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This guide provides a comprehensive workflow for managing complex, multi-year academic research projects targeting large, multi-round conferences (like SIGMOD). It details the five-act publication cycle, strategies for round selection under embargo periods, backward planning from paper cutoffs, and essential team coordination practices for sustained research development.

This advanced skill provides end-to-end management for external local counsel on multi-jurisdiction legal matters. It guides the entire process—from firm selection and engagement setup (including instruction design) through performance monitoring, scope enforcement, and relationship escalation. The focus is on the coordination discipline of Legal Project Management (LPM) to prevent common failure modes like scope creep and ambiguous instructions.