Senior Legal Project Manager

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Legal Project Management - LondonJob Description

We're Norton Rose Fulbright - a global law firm with over 50 offices and 7,000 employees worldwide. We provide the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. At Norton Rose Fulbright, our strategy and our culture are closely entwined. We know that our expansion will mean little unless it is underpinned by truly global collaboration and we understand that pioneering work only takes place when our people have room to move and think beyond boundaries. As well as the relevant skills and experience, we're looking for people who are innovative, commercial and value the work that they do. 

Our London office is currently recruiting for an experienced Senior Legal Project Manager to join our growing LPM capability and support our Corporate practice group.

The Role 

As a senior LPM, you will be both business and client facing and will play a pivotal role in embedding LPM across our offices in EMEA and working with our colleagues around the globe. As well as being engaged on specific matters and providing internal style consultancy advice across the EMEA business, you will also support the development of the wider LPM team.

This role provides a great opportunity to drive change in the delivery of our legal services, work alongside our process and technology experts, and develop new and better ways of working.

The LPM team works closely with partners, fee earners and other Business Professionals to, amongst other things: provide better support for client engagements; assist with scoping and managing matters and client portfolios; drive efficiencies; and further develop the LPM toolkit. 

Key Responsibilities

• Assist lawyers in developing scope, budgets, process maps and work plans for new and existing legal matters
• Develop specific client matter project and portfolio documentation and reports, including reviewing and consolidating financial reporting and project metrics
• Monitor and track legal team activities and provide on-going updates to ensure that legal mandates meet Firm standards and client expectations
• Manage, oversee and provide support to the wider LPM team
• Identify, manage and mitigate risks on legal matters
• Liaise with clients, lawyers, pricing and other business professionals
• Assist on other special projects as needed

Skills and Experience Required

• Expertise working in a similar capacity in a leading law firm
• PRINCE2, APM, Six Sigma, certification or comparable experience is preferable
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Management of juniors and pastoral skills
• Highly organized with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks effectively in a fast paced environment
• Ability to work independently and as a key contributor
• Flexibility to work remotely with a global team
• Comfortable working with and leading teams of partners, associates and other legal personnel
• Embraces and promotes the use of technology and proactively identifies opportunities to improve ways of working
• Educated to a degree level

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

To attract the best people, we strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can bring their whole selves to work, have a sense of belonging, and realize their full career potential. 
Our new enabled work model allows our people to have more flexibility in the way they choose to work from both the office and a remote location, while continuing to deliver the highest standards of service. We offer a range of family friendly and inclusive employment policies and provide access to programmes and services aimed at nurturing our people’s health and overall wellbeing. Find more about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion here.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from individuals who can complement our existing teams. We strive to create an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. If you require any tailored adjustments or accommodations, please let us know here.