Legal Project Manager

Exciting opportunity to join a Top law firm on a part time basis (20 hours per week), as their Legal Project Manager.

This is a new team for the firm so you will be continuing to build the LPM framework across the firm, working with senior stakeholders to gain further buy in, developing a comprehensive set of standard reports and delivering training to with wider business.

Day to day responsibilities as the Legal Project Manager include:

• To continue to build momentum around a single, best-practice approach to scoping, pricing and project managing legal matters.
• To provide the infrastructure to enable lawyers to benefit from LPM, including:
• Scoping checklists and templates.
• Meaningful time recording code sets to generate useful MI.
• Data to help guide pricing decisions.
• Regular reports showing progress against time estimate at phase level.
• Post-matter reviews to capture learning points and useful knowledge.
• Application of lessons learned to future matters.
• Support lawyers with scoping, budgeting and pricing and setting up project phases on new matters.
• Design and create reports to provide valuable and actionable MI.
• To embed project management responsibility as standard practice within matter teams.
• Demonstrate the value of LPM
• Be an exponent of the value of LPM for clients, lawyers and the business
• Conduct data analysis and set KPIs

This is a very exciting opportunity to join a newly established team and make the role your own. To be successful, you will need to have a strong understanding of matter management from a legal background, great lawyer understanding and communication; able to collaborate, empathise and advise. Someone who is also passionate about entering a Legal Project Manager role will be essential.