectives are our priority. Regardless of scale or complexity, collaboration underpins our approach. Your dedicated Browne Jacobson legal project manager will be your go-to contact for service delivery. Working with your designated Client Partner, together they’ll have years of experience in reducing the unexpected, managing risk, providing open, enhanced communications and leveraging technology designed to ensure that key stakeholders can work in tandem to adapt to the changing needs of your project.
Providing essential project management support for a national regulator. We worked with them throughout a two-year, high-profile public sector environmental project.
Working with our Government legal team as they adopted LPM principles and methodology, while acting for a government body during a significant national public inquiry.
A few weeks ago we brought you news that following the Government’s mini-budget it was confirmed that the off-payroll working rules (known as “IR35”) put in place for public and private sector businesses from 2017 and 2021 would be scrapped from April 2023.
The concept of Legal Project Management (“LPM”) is increasingly relevant to the delivery of legal services, both in-house functions and private practice law. This is unsurprising, LPM is crucial if lawyers are to add value by controlling budgets, communicate pro-actively on risk mitigation and costs, and manage time by resourcing to deal with pinch points in the project.
The focus on the Levelling Up agenda and the availability of grant funding, means there are numerous important regeneration schemes actively being pursued across the country. With ever-escalating project and building costs, in many cases, applications that were made for grant funding were based on costs contingencies that have already been exceeded.
By the time PFI really got into its stride in the early 2000s, standard form contracts had pretty much nailed down the terms and anticipated anything that might happen, good or bad, during the course of the 25 years it covered.
This on-demand webinar is suitable for legal and procurement specialists operating within publicly funded contracting authorities.
This article covers, at a high level, some of the legal issues that arise in the lifecycle of the innovation and deployment of new technology within the energy sector. It is not intended to be a comprehensive account of all legal aspects.
In this article, we summarise the key headlines of the IPA’s guidance released on 28 February 2022 & pick out what contracting authorities need to know.
The Cabinet Office updated Procurement Policy Notice 09/21 and accompanying guidance in December 2021, which replaces PPN 07/21. We outline its scope, associated guidance and impact for contracting authorities.
Browne Jacobson’s specialist government and infrastructure team have advised Canford Renewable Energy Ltd on the delivery of its Dorset Green H2 facility.
More needs to be made of these procurement routes, with clients honouring the original concept rather than watering down concepts.
This article looks at the impact of Part 3 of the Environment Act 2021 on waste collection authorities, including measures to reduce packaging waste, to encourage re-use and recycling and changes to the way waste will be collected.
Former Managing Partner turned coach, Iain Blatherwick reflects on how the challenges of retaining top talent have become more complex over the last 18 months and some steps to safeguard against this.
Former Browne Jacobson Managing Partner turned coach, Iain Blatherwick builds on recent articles about mental wellbeing for leaders and the importance of culture to consider leadership in a crisis.
In the latest in our occasional series Iain Blatherwick, former Managing Partner of Browne Jacobson and now a management coach, reflects on the importance of culture to law firms’ survival over the past ‘Covid months’ and the importance of building on strong foundations.
Key areas of support offered by the IPA under the ‘Managing the Risks of PFI Contract Expiry’ plan to aid public bodies.
Former Browne Jacobson Managing Partner turned coach, Iain Blatherwick briefly outlines the pressures and responsibilities that come with leading a successful law firm and highlights the importance of why mental wellbeing should be high on every law firm leader’s personal agenda.
We consider key actions for public authorities in managing the PFI handover process.
As we await the publication of the Government’s White Paper on local government reorganisation (LGR) it felt timely to reflect on the experiences of the previous Managing Partner (MP) of Browne Jacobson on leading an organisation through change.
Browne Jacobson and Agilia are delighted to invite you to our on-demand webinar in which we will be looking at the key issues and best practice, which every affected authority needs to know, to assist them in the management of this challenge and the development of a strategy for preservation or replacement of assets and the re-procurement of key services.
Major parts of the infrastructure in the UK are currently managed under PFI contracts and their contribution to public service delivery is substantial. In the context of the Covid 19 crisis, therefore, their continuing role is of critical importance to essential services.
Public and private bodies throughout the country are exploring their options for developing new networks and expanding existing networks, both with and without central government support.
Frameworks feel like an institutional part of public procurement in the UK and in Europe. Last year Browne Jacobson undertook some market research with the CBI to look at public procurement from the private sector perspective.
15 employees from law firm Browne Jacobson have successfully passed an innovative Chartered Management Institute (CMI) programme on project management run in partnership with Nottingham Trent University Business School.
