Legal Project Manager

Legal Project Manager

We are seeking an experienced Legal Project Manager for our Client Value Department. The Legal Project Manager will work with a cross-functional team to deliver exceptional legal services to clients across a number of practice areas. The core responsibility of this role is to work with client teams to develop and implement a best practice approach to planning performing monitoring and project managing legal matters within a consistent framework that ensures efficiency and quality deliverables. If you have the appropriate experience we invite you to consider joining our team.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with client teams to support the efficient management of engagements throughout the full matter lifecycle and identify opportunities to improve our service delivery through alternative uses of people processes and technology.
• Act as a subject matter expert for a range of topics including project planning fee estimating and budget preparation fee and scope management reporting outside counsel guideline compliance and project management technology.
• Be a trusted member of client teams and provide on-demand consultancy focused on service quality delivery and efficiency.
• Liaise between the firm and clients to ensure adherence to outside counsel guidelines with focus on staffing reporting and working with the Finance team to meet client billing requirements.
• Support the implementation use and further development of legal project management and knowledge management tools and resources (e.g. Clocktimizer viGlobal Kira Intapp HighQ etc.) and help to integrate legal project management techniques into the culture of the firm.
• Facilitate a culture of continuous improvement through strong team interactions beingcomfortable accepting and providing constructive feedback and a personal commitment to
  quality innovation and follow through.
• Contribute to the development of legal project management methodologies and tools by collaborating with colleagues within the firm clients and vendors.
• Provide project management and process improvement mentorship and training within the department and across the firm.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 3 years of substantive practice or project management experience within a professional services consulting corporate legal department or other legal services environment.
• Bachelor s degree in related field or equivalent years of relevant experience.
• A record of implementing pragmatic creative and effective solutions to achieve measurable results with a particular emphasis on client satisfaction financial performance and administrative compliance.
• Experience using formal project management and process improvement tools and techniques.
• Knowledge of and interest in project management technology such as document management systems project extranets databases collaboration portals SharePoint Smartsheet HighQ or Microsoft Project.
• Strong communication presentation and stakeholder management skills with the ability to collaborate with a cross-functional team of clients senior partners junior team members business professional staff other outside counsel and vendors.
• Sophisticated analytical skills and the ability to define or identify which metrics drive change.
• Willing to challenge and question assumptions and propose alternative and bold solutions.
• Flexibility to work extended hours including weekends and holidays.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Paralegal Certificate MBA and/or JD.
• Demonstrated experience working directly with high profile client teams and clients (e.g. legal operations consultants in-house counsel etc.) for large scale portfolios.
• Experience with project management technology such as document management systems project extranets databases collaboration portals SharePoint Smartsheet HighQ or Microsoft Project.
• Knowledge of and experience with change management methodologies such as Prosci.
• Formal project management or process improvement qualification such as PRINCE2 or PMP.
• Understanding of developments in industry-agnostic project management and the dialog around the future of legal services.