Legal Project Manager

Contract: Full-time Independent Contractor

Location: Remote we hire across multiple jurisdictions

Hours: US Eastern Time

Our Firm

Sterlington PLLC is a full-service law firm focusing on complex corporate litigation executive compensation and private wealth matters. As a firm we focus on the economic as well as the legal aspects of our matters. Among other strengths Sterlington is the ultimate law firm for founders senior executives and UHNWIs as well as their related businesses.

We are remote-first and our support teams work as one global Legal Operations function across multiple time zones.

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The Opportunity

We are looking for a Legal Project Manager to sit at the center of how Legal Operations runs coordinating the matter lifecycle end to end onboarding incoming partners and their teams and acting as the single accountable point of contact between Legal Operations and the rest of the business.

You will also own the data and knowledge backbone of the function turning capacity matter and referral data into reporting the firm can act on. We are looking for someone who is naturally organized comfortable operating across functions without formal authority over any of them and who treats who owns this next step as a question that always has an answer.

What Youll Do

• The matter lifecycle end to end. Opening staffing key milestones status reporting and closing. Records that are accurate and current because you keep them that way not because someone audits them. Sign-offs approvals and closing checklists chased to completion rather than reported as outstanding.
• Partner onboarding. Every workstream for an incoming partner and their team: systems access conflicts files billing setup. Tracked to done. A partner joining Sterlington should experience this as one coordinated process not as five functions contacting them separately.
• The cross-functional interface. Routing requests to the right owner translating between functions and keeping initiatives moving without executing the specialist work yourself. You need enough literacy in Finance BD and IT to speak each language credibly. You do not need to do any of their jobs.
• AI-assisted workflow design. Sterlington is building toward a fully AI-augmented this role that means designing and running the AI-assisted workflows that sit around the matter lifecycle and holding the line between what AI produces and what a lawyer reviews. This is not a support expectation bolted onto the role. It is one of the reasons the role exists.
• The functions operating data. Keeping matter and capacity data clean enough to be trusted maintaining the reporting the firm already relies on and flagging the patterns you can see in it: pressure points referral opportunities and where capacity is about to break. Building the firms full analytics and knowledge management capability is not in scope for this role and we will say so plainly rather than write it into a job description and hope.

What Were Looking For

• Experience in project coordination ideally within a law firm professional services or Legal Operations environment
• Working literacy in the matter lifecycle how matters open staff progress and close even if you havent run one yourself
• Strong stakeholder management skills; comfortable being the point of contact between a specialist function and the rest of the business
• Enough functional literacy in Finance Business Development/Marketing and IT to coordinate effectively with each you dont need to do their jobs but you need to speak their language
• Strong written communication; able to translate between functions clearly and without losing nuance
• Comfort with data and dashboards capacity analytics cross-referencing and pattern recognition across matters
• Experience with practice management billing or knowledge management systems or evidence youve learned a comparable system quickly
• Excellent organizational skills; able to track multiple workstreams and sign-off chains without dropping detail
• Non-negotiable: ownership the instinct to chase an open item to completion rather than wait for someone else to close it
• Comfortable working to defined service standards and deadlines in a remote cross-time-zone environment

At Sterlington we believe that world-class talent has no boundaries. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where unique perspectives are valued and every individual has the opportunity to thrive. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply.