We are recruiting for a Senior Legal Project Manager to join our FutureLaw team in Birmingham or Manchester.
Your Role
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.
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.
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
