Legalboards Academy
Applying Agile to Legal Practices with John Grant
Master Agile for law firms with John Grant. Streamline workflows, reduce overhead, and enhance collaboration in this free video course.
Course Overview
Transform your law firm’s operations with Kanban and Agile methodologies taught by legal innovator John Grant. In this free course, you’ll learn:
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How Kanban evolved and why it’s ideal for legal teams
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Practical ways to visualize and manage complex caseloads
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Proven strategies to reduce non-billable work and client wait times
Enroll now to discover how Legalboards helps bring these principles to life, saving time and boosting firm productivity.
What You’ll Gain from This Course
Sharper Focus
Learn how to visualize every matter in a single glance, eliminate “What’s next?” guesswork, and channel your daily attention toward the tasks that actually move cases forward.
Team Collaboration
Turn scattered emails and status meetings into a shared Kanban board where attorneys, paralegals, and support staff stay aligned, share updates in real time, and hand off work without bottlenecks.
Greater Efficiency
Apply proven Agile principles to cut non-billable hours, automate repeat tasks, and finish matters faster—freeing up time for high-value work and boosting firm profitability.
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Course Curriculum
Your 9 Agile Lessons
Lesson 1: How to Tell If Kanban Could Work For You
In this lesson, you’ll learn how to identify if you should implement the Kanban methodology and how to get started.
Lesson 2: Applying Agile to Legal Practices with John Grant
An in-depth look at integrating Agile methodologies in a legal setting, guided by industry expert John E. Grant.
Lesson 3: Getting Started
Where and how should you start implementing Kanban? Let’s go over how to use what you already do and translate it into Kanban.
Lesson 4: Building a Board
Let’s walk you through how to build a Kanban board using Legalboards for our example firm.
Lesson 5: Boards As An Overview Of Workflows
Now that we know the framework and how to build a board, let’s step back and examine how to view the work we’ve completed so far.
Lesson 6: WIP Limits
In this lesson, we’ll dive into one of the concepts that John covered in lesson 2, WIP limits. You’ll learn how to apply them for effective management.
Lesson 7: Board Viewing Tips
Tips about how to best view your board so you can ensure you understand everything at a glance.
Lesson 8: Client Centric Operations
One of the most important benefits of using Kanban is the enhanced client experience. Let’s examine how to optimize your operations for clients.
Lesson 9: Conclusion
In this lesson, we’ll wrap up this course and the Agile concepts covered.
