ATLANTA, Nov. 30, 2006 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Atlanta-based law firm Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP has taken another step toward patenting its pioneering Legal Project Management System.
The firm's system is designed to improve communication, enhance efficiency, and provide transparency in the delivery of legal services, while increasing the corporate client's involvement and control over the timing and costs needed to complete a legal project. A regular (non-provisional) patent application has been filed to seek patent protection for various novel aspects of applying project management methodologies to the rendering of legal services, as well as monitoring, tracking, and reporting progress to attorneys and clients in a more effective and client-visible manner.
"While project management is widely used in the business world, we feel confident that several aspects of our Legal Project Management System are new inventions," said John Harris, the partner in the firm's Intellectual Property Group who is handling the patent application. "We believe that our particular system provides a comprehensive approach that effectively captures, communicates, and tracks a legal project's unique requirements and allows for more real-time monitoring of progress, and making updates and changes during the life of the project."
The firm is currently using aspects of the system for transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property (such as patent and trademark prosecution), litigation/dispute resolution, and venture capital financing deals. The novel aspects of the system have broad applicability to many different types of legal services.
"The system improves communication and gives our clients a clear idea of the legal matter's status through every step of the transaction," added Grant Collingsworth, a co-inventor of the system. "The data collected, and the resulting project plan, allow for an ongoing stream of information between the legal service provider and the client."
"Morris, Manning & Martin's system helps to create a road map of a legal matter, defining the tasks, assignments and agreements, allowing us to identify and utilize the best and most efficient resources," added Linda Klausing, the firm's Director of Legal Project Management and a co-inventor of the System.
The named co-inventors include Collingsworth, Klausing, and firm partners Paul Arne and John Yates.
Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP, (www.mmmlaw.com) enjoys national prominence for its corporate finance, securities, litigation, technology, real estate and real estate capital markets, environmental, insurance and healthcare practices. The firm has offices in Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham and Princeton.