Legal Project Manager - Corporate & Finance

Our global, dynamic Legal Project Management team is looking for the right candidate to join our team to support the Corporate & Finance practice group.

Our LPMs are practice group aligned, and contribute to our LPM best practices, tools and techniques, as well as provide user training on our legal project management framework and software. The successful candidate will work closely with partners, senior business stakeholders, and clients.

The core responsibility of this role is to proactively manage matters through scoping, budgeting, resource planning, monitoring, and analyzing.

The key responsibilities are

• Build deep relationships with partners, lawyers and other business teams.
• Efficient management of matters, including initial scoping, budgeting, and workstream planning, as well as on-going matter management, tracking and data analysis.
• Develop a strong understanding of clients’ ways of working and build client relationships, ensuring LPM acts as a trusted advisor
• Identify opportunities for efficiency and innovation, both at the matter level and the LPM program level.
• Liaise with other business teams (pricing/finance/IT/knowledge/marketing/business development/etc.) and vendors to support partners and their clients/matters.
• Provide training and development on LPM methodology, tools, and techniques.
• Drive and support the implementation, use and development of LPM best practices, tools, software.
• Work within the practice group aligned LPM teams reporting directly to the Senior Legal Project Manager.
• Specific duties or responsibilities may be reviewed from time to time to reflect changes in personnel and management structure, staff location or services.
• All members of the firm participate in our Responsible Business program
• Champion Legal Project Management (LPM) capability across the firm.

QUALIFICATIONS

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Ability to build relationships and networks internally and externally, at all levels within the firm.
• High degree of influencing skills and ability to instill confidence in others of proposed LPM solutions
• Strong attention to detail, with highly developed organizational skills.
• Be a self-starting go-getter, with an inquisitive mind, and a love for problem-solving.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills (writing and editing).
• Work efficiently without direct supervision, with the ability to multitask, and be flexible with changing priorities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

EDUCATION, CERTIFICATIONS, AND/OR EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree required or equivalent combination of education and work experience; a JD or MBA is preferred.
• Prior legal project management experience preferred, particularly in a fee-earning capacity, with knowledge of project management methodologies.
• Large law firm or professional services consultative experience is preferable.
• Experience with scoping, budgeting, project planning, workflow management, and post-matter reviews.
• Technical skills desired include proficiency in Excel, Power BI (or comparable business intelligence software), HighQ (Collaborate), Smartsheet, SharePoint, Foundation Scoping, and Generative AI tools e.g. Copilot.
• Deep knowledge of law firm financial and management metrics and how day-to-day legal practice interacts with those metrics.

HOURS

Core hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., with the flexibility to work overtime as needed.

In Washington, DC, the expected base salary range for this role is $140,000 to $180,000 per year.

This range reflects a good-faith estimate of pay at the time of posting; the actual compensation offered may vary depending on factors such as the candidate’s qualifications. This position is eligible for additional forms of compensation, which may include annual discretionary bonuses.

Employees in this role are also eligible for benefits offered by the firm, subject to applicable plan terms and conditions, which currently include medical, dental, and vision insurance; a 401(k) retirement plan; and paid time off. Please review this link for more information regarding employee benefits in the United States.

This job description sets forth the authorities and responsibilities of this position and may be changed from time to time as shall be determined.