Junior Legal Project Manager â Litigation Arbitration and Employment (LAE International)
Junior Legal Project Manager â Litigation Arbitration and Employment (LAE International)
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Job Description
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Job Title
Junior Legal Project Manager Litigation Arbitration and Employment (LAE International)
Department
Finance - Legal Project Management
Office Location
London
Reports To
LPM Lead - LAE Practice Group EMEA
Working Hours
35 hours per week 9:30am to 5:30pm but additional hours may be required. We are happy to consider agile and flexible working patterns. Our approach to hybrid working allows for up to 40% of time working from home and 60% working in the officeplease contact a member of the recruitment team to discuss further.
Firm Description
Hogan Lovells is one of the leading global law firms. Our distinctive market position is founded on our exceptional breadth of our practice on deep industry knowledge and on our one team global approach. Formed through the combination of two top international law firms Hogan Lovells has over 40 offices in the Americas Asia-Pacific Europe the Middle East and Africa.
With a presence in the worlds major financial and commercial markets we are well placed to provide excellent business-oriented advice to our clients locally and internationally. Our people are the key to our success which is why we seek to recruit and retain the most talented individuals in all regions of our global practice.
Department Description
Supporting Hogan Lovells and its partners to be the market leaders in legal service delivery. Legal Project Management ensures an enhanced quality of service which is efficient innovative and our clients consider valuable.
Role Overview
Our global dynamic Legal Project Management team is looking for the right candidate to join our team to support the LAE International practice group.
Our LPMs are practice group aligned and contribute to our LPM best practices tools and techniques as well as provide user training on our legal project management framework and software. The successful candidate will work closely with partners high level business contacts and clients. The core responsibility of this role is to proactively manage matters through scoping budgeting resource planning monitoring and analysing.
Key Responsibilities / Accountabilities
Build deep relationships with partners lawyers and other Business Services teams.
Efficient management of matters including initial scoping budgeting and workstream planning as well as on-going matter management tracking and data analysis.
Ensure ongoing quality control for time recording and management of corrective action on matters.
Set up project plans and manage workstreams and deadlines throughout the lifecycle of a matter.
Issue regular fee and progress updates to matter teams / clients (as required).
Monitor scope and flag any out of scope work with matter partners.
Liaise with other business services teams (Pricing / Finance / IT / Knowledge / Marketing / Business Development etc.) and vendors to support partners and their clients / matters.
Identify opportunities for efficiency and innovation both at the matter level and the LPM program level.
Support the implementation use and development of LPM best practices tools and software.
Work within practice group aligned LPM teams reporting directly to the practice group LPM Lead.
Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Resilient and calm under high pressure.
Specific duties or responsibilities may be reviewed from time to time to reflect changes in personnel and management structure staff location or services.
All members of the firm participate in our Responsible Business program.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
At least 2 years of experience as an LPM with knowledge of project management methodology.
A project management qualification is desirable (Prince2 APM etc.)
Experience of client facing project management.
Law firm LPM experience required.
Experience with scoping budgeting project planning workflow management post-matter reviews.
Excellent analytical skills of firm financials.
Technical skills required include advanced Excel an understanding of PowerBI (or comparable business intelligence software) HighQ Collaborate and Smartsheet.
Deep knowledge of law firm management metrics and how day-to-day legal practice interacts with those metrics.
General Attributes
Ability to build relationships and networks internally and externally at all levels within the firm.
High degree of influencing skills and ability to instill confidence in others of proposed LPM solutions.
Ability to effectively promote and embed technology on a matter.
Excellent attention to detail with highly developed organisational skills.
Be a self-starting go-getter with an inquisitive mind and a love for problem solving.
Excellent written and verbal communications skills (writing and editing).
Work efficiently without direct supervision with the ability to multi task and be flexible with changing priorities.
Proactive and takes initiative.
Agile Working Statement
Our goal is to embed flexibility across our business by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis and we will be happy to discuss this further.
Equal Opportunities Employment Statement
It is the policy of Hogan Lovells to provide equal opportunities for all employees in relation to recruitment training and promotion. Decisions in these areas will be made only by reference to the requirements of the job and shall not be influenced by any consideration of racial or ethnic origin religion sex gender and gender identity age sexual orientation marital and civil partnership status pregnancy or disability.
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
