Legal Project Manager

Tlt Llp; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading law firm is seeking a Legal Project Manager to join their FutureLaw team in Birmingham. The successful candidate will manage legal projects, engaging with lawyers and clients to ensure timely delivery within budget. Required skills include project management, analytical thinking, and excellent communication. You will also advocate for legal project management and help integrate new technologies into the firm. This role offers a competitive salary and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Annual pay review

Qualifications

• Strong experience in project management and legal operations.
• Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently.
• End-to-end legal project management experience.

Responsibilities

• Work with lawyers and clients on matter plans and budgets.
• Manage projects to ensure they are delivered on time and on budget.
• Engage with stakeholders throughout the business.

Skills

Project management

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Stakeholder engagement

Problem-solving

Job description

We are currently recruiting for a Legal Project Manager to join our FutureLaw team in Bristol or Birmingham. As a Legal Project Manager your day to day remit includes:

Responsibilities and Qualifications

• Working directly with lawyers and clients on the development of matter plans, pricing, budgets, timelines and documentation of clearly‑defined scopes and assumptions on client matters, transactions, cases, outsourcing and projects.
• Managing matters, projects and outsourcing projects to help deliver the 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.
• Assisting partners and other colleagues in bids for where legal project management (LPM) and our FutureLaw products are core to successful legal service delivery.
• Applying a consistent approach to LPM with whoever is managing legal matters.
• Work with the Head of LPM and the growing LPM team to help upskill people throughout the firm so that TLT has depth of LPM resource.
• Being engaged on client work to include interacting with clients to manage projects and to include working directly with clients to develop and deliver improved services, processes and projects both alongside the client service team and directly with our clients.
• Being an advocate for TLT's LPM inside and outside the firm. Experience in project managing transactions.
• A creative approach to problem solving with an ability to manage critical issues quickly and effectively.
• 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.
• 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 fee‑earning 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 particular focus on change management.
• Clear understanding of the latest developments in LegalTech to include (but not limited to) eDiscovery, Contract Review and Contract Management and automation.
• Experience of working in the legal sector, or professional services environment within a programme team would be ideal but is not a necessity. 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.

We work with high profile clients in innovative sectors. 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. TLT was named Law Firm of the Year at the Legal Business Awards 2023. This marks the third year in a row the firm has taken away this accolade in industry awards - having previously been named Law Firm of the Year at The Lawyer Awards in 2021 and the British Legal Awards in 2022. Our purpose is to protect, prepare and progress our clients for what comes next and it's essential that we do the same for our people, our planet and our communities too. In our open and collaborative culture, we encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice and to contribute.

We value our employees highly and we want you to feel valued. You'll receive a competitive salary with an annual pay review.