We are recruiting for a Senior Legal Project Manager to join our FutureLaw team.
Please note, we are open to other locations as we have offices dotted around the UK.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Law degree or equivalent qualification
• Project Management qualification (our preference is APM)
• Min 5 years working in a Project Manager role
• Knowledge of and experience using leading project management tools including MS Project
• Experience in managing legal projects independently using established project management methodologies.
• Strong analytical and project management skills including a thorough understanding of how to interpret the client’s business needs and translate them into business/operational requirements.
• Experience supervising / line managing junior colleagues.
• An understanding of legal matter reporting.
• Proficient in MS Excel and PowerPoint.
• A creative approach to problem solving with an ability to manage critical issues quickly and effectively.
• A proven ability to manage multiple projects concurrently.
• Excellent communication skills and an ability to engage with stakeholders throughout the business at all levels and across legal teams and business services.
• End to end experience of a variety of different legal projects including litigation, corporate transactions, real estate transactions, contract management and remediation as well as involvement in software and service procurement and implementation, software development, business process review and reorganisation and transformation projects.
• The ability to deliver and embed Legal and other Tech into a firm with particularly focus on change management.
• Experience of working in the legal sector, or professional services environment within a project management team.
• A keen interest and deep understanding of the legal industry and latest developments in legal services delivery.

As a Senior Legal Project Manager you will:

• Lead development of matter plans, budgets, timelines and documentation of clearly-defined scopes and assumptions on client matters, transactions, cases, outsourcing and projects.
• Manage matters, projects and outsourcing projects to help deliver work on time, on budget and within scope, managing scope and cost creep and engaging with key stakeholders (to include clients, partners and other colleagues) to deliver each project as required.
• Adapt existing project management tools, resources and technologies to specific legal practice areas and/or workstreams.
• Develop and deliver project management training for lawyers and clients.
• Support lawyers in the use of our LPM tools and technologies.
• Support proposals and bids for opportunities where legal project management (LPM) and our FutureLaw products are core to successful legal service delivery.
• Identify and support process and policy improvements across the legal project management function and more broadly across legal service delivery.
• Help develop a culture supportive and conducive to legal project management.
• Work with the Head of LPM to further develop the skills and expertise of the legal project management team, potentially including line management of junior colleagues.
• Be an advocate for TLT’s LPM capability inside and outside the firm.
• This is a hybrid working role requiring a minimum of 3 days per week in office and occasional travel to other TLT or client offices.