Senior Legal Project Manager

Senior Legal Project Manager

£ Excellent Salary + Benefits - London

James Carrera of Digital Data Foundation is sourcing an experienced LPM to provide matter specific guidance and LPM technology / knowledge management tools to deliver a streamlined service to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide LPM guidance on best practices, tools, techniques, roles and responsibilities
• Work with lawyers to draft and submit budget proposals and staffing plans
• Identify issues as they arise, options for resolution and course correction for matters that are beginning to diverge from work plans and/or budget
• Track and analyse costs against budget
• Manage matter expectations with team members and client
• Develop matter work plans; plan and track matter timelines & milestones
• Build relationships and foster a collaborative approach to working with clients across departments
• Continuous improvement to the LPM processes and support the change management of implementing these LPM processes

Experience

Educated to degree level (preferably in Law) with at least 5 years progressive experience in Legal Project Management as well as;

• Experience in dealing with and building key relationships with senior business stakeholders
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Able to manage multiple priorities cross-functionally to challenging deadlines
• Knowledge of extranets, online data rooms, collaboration tools and SharePoint sites
• Strong communication skills, able to interact at all levels key negotiation and influencing
• Financial reports analysis, providing financial analysis and insight of varying levels of complexity
• Formal legal project management qualification desirable

For a confidential discussion contact

James Carrera - Digital Data Foundation