Legal Project Manager
Company: ITech Consulting Partners
Location: Boston
Posted on: October 28, 2024
Job Description:
The Legal Project Manager will work with a cross-functional team
to deliver exceptional legal services to clients across a number of
practice areas. The core responsibility of this role is to work
with client teams to develop and implement a best practice approach
to planning, performing, monitoring, and project managing legal
matters within a consistent framework that ensures efficiency and
quality deliverables.Responsibilities
- Work closely with client teams to support the efficient
management of engagements throughout the full matter lifecycle and
identify opportunities to improve our service delivery through
alternative uses of people, processes, and technology.
- Act as a subject matter expert for a range of topics, including
project planning, fee estimating and budget preparation, fee and
scope management, reporting, outside counsel guideline compliance,
and project management technology.
- Be a trusted member of client teams and provide on-demand
consultancy, focused on service quality, delivery, and
efficiency.
- Liaise between the firm and clients to ensure adherence to
outside counsel guidelines, with focus on staffing, reporting, and
working with the Finance team to meet client billing
requirements.
- Support the implementation, use, and further development of
legal project management and knowledge management tools and
resources (e.g., Clocktimizer, viGlobal, Kira, Intapp, HighQ, etc.)
and help to integrate legal project management techniques into the
culture of the firm.
- Contribute to the development of legal project management
methodologies and tools by collaborating with colleagues within the
firm, clients, and vendors.
- Provide project management and process improvement mentorship
and training within the department and across the firm.
- Facilitate a culture of continuous improvement through strong
team interactions, being comfortable accepting and providing
constructive feedback, and a personal commitment to quality,
innovation, and follow through.Minimum Requirements
- 3+ years of substantive practice or project management
experience within a professional services, consulting, corporate
legal department, or other legal services environment.
- Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent years of
relevant experience.
- A record of implementing pragmatic, creative, and effective
solutions to achieve measurable results with a particular emphasis
on client satisfaction, financial performance, and administrative
compliance.
- Experience using formal project management and process
improvement tools and techniques.
- Knowledge of and interest in project management technology,
such as document management systems, project extranets, databases,
collaboration portals, SharePoint, Smartsheet, HighQ, or Microsoft
Project.
- Strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder management
skills with the ability to collaborate with a cross-functional team
of clients, senior partners, junior team members, business
professional staff, other outside counsel, and vendors.
- Sophisticated analytical skills and the ability to define or
identify which metrics drive change.
- Willing to challenge and question assumptions and propose
alternative and bold solutions.
- Flexibility to work extended hours, including weekends and
holidays.Preferred Qualifications
- Paralegal Certificate, MBA, and/or JD.
- Demonstrated experience working directly with high profile
client teams and clients (e.g., legal operations, consultants,
in-house counsel, etc.) for large scale portfolios.
- Experience with project management technology, such as document
management systems, project extranets, databases, collaboration
portals, SharePoint, Smartsheet, HighQ, or Microsoft Project.
- Knowledge of and experience with change management
methodologies, such as Prosci.
- Formal project management or process improvement qualification,
such as PRINCE2 or PMP.
- Understanding of developments in industry-agnostic project
management and the dialog around the future of legal services.
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Keywords: ITech Consulting Partners, Hartford , Legal Project Manager, Executive , Boston, Connecticut
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