Good legal service delivery requires effective systems and processes. Therefore, AP legal is employing a structured methodology for streamlining both legal and business operations so that legal professionals can deliver high-quality, cost-effective services in less time and with less effort.
Our team is applying project management principles and practices to enhance the delivery of our legal services. We encompass not only project tools and techniques to legal practice but also include legal process improvement strategies, enabling technology, and a focus on the folks’ dynamics.
In our practice, we follow the Legal Project Management Framework, which recognises external influencing factors of the legal market, regulatory and commercial aspects. The framework considers the project life cycle stages of define, plan, deliver and close, and the key functions and elements for each. People and organisational capability elements are also being taken into consideration. The framework illustrates productivity tools and enabling approaches.
In terms of competency, AP Legal is following an international standard that sets out the competency skills for both the Legal Project Associate and the Legal Project Practitioner levels. A competency assessment model is used in assessing gaps in the capabilities and growth opportunities for those who are assessed. The model looks toward both the legal environment knowledge and legal project management-specific knowledge. Five key knowledge areas are considered:
Technology is revolutionising the legal sector. During the pandemic of Covid-19, Saudi Arabia became a pioneer in digital transformation. E-government programs have been lunched especially and effectively in the judicial system as digital processes have replaced traditional processes. AP Legal was ready with a robust tech infrastructure, and AP Legal team dealt with this evolvement with a high level of competency and delivered high-level quality services.
Applying technology increases efficiency and transparency, promotes easy research, and allows easier information retrieval. Therefore, modern tech solutions such as legal research solutions and legal software are embedded in AP Legal team everyday routine. With these modern tech solutions, the firm routine tasks are now more accessible and more efficient. AP Legal clients are also engaged via the technological process as they are enabled to track and request services. This advent use of legal tech results in greater transparency between AP Legal and our clients.