Requirements
- Collaborate with attorneys and clients to define matter scope, strategy, objectives, and key milestones.
- Develop and monitor budgets, including legal spend tracking, alternative fee arrangements (AFAs), and profitability analysis, in close collaboration with the Pricing Team, Financial Reporting team, and Practice Development Lawyers (PDLs).
- Support matter staffing decisions, balancing team capacity, expertise, and development needs, and facilitate clear communications regarding roles, responsibilities, and workstreams.
- Ensure the accuracy, completeness, and compliance of time entries with client billing guidelines, and support the harnessing of time entry data for matter analytics and reporting.
- Serve as a coordination point to ensure the matter team is meeting client expectations regarding quality, responsiveness, and deliverable timelines.
- Develop and maintain project plans, track milestones, and proactively identify and escalate risks and bottlenecks.
- Facilitate matter close-out processes and post-matter reviews, document key learnings, and ensure insights are captured and disseminated to improve future matter execution.
- Gather and synthesize client satisfaction information and data to inform continuous improvement efforts.
- Supervise, mentor, and develop Legal Project Managers, including responsibility for onboarding, goal-setting, regular performance feedback, and annual performance reviews.
- Monitor and balance workloads across direct reports; assign matters and projects in coordination with the Director of Strategic Pricing and Legal Project Management to ensure appropriate coverage and professional development opportunities.
- Serve as a day-to-day coach and resource for team members, providing guidance on matter management, stakeholder engagement, budgeting, and client communication.
- Foster a collaborative and high-performing team environment; champion knowledge sharing and continuous improvement within the LPM function.
- Participate in recruiting efforts for the LPM team as needed, including reviewing candidates, conducting interviews, and contributing to hiring decisions.
- Perform process analysis, gathering learnings, refining workflows, implementing best practices, and advising on the innovative use of technology and tools for matter management.
- Serve as the subject matter expert on project planning, scoping, fee estimating, budget preparation, fee and scope management, and status reporting.
- Develop and maintain budgeting materials, project management templates, and playbooks for use in managing active and incoming matters and in business development efforts (e.g., pitch materials and RFP responses).
- Collaborate with PDLs, the Financial Reporting team, and other professional staff to develop and leverage these materials.
- Work in close collaboration with PDLs to ensure alignment on the upcoming stages and needs of each matter, coordinating LPM and practice development support as appropriate.
- Contribute to the evaluation, adoption, and optimization of legal technology platforms (e.g., matter management tools, collaboration platforms, and data visualization solutions) to enhance matter delivery and reporting.
- Help define and document LPM function standards, processes, and operating procedures to support consistency and scalability as the function grows globally.
- Identify and address legal project management training needs across the Firm, including the development of intranet resources, delivery of departmental sessions, and one-on-one coaching for partners and associates on project management principles and tools.
- Support change management efforts related to the adoption of new processes, tools, and ways of working across practice groups and offices.
Work Arrangement
Remote (Worldwide) — New York, Washington, London, Paris, Brussels, Frankfurt, Rome, Tokyo, Beijing, Hong Kong, Seoul, Moscow, São Paulo, Prague, Madrid, Milan, Singapore, Sydney, Dubai
