Legal Project Manager

Job description

The role: We have an exciting opportunity for a Legal Project Manager to join our Legal Project Management team. The role will include supporting our fee earners in the delivery of legal matters using project management best practice. It will also include supporting the Head of Legal Project Management in continually building the reputation of legal project management and contribution to firm’s performance. We’re looking for someone to own how we deliver complex client matters, within the corporate and commercial practice group. As a fee-earning legal project manager, you’ll will work across our three sub-groups – Corporate, Energy Natural Resources & Infrastructure, and Digital Business. What will you do: Apply Project Management best practice to the most complex matters. Set matters up for success from initial scoping, planning, delivery, mobilisation to lessons learnt. Assure our clients and lead matter partner that we are delivering to quality, on time and on budget. Co-ordinate project management activity across matters. Control and monitor matters. Communicate with clients and key stakeholders in real time and accurately. Manage risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies. I...