Job Title: Legal Project Manager
Job Responsibilities:
1. Serve as a Legal Project Manager on key engagements as defined by the law firm. This involves providing embedded project management support to matter teams, monitoring budget to actual reporting, monitoring scope and resource planning, facilitating task tracking, providing client-ready reporting, and acting as a liaison for the team to the client’s legal operations contact.
2. Define client relationship and legal project management strategy, goals, and related deliverables in conjunction with the matter/engagement leadership.
3. Track and monitor progress against the anticipated scope of work and established budgets. Partner with the Pricing team to update, if needed. Also, track progress of work plans, milestones, legal outcomes, and alternative fee agreements, reporting on the same and attending to follow-up items.
4. Interact with, and serve as a resource to, the leadership of matter and engagement teams.
5. Learn about the law firm’s systems and data; apply understanding of financial concepts, problem-solving skills, and a strong client service orientation to navigate and apply systems and data in ways that benefit the Legal Project Management group and lawyers.
6. Identify issues and opportunities and proactively raise them with the appropriate member of the team; track issues through resolution and document lessons learned.
7. Partner with other staff support departments to resolve issues and contribute to process improvement, development of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and streamlined service delivery.
8. Partner with other members of the Legal Operations team to develop and provide educational content to the firm’s lawyers.
9. Assist with inter and intra-departmental projects as needed and perform other work-related duties as assigned. Liaise frequently with the Accounting and Client Growth teams.
10. Conduct after-action reviews and contribute to the discussion of lessons learned and identify templates for future use.
11. Develop, maintain, and/or update various information tracking systems, including Microsoft Word, Excel, SharePoint, and file-sharing platforms.
Education and Experience Information:
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Prior experience in a paralegal or practicing attorney role is preferred.
- Significant ,000. Salary will be commensurate with experience in this role.
- Washington DC Applicant Salary Range: $155,000-$175,000. Salary will be commensurate with experience in this role.
Working Conditions:
- Normal office environment with little exposure to excessive noise, dust, temperature, and the like.
The job description is intended to describe the general requirements of this position and is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of job duties or responsibilities required. Subject to firm needs, duties and responsibilities of this position may change at any time, on a temporary or permanent basis, and with or without notice.
Equal Employment Opportunity and Diversity Statement:
The law firm is committed to equal employment opportunity in both principle and as a matter of policy. The firm will recruit, hire, train, promote, compensate, and provide benefits to all applicants and employees without regard to ancestry, sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, gender, age, religion, religious creed, mental and/or physical disability, medical condition, military and/or veteran’s status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, and local laws. This policy applies to all recruiting, hiring, promotions, upgrades, layoffs, compensation, benefits, terminations, and all other privileges, terms, and conditions of employment. The firm complies fully with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws.
