Legal Project Manager Corporate

The role

You will work day to day on a range of projects (legal matters) working across multiple Clients / sectors. These multi-disciplinary teams will be made up of Trainees Lawyers Partners Legal Tech Advisors Secretaries Business Development Billing and anyone else in the firm who forms part of a client matter or deal team. The focus of each of the teams you work with is to serve the Client and to deliver excellent legal advice and guidance and to conclude the matter successfully.

You will need to establish strong relationships with Partners Lawyers Legal Support Secretarys and Billers. You will be able to develop sustainable relationships understanding stakeholder needs identifying ways to address needs and demonstrate influencing skills to deliver the business objectives.

You will collaborate with other Legal Project Manager colleagues around our global network. You will also work closely with Legal Technology Delivery Advisors Transformation Managers Resource Managers Pricing Specialists and Delivery Centres professionals.

We are the front runners of change delivery in the legal sector and everyone who joins our team becomes an integral part of shaping a rapidly developing area of law that is critical to the Firms strategy.

• You will assist with the preparation of all project initiation documentation such as prepare scope resourcing and budget proposals for relevant matters or workstreams and then track progress against those proposals
• You will dissect problems and processes and apply logical and analytical approaches to solving them
• You will positively influence the individuals you work with (across a range of roles and seniority) to change and adapt their ways of working
• You will clearly explain theoretical concepts to senior stakeholders including Clients and be comfortable amending your delivery approach and style
• You will manage effective planning:  over the short medium and long term then execute against those plans such as documenting minutes actions and tracking workstreams.  Throughout each project you will:
  • Continually assess and understand where issues are and how they can be addressed and then provide and implement pragmatic solutions to ensure the programme moves forward
  • Identify risks; such as conflicting deadlines or a lack of skills and then provide alternative solutions to mitigate the risk
  • Monitor accruals and manage the project against agreed budgets including scope change
• You will advise recommend and engage with legal technology tools available to provide support to efficiently manage your projects
• You will demonstrate advanced knowledge and skills of working with legal technology and you will be able to define requirements and set-up technology to support efficient delivery
• You will assess the activities required and ensure we are delegating appropriate tasks to Legal Project Analyst team to efficiently manage your projects
• You will take regular feedback and direction from your colleagues and adjust and adapt your style and plans
• You will deliver presentations and facilitate workshops and form part of the client pitch teams
• You will work directly with Clients positively representing Clifford Chance and as required working from Client site locations independently

Qualifications :

Your experience

You will either have a background in project management gained within a professional services or complex matrix environment or you will have been a lawyer qualified lawyer or equivalent type of role with experience of (legal) matter management.

A qualification or industry recognised certification in project management would be desirable but is not essential as we are happy to support team members with these qualifications.

Collaboration influencing resilience and networking are all key skills to make an impact as a Legal Project Manager within the Firm. 

Additional Information :

How we will support you

As a Firm we make a significant investment in training and supporting members of the team through their careers at the Firm. We continuously develop careers structures to aid the skill development and progression of team members.

We offer assistance and funding for externally recognised training qualifications including Lean Six Sigma Prince2 and training in change management and addition to this the nature of the work and interaction with the team will drive continuous on-the-job learning and youll all have access to our global training and development centre the Academy.

There are Transformation teams in every region across the globe who represent all the change delivery disciplines working across project management process improvement outsourcing technology and pricing. You will immediately become be a part of this multidisciplinary global community with structures in place orchestrated to connect team members from across the globe.

The team is enriched by a wide range of knowledge and made up of people with vastly differing career backgrounds and experiences coming from the other professional services firms within the legal industry and from corporates.

Equal opportunities

At Clifford Chance we understand that our true asset is our people. Inclusion is good for our team and their families our firm and society.

We are committed to treating all employees and applicants fairly and equally regardless of their gender gender identity and expression marital or civil partnership status race colour national or ethnic origin social or economic background disability religious belief sexual orientation or age.  This applies to recruitment and selection terms and conditions of employment including pay promotion training transfer and every other aspect of employment.

Our goal is to deliver an equality of opportunity an equality of aspiration and an equality of experience to everyone who works in our firm. Find out more here.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time