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Legal Project Manager
Clifford Chance US Llp · 🇬🇧 London, GB
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About the role
The role We have established a market-leading Legal Project Management team. Those who join our award-winning team become integral to shaping a rapidly evolving area of law essential to the firm's growth strategy. Our LPMs are fully aligned and embedded within our priority Client relationship teams and our Global Product Groups (GPGs). You will be aligned to one/several of our GPGs, impacting how we deliver high end complex legal advice to our biggest clients. You will work on client matters and deals, as a core part of the client team recording time against those matters. You will track workstreams, work with clients, monitor resourcing, manage budgets, and integrate our innovative solutions into our largest and most complex projects. You will also bring new ideas and expertise to an evolving role within a rapidly changing legal market. Who you will work with You will work day-to-day on a range of projects (legal matters), working across multiple client / sectors at any one time. These multi-disciplinary teams will be made up of trainees, lawyers, partners, legal tech advisors, practice assistants, business development professionals, billing, and anyone else in the firm who forms part of a client matter or deal team. The focus of each of the teams you work with is to serve the client, and to deliver excellent legal advice and guidance, and to conclude the matter successfully. You'll need to establish strong relationships with Practice Area Leaders, GPG Performance Directors, Business Development and a range of other internal stakeholders. You'll be able develop sustainable relationships, understanding stakeholder needs, identifying ways to address needs and demonstrate influencing skills to deliver the business objectives. You will collaborate with other Legal Project Manager colleagues around our global network. You will also work closely with other members of the broader business professional community which includes Legal Technology Advisors, Resource Managers and Transformation Specialists. What you will be responsible for You'll support our partners working on some of the most complex matters with a chance to drive, deliver and implement outstanding project management on our largest legal matters. What you will do We are the front runners of innovation in the legal sector and everyone who joins our team becomes an integral part of shaping a rapidly developing area of law that is critical to the Firm's strategy. • You will assist with the preparation of all project initiation documentation – such as prepare scope, resourcing and budget proposals for relevant matters or workstreams and then track progress against those proposals • You will dissect problems and processes and apply logical and analytical approaches to solving them • You will positively influence the individuals you work with (across a range of roles and seniority) to change and adapt their ways of working • You will clearly explain theoretical concepts to senior stakeholders, including clients, and be comfortable amending your delivery approach and style • You will manage effective planning: over the short, medium and long term, then execute against those plans, such as documenting minutes, actions and tracking workstreams. Throughout each project you will: • Continually assess and understand where issues are and how they can be addressed and then provide and implement pragmatic solutions to ensure the programme moves forward • Identify risks; such as conflicting deadlines, or a lack of skills, and then provide alternative solutions to mitigate the risk • Monitor accruals and manage the project against agreed budgets including scope change • You will advise, recommend and engage with legal technology tools available, to provide support to effici