We are recruiting for a Senior Legal Project Manager to support our Public Inquiries, Inquests and Public Law Team in London. Due to an urgent business requirement, we are keen to identify suitable candidates who are immediately available or have a short notice period.
This opportunity is offered on an initial 12-month contract. The role is being offered on a full-time basis and will be based out of our London office. This is an excellent opportunity to join a busy, high-profile team supporting significant and complex public inquiry matters.
Your Role
As a Senior Legal Project Manager you will:
- Develop matter plans, scopes, timelines, budgets and pricing assumptions with instructing lawyers and clients.
- Manage matters, projects and portfolios to deliver to scope, time and budget; monitor progress, manage risks/issues and control scope changes.
- Coordinate stakeholders (clients, partners, lawyers, paralegals and business services) and run effective governance routines.
- Prepare proposals and support bids where Legal Project Management is core to successful service delivery.
- Establish and apply consistent LPM methods, templates and tooling across matters.
- Produce regular status reporting, dashboards and post‑matter reviews; capture lessons learned and drive continuous improvement.
- Plan and manage resourcing for high‑volume programs (e.g., paralegal teams), including onboarding, work allocation and quality assurance.
- Champion and help embed legal technology and process improvement; support change management and adoption activities.
- Contribute to LPM capability building (training, coaching and share best practice) across the firm.
Your Skills and Experience
- Project management qualification (APM, PRINCE2, PMP, MSP/MoP) or equivalent experience.
- 3+ years’ experience delivering projects in legal/professional services, with exposure to litigation, corporate, real estate and remediation projects.
- Strong commercial awareness; confident engaging senior stakeholders and influencing outcomes.
- Proficiency with project/reporting tools (e.g., MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint) and matter reporting.
- Experience managing multiple concurrent projects and large teams; able to prioritise and work at pace.
- Practical knowledge of legal process improvement, design thinking/legal design and alternative delivery strategies.
- Hands‑on familiarity with legal technology solutions (including AI‑enabled tools) and embedding change.
- Excellent communication skills; able to translate client needs into clear delivery plans and documentation.
- Degree‑level education; Law degree preferred but not essential.
About TLT
Fast paced, fast growing and forward thinking, TLT is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and we do the same for our people.
With local, national and international reach, we have over 1,800 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India and the US. Over the last few years TLT’s successful growth, delivery of high-quality work and support for colleagues has been consistently recognised by The Times and at the Legal Business, The Lawyer and British Legal Awards.
Our ambition is to create opportunities for what comes next for our clients, recognised as their 1st tier adviser and being valued for our values. We do this in our unique way by creating social value and a dynamic environment where our people are curious, creative and ambitious for their success.
In our open and collaborative culture, we encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice and to contribute to the success of TLT.
Our Benefits
We value our employees highly and we want you to feel valued. You’ll receive a competitive salary with an annual pay review. You will also have access to an extensive range of benefits via our flexible benefits scheme including 25 days holiday (which will increase to 30 days based upon length of service) and private medical insurance.
At TLT we have a progressive fully flexible working approach. We empower our people to work in a place and at a time that meets their needs, those of their clients and of the wider team and firm. Part of this agile approach is a focus on hybrid working and supporting the work/life balance of our people. We’re happy to talk about how flexible working can work for you and this role.
TLT is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment and encourages applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of disability, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected by the laws in the locations in which we operate.
We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing reasonable adjustments, where necessary, to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, require any reasonable adjustments or an application to Access to work please contact the recruitment team on Recruitment.Operations@TLT.com
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