About Us

The IILPM

We are a worldwide organisation of legal project management and legal process improvement experts focused on improving legal matter management and legal operations.

Since February 2017, we have provided research, published global practice guides and frameworks, developed workplace tools and delivered practical education that leads to internationally-recognized credentials.

We help lawyers and other legal professionals build their legal project management and legal process competencies and become more multi-disciplinary professionals.

The Institute has a network of Accredited Training Providers (ATPs), that alone, or in collaboration with University Partners, offer live courses in legal project management and legal process improvement that lead to globally-recognized certifciations.

IILPM course graduates come from law firms, in-house legal departments and courts from 60 countries.

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Our vision

The International Institute of Legal Project Management is enabling a new paradigm for the Legal Services Delivery Experience.

Traditional service models no longer meet the needs of stakeholders in the emerging legal ecosystem.

At the IILPM, we believe that by using human-centred project management and process improvement practices, legal professionals around the world can improve legal service delivery, independent if they are a law firm, in-house Counsel, juridical body or alternate legal service provider.

We establish global standards and a professional community to support, develop, certify and empower legal professionals who believe in positive change.

We define legal project management as the “application of project management principles and practices to enhance the delivery of legal services”.

Good legal service delivery requires effective systems and processes. We define legal process improvement as, “a structured methodology for optimizing legal and business processes, so that legal professionals can deliver high-quality, cost-effective services in less time and with less effort”.

Our focus is on team development, improved systems and processes through legal process improvements, and efficient matter management and in-house project initiatives through a legal project management approach, makes for better outcomes for delivering legal-based services.

Together, we are making a positive global impact on the practice of law.

List of Honorary Fellows

The IILPM Honorary Fellow List recognise independent and long-standing experts in legal project management or related fields that are acknowledged for their outstanding contributions and leadership to the LPM discipline (listed alphabetical by surname):

Micah Ascano, IILPM LPP (USA)

Larry Bridgesmith, FIILPM LPP (USA)

Mark Friston, FIILPM LPP (UK)

John Grant, FIILPM LPP (USA)

Dr Jim Hassett, FIILPM LPP (USA)

Susan Lambreth, FIILPM LPP (USA)

Aileen Leventon, FIILPM LPP (USA)

Steven Levy, IILPM LPP (USA)

Anna Marra, FIILPM LPP (Spain)

Caitlin Moon, FIILPM LPP (USA)

Shaun Plant, FIILPM LPP (NZ)

Roger Quick, FIILPM LPP (Australia)

David Rueff Jr, FIILPM LPP (USA)

Antony Smith, FIILPM LPP (UK)

IILPM Global Advisory Council

The IILPM Global Advisory Council (GAC) provides a governance role to the Institute.

Its core role includes approving and overseeing:

the Institute’s research, standards, guidelines, credentials, and publications;
the global events, including the annual IILPM Live and IILPM Global Awards; and
the accredited training providers (ATP) and academic partner institutes.

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(Located in Australia)

Dr Todd Hutchison

LLP PMP, Global Chairman

(Located in Spain)

Anna Marra

LLP FIILPM, Deputy Chair

(Located in the United States)

Larry Bridgesmith

LLP FIILPM, Council Member

Collaboration with Academic Institutions to deliver certification courses

Academic Institutions that desire to run accredited LPM courses to enable IILPM certification for their students can contact the IILPM or their regional ATP.

We are presently collaborating with the following Institutions: