What every lawyer needs to know about project management, Part 1 of 5” from Legal Business Development. Project management, the real kind, the kind that corporations spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars teaching their employees to do, isn’t easy. It’s not just a matter of picking up an outline and checking off the action items as they come in. It’s about striving to achieve maximum efficiencies, about studying problems and developing tactics to resolve them, about managing resources. This post, the first in what should be a useful series, offers lawyers a valuable perspective on applying project management techniques in the context of alternative billing arrangements.