Project Plus
Projects move quickly.
Contracts and insurance arrangements often do not.
Are you overwhelmed with the need to balance project delivery with business development, technical work and client management, leaving you with little time to chase contracts, coordinate advisers or ensure that risk management issues are being progressed?
Does this mean that in practice you might make some or all of the following common errors?
- Starting work on a project before contracts are agreed.
- Continuing work on a project where appointments remain unsigned.
- Working on a project where the scope is unclear.
- Working on a project where the contractual position in relation to liability and liability caps is unclear or uncertain.
- Working on a project where the insurance arrangements may not reflect the work being undertaken.
By the time a dispute, complaint or claim arises, we often see firms that are in the difficult position of having to defend allegations without clear contractual protections, agreed scope, limitation clauses or supporting documentation. Any uncertainty around appointments or insurance arrangements can significantly increase exposure, cost and stress.
Our Project Plus service is designed to help you reduce and avoid those risks.
We act as an extension of your team, helping coordinate and drive forward the practical steps needed to keep projects protected as well as progressing.
We help facilitate discussions between you, your lawyers, insurers, brokers and other advisers, ensuring actions are followed up, issues are identified early and key protections are not overlooked.
Support may include:
- Monitoring progress of contracts and appointments
- Facilitating communication between advisers and stakeholders
- Highlighting gaps or delays in insurance or contractual arrangements
- Chasing actions and keeping projects moving
- Providing regular progress/risk updates
- Escalating emerging issues to reduce the risk of disputes or claims
- Supporting smaller firms without dedicated legal or contracts teams
Think of us as the person at the front of the boat, beating the drum to keep everyone rowing together, in the right direction and at the right pace, identifying where progress has stalled, what needs attention, and helping move matters forward before delays become problems.
Because sometimes the biggest risk is not the project itself, it is being too busy delivering the work to put the right protections in place around it.