Map the matter before the race starts
Create a first-week litigation work map that separates pleadings, facts, discovery, budget, decision rights, and risk.
A new lawsuit is not one project. It is a portfolio of linked workstreams. The manager's first job is to make the work legible. A work breakdown structure decomposes a big objective into manageable deliverables. In litigation, that means separating the case into the streams that actually create outcomes: pleadings, facts, witnesses, discovery, experts, motions, budget, settlement, communications, and trial readiness. Why this works Litigation teams often lose time because everyone is technically busy but no one can see the whole system. Counsel drafts the answer, IT waits for preservation scope, finance asks for budget certainty, and the client executive…
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