Legal Project Manager

Our customer, a leading multinational financial technology company, is seeking a highly skilled Legal Project Manager to join its team. The ideal candidate will provide world-class matter planning, firm selection support, monitoring, and reporting to optimize each project from start to finish cost-effectively. The ideal candidate is a passionate legal project management professional who is organized, detail-oriented, data-driven, and proactive. They are self-starters who enjoy closely managing and optimizing projects, improving processes, and working collaboratively on complex problems.

Duration: 6+ Months

Location: Remote, US (Bay Area Candidates are preferred)

Rate: $50-70 hourly on W2

Specifically, you will:

• Manage assigned matters to maximize efficiency, focusing on planning, monitoring, and reporting.
• Identify opportunities for cost savings and cost control.
• Help build and enhance the company’s legal project management efforts, partnering with internal stakeholders to define and implement LPM best practices.
• Serve as a trusted matter operations advisor to each matter leader.
• Coordinate RFPs for priority matters, including working with legal team members to design, build, launch, review, and award RFPs.
• Drive collection of matter data and deliver recurring updates to legal leaders.
• Assist eBilling team with outside counsel invoice review for matter compliance and work performed.
• Build and maintain legal project management guidelines, training, and playbooks to support the Legal Department.
• Proactively seek ways to improve current processes to maximize productivity, workflow, and efficiency in all aspects of the LPM function.
• Provide project support, reporting, and analysis as requested in relation to outside counsel management and legal operations.

Qualifications-

• 5+ years of work experience in legal project management; experience in a law firm or large in-house legal team preferred.
• High level of professionalism, exceptional attention to detail, and excellent interpersonal skills; comfortable dealing with all levels in the organization and communicating regularly with senior leaders on difficult topics.
• Bias for action and proactive, on-time delivery; takes ownership of an issue once aware of it, going the extra mile to resolve problems that may fall outside your expertise.
• Always seeking ways to improve/enhance processes, find efficiencies, and think outside the box.
• Successfully handle assignments with minimal supervision.
• Technology-savvy; proficient in all Microsoft Office applications with strong Excel and analytical skills required; Power BI and reporting experience preferred.
• PMP or similar Project Management experience preferred.

To apply:

If you are qualified, interested, and available, please send 1) your WORD version resume and 2) an email stating why you are a good fit for this position to [email protected]

ElevateFlex provides an unparalleled platform for you to work with innovative companies and law firms worldwide on various exciting and challenging roles. We pride ourselves on respecting your individuality and choice of career, allowing you to bring your very best to each role, to continue to develop your experience, expertise, and professional network, and to be supported with a package of benefits tailored to your needs.

As a member of our talent community, you will benefit from Elevate's curated training suite to enhance and develop your skills. You will have access to hands-on support, networking opportunities, and accessing the most up-to-date resources. By joining our global community of Talent, you will get the opportunity to work with our best top law firms and law department customers.

Our customer, a leading multinational financial technology company, is seeking a highly skilled Legal Project Manager to join its team. The ideal candidate will provide world-class matter planning, firm selection support, monitoring, and reporting to optimize each project from start to finish cost-effectively. The ideal candidate is a passionate legal project management professional who is organized, detail-oriented, data-driven, and proactive. They are self-starters who enjoy closely managing and optimizing projects, improving processes, and working collaboratively on complex problems.

Duration: 6+ Months

Location: Remote, US (Bay Area Candidates are preferred)

Rate: $50-70 hourly on W2

Specifically, you will:

• Manage assigned matters to maximize efficiency, focusing on planning, monitoring, and reporting.
• Identify opportunities for cost savings and cost control.
• Help build and enhance the company’s legal project management efforts, partnering with internal stakeholders to define and implement LPM best practices.
• Serve as a trusted matter operations advisor to each matter leader.
• Coordinate RFPs for priority matters, including working with legal team members to design, build, launch, review, and award RFPs.
• Drive collection of matter data and deliver recurring updates to legal leaders.
• Assist eBilling team with outside counsel invoice review for matter compliance and work performed.
• Build and maintain legal project management guidelines, training, and playbooks to support the Legal Department.
• Proactively seek ways to improve current processes to maximize productivity, workflow, and efficiency in all aspects of the LPM function.
• Provide project support, reporting, and analysis as requested in relation to outside counsel management and legal operations.

Qualifications-

• 5+ years of work experience in legal project management; experience in a law firm or large in-house legal team preferred.
• High level of professionalism, exceptional attention to detail, and excellent interpersonal skills; comfortable dealing with all levels in the organization and communicating regularly with senior leaders on difficult topics.
• Bias for action and proactive, on-time delivery; takes ownership of an issue once aware of it, going the extra mile to resolve problems that may fall outside your expertise.
• Always seeking ways to improve/enhance processes, find efficiencies, and think outside the box.
• Successfully handle assignments with minimal supervision.
• Technology-savvy; proficient in all Microsoft Office applications with strong Excel and analytical skills required; Power BI and reporting experience preferred.
• PMP or similar Project Management experience preferred.

To apply:

If you are qualified, interested, and available, please send 1) your WORD version resume and 2) an email stating why you are a good fit for this position to [email protected]

ElevateFlex provides an unparalleled platform for you to work with innovative companies and law firms worldwide on various exciting and challenging roles. We pride ourselves on respecting your individuality and choice of career, allowing you to bring your very best to each role, to continue to develop your experience, expertise, and professional network, and to be supported with a package of benefits tailored to your needs.

As a member of our talent community, you will benefit from Elevate's curated training suite to enhance and develop your skills. You will have access to hands-on support, networking opportunities, and accessing the most up-to-date resources. By joining our global community of Talent, you will get the opportunity to work with our best top law firms and law department customers.