Legal Project Manager

Our client, the leading firm for complex U.S. M&A, litigation, governance, and regulatory work, is seeking a highly organized and detail-oriented Legal Project Manager to support their legal teams through all stages of project management, from initial scoping to project closure. The role involves managing deadlines, resource allocation, and project timelines while maintaining clear communication across internal teams and external stakeholders. Key responsibilities include creating and updating project status reports, tracking budgets, identifying opportunities for process improvement, and ensuring documentation is centrally maintained. Ideal candidate will have experience with U.S. litigation, experience in legal project management, legal administration or related field, and strong communication and financial analysis skills. Proficiency in project management tools and certification in project management methodologies, such as (IILPM, LPMI, PRINCE2 or Lean Six Sigma) is highly desirable.

Key Responsibilities And Deliverables

• Provide LPM support on US matters (and where necessary, matters in other parts of the firm), working with the matter partner (or managing counsel/senior associate) through the lifecycle of the matter from pitching and scoping up to closing stage (dependent on the matter requirements).
• Act as a dedicated point of contact in a project to streamline the flow of information across teams and between teams and clients.
• Manage multiple interconnected deadlines and map/update dependencies across workstreams, and individual tasks including building and maintaining project timelines, milestone trackers, and Gantt charts.
• Manage and track capacity across team members to ensure the right resource is allocated to drive efficiency.
• Prepare and update project status reports for legal teams and (client) stakeholders.
• Coordinate between senior and junior members of the team or if needed with third-party providers, experts, witnesses, external counsel and the client to ensure a seamless and transparent flow of communication.
• Ensure or arrange for project documentation to be organized and maintained in a centralized project environment in coordination with our Hub and tech teams.
• Work closely with the Billing/Pricing and EA teams to ensure budgets are tracked, bills are issued and paid on time and profitability is prioritized.
• Work closely with the Billing/Pricing team to analyze matter financial data to identify and report trends, patterns, pain points and opportunities for efficiency improvement to the matter partner (or managing counsel/senior associate), and to set up an early warning system for potential causes of budget overruns.
• Arrange lesson-learned sessions, conduct regular project health checks / post-matter reviews, and document feedback for future mandates.
• Support implementation of LPM and legal tech solutions in the US, and where appropriate to support, on international matters.
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities, and provide feedback to all teams within the CDG, where necessary.
• Provide the most up-to-date tech-enabled LPM delivery and embed project management tools and tracking systems in the matter delivery.
  
  

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor or Bachelor’s degree in legal studies, project management or related field.
• Experience with US litigation procedures.
• Experience in legal project management, legal administration or related field, preferably in a law firm or legal department
• Excellent oral and written English skills.
• Excellent communication, negotiation and presentation skills in a highly professional, fast-paced and high-pressure environment.
• Proficiency in both Microsoft Office and Google Workspace is required.
• Strong attention to detail and problem-solving skills.
• Strong financial, data and organizational skills.
  
  

Preferred Requirements

• Proficiency in using project management tools
• Certification in project management (IILPM, LPMI, PRINCE2 or Lean Six Sigma qualification or equivalent) would be desirable
  
  

Expected salary for this role is $150,000 - $175,000, commensurate with experience, training, skills, qualifications, and other market factors.