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Position Summary:
As a Legal Project Management Specialist, you will join a collaborative
and dedicated team of professionals and work closely with our lawyers in
an important firmwide initiative to optimize matter management and
profitability. This new role presents an exciting opportunity to make a
big impact for the firm by identifying and developing risk assessment
tools, creating processes, mining information for knowledge management,
and developing supporting methodology. The Legal Project Management
Specialist will interact significantly with attorneys and clients in
this crucial role. You will contribute to new business proposals by
advising on past client/matter experience and providing analytical
support. This role will assist in tracking matters from inception to
close, ensuring efficient outcomes and budget adherence.
The LPM Specialist reports directly to the Pricing & LPM Manager and
will support client teams to better manage project scope and delivery,
capture out of scope revenue, minimize write-offs, improve matter
efficiency, and align project deliverables with client expectations.
Primary Responsibilities include:
- Advising attorneys on strategies to maximize profitability through
ongoing matter performance.
- Researching historical matters and preparing analysis to inform and
compare budget proposals and build on a database of budgets to
enhance pricing accuracy.
- Designing templates to assist attorneys with creating budgets, and
monitoring engagements throughout the matter lifecycle, providing
reports to management regularly.
- Managing multiple workstreams and competing deadlines.
- Supporting client teams in defining matter scope, track and manage
changes.
- Documenting and maintaining detailed records of procedures,
assumptions, methodologies and sources of information utilized in
analysis.
- Quantifying and recording risks in projects including mitigation
strategies.
- Continually working to ensure quality and accuracy of work product.
Contributing to team to develop tools, processes, and procedures to
maximize efficiency.
Additional Responsibilities may include:
- Clearly communicating analysis, financial metrics, and budget
reports with lawyers to ensure success of individual attorneys and
the firm overall.
- Modeling matter realization and profitability with scenario analysis
to support pricing decisions by firm management.
- Coordinating with business development partners to complete requests
for proposals (RFPs) and meet deadlines.
DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Bachelors degree, preferably in Business, Systems, Accounting or a
related field, or equivalent job experience.
- 2+ years of project management, within a law firm, law practice, or
professional services legal department. AmLaw 100 experience is
preferable.
- The ideal candidate is a strong collaborator with a million great
ideas to share.
- Strong business acumen and analytical skills and the ability to
learn and apply new skills quickly and effectively are essential.
- Knowledge of corporate finance and accounting principles and
terminology, with general knowledge of the legal services business.
- Understanding of Litigation lifecycle and terminology is a plus.
- Must be well organized with strong attention to detail and good
business judgment, capable of handling sensitive information with
appropriate discretion. o Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite,
specifically Excel and PowerPoint, is required. Advanced Excel
proficiency, including experience with pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, etc.
is preferred. Experience with SharePoint, database management, data
presentat on software, Visual Basic, and SQL is a plus.
- Ability to connect report data and statistics with business outcomes
for analysis and forecasting.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, demonstrating an
ability to explain complex concepts to professionals of different
backgrounds with confidence.
- Ability to work independently and maintain flexibility with respect
to assigned tasks due to changing deadlines and deliverables in a
fast-paced environment.
- Must have a positive attitude and be results-oriented, dependable,
adhere to established time commitments and demonstrate strong
customer service attributes.
Jenner & Block LLP is an equal opportunity employer. Recruitment and
employment decisions are not made on the basis of an individuals race,
color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status,
age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability or medical
condition, genetic information, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity
and/or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related
medical conditions, arrest record, matriculation, personal appearance,
political affiliation, marital, parental, veteran, military, or order of
protection status, or any other protected status or that of their re