Legal Project Manager

Law Firm (Top 200)

Position: Legal Project Management Manager

Salary: $100,000 - $150,000 with additional OT and Bonus

Location: New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the Client Value and Client Solutions team and attorneys to scope, analyze comparable data and develop compelling client budget proposals.
• Lead implementation of approved budgets into the firm’s budget management application; serving as the subject matter expert on the dashboard and managing implementation of new features and updates.
• Utilize the firm’s financial alerting system to establish budget alerts for matters, consulting with the Legal Project Manager as needed to escalate budget issues.
• Collaborate with attorneys to track legal budgets including, but not limited to tracking actions, staffing, timelines, deliverables, assumptions, and escalating activities when there are material changes in scope or status.
• Learn and apply knowledge of legal project management tools and systems (e.g., Clocktimizer, Iridium, BigHand).
• Work with the Legal Project Manager, attorneys, and clients to define requirements and develop custom budget reporting for external client portals.
• Prepare and manage financial and client status reports, as required.
• Collaborate to automate the firm’s legal project management workflow and task/phase code groupings, including the creation of dashboards to create and update matter budgets, view matter status reports, and search historical data for future matter planning.
• Assist in the development and proliferation of best practices, tools, budget templates, and reference materials across the firm’s client portfolio.
• Support effective communication strategies on projects/matters that foster a collaborative approach between project workstreams including between our lawyers and our clients.
• Support post project review and post-mortem assessments and recommend process improvements as appropriate.

Requirements:

• 2 years of experience in positions requiring strong project and budget management skills.
• Law firm or professional service organization experience is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, management, or other related business function.
• Strong technical skills, including advanced Excel skills (including use of vertical and horizontal lookups, macros, pivot tables and modeling) and a high level of proficiency in Word and PowerPoint required.
• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference.
• Experience in using data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau or Power BI) is strongly desired.
• Proficient with pivot tables and data cubes, and an understanding of relational databases.