Legal Operations Manager, Outside Counsel and Spend Management

Your Career

This role will support Palo Alto Networks legal department by optimizing outside counsel management and spend. This individual will manage outside counsel engagements including selection onboarding performance evaluation and billing review. They will also maintain legal technologies and processes for ebilling matter management and spend analytics. This role will report into the Director Head of Legal Operations and collaborate with internal legal teams finance and outside counsel.

Your Impact

• Oversee quarterly and annual budget planning with Finance across legal practice areas.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to forecast and budget legal spend.

• Develop and implement strategies to reduce outside counsel spend while maintaining quality.

• Implement a toptier law firm panel program (preferred vendor panel) and a spend optimization strategy with outside counsel.

• Manage onboarding for new firms selection and performance evaluation of outside counsel.

• Negotiate and manage outside counsel billing rates and alternative fee arrangements.

• Oversee ebilling ensuring accuracy and compliance including invoice review and processing.

• Develop and maintain legal spend analytics and reporting to identify trends cost drivers and savings opportunities.

• Implement and manage legal technology solutions for outside counsel management ebilling and spend analytics including systems implementations training and user support.

• Stay current on industry best practices for outside counsel management and legal spend optimization.

• Train internal legal teams and outside counsel on billing guidelines ebilling processes and relevant topics.

• Drive continuous improvement in legal operations processes and systems.

• Develop strong collaborative relationships with crossfunctional partners.

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• A selfstarter with enthusiasm who can work independently with minimal oversight on certain projects but who is also a team player and can support projects when needed. Must have a passion for operations willing to take on diverse projects.

• Excellent analytical negotiation and communication skills.

• Ability to manage multiple projects and prioritize effectively.

• Impeccable attention to detail and exceptional professional judgment. Excellent organization and communication skills with the ability to develop implement and enhance processes.

• Ability to execute under pressure and within tight timelines while juggling multiple projects.

• 7 years of experience in legal operations focused on outside counsel management and understanding of legal billing practices/ebilling systems.

• Experience with legal technology solutions including matter management ebilling and spend analytics platforms.

Additional Information :

The Team

We are a Legal Team who is unrelenting in our pursuit of achievement we are constantly seeking improvements and can take on every challenge. We value a positive attitude and high empathy. We adjust according to the situation learn new things innovate and try new methods. We value collaboration function as a team and know that our colleagues experience and knowledge are valuable. We demonstrate the highest level of adherence to not only what is legal but also what is right. We apply our legal knowledge to realworld scenarios have a desire to explore the unknown and question the status quo in pursuit of better more effective solutions.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications experience and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level the starting base salary (for nonsales roles) or base salary commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $142000 $178000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating together.

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Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran status race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or other legally protected characteristics.

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