About us

Project management  

Our approach

Our clients have told us that, when it comes to major international law firms, the skills of the people and the advice they give is pretty much assured. What needs to improve is reliability and predictability. Too often, planning and transparency are missing.

In response, we have invested more than £10m in:

• developing innovative project management processes to provide transparency
• installing new IT systems to support our project management approach
• training all of our people to apply our project management methodology.

What are the benefits?

A law firm that provides outstanding service (because there's no guessing about what you want). Our project management approach ensures effective planning, communication and genuine cost predictability.

In short, we are lawyers you can count on.

Predictability and measurability

Every one of our lawyers has been trained in our project management approach and uses either our RAPID Resolution process for contentious matters or our DealTrack methodology.

Every job we do for you will be fully scoped and planned. We put real effort into understanding your key commercial issues, then agree with you how we are going to achieve them.

This approach is driven by constant communication and control to ensure the project is delivered to your requirements. Robust scoping and review methods and regular communication ensure predictability and that there are no surprises.

Our approach is well established, and it works. For example, in nine out of ten cases, when it comes to disputes our methodology has achieved the best possible outcome agreed at the outset with our clients.

Predictable costs

We will never charge you for anything you have not agreed in advance. Sometimes there are unexpected turns that can have a serious impact on costs and timescales. If so, we will revise the costs and timescales, then agree them with you before undertaking further work. With project management, you always remain in control.

Regular communication

As part of the initial scoping and planning we will ask you how and when you want us to communicate with you: by e-mail, phone or fax? Every day, once a week, once a month? We'll ask how you would your like your legal advice: highly detailed or a quick one page summary?

Listening to what you have to say

Throughout the project we will continually review our plan to ensure it is still relevant and effective, and will adapt it if necessary. Being predictable doesn't mean a lack of flexibility: we continuously monitor all work so that you get the best result.

Continuous improvement

As part of our drive for service excellence, once a job is complete we will ask for your feedback so we can learn lessons that will help us to provide an even better service in the future.

This is what Eversheds means by project management – a first-rate legal service backed by rigorous cost control and total accountability, every step of the way.