Legal Resource Manager

Larbey Evans Ltd; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 68,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK law firm is seeking a Legal Resource Manager to enhance fee earner management and support diversity and inclusion. The role requires excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence decisions at a senior level. A law degree or equivalent experience is required. This position offers a salary of up to £80,000 and a hybrid work environment, with 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home.

Benefits

Fantastic employee benefits

Hybrid working

Qualifications

• Qualified lawyer or professional within a law firm.
• Experience in resource management.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and driving transformation.

Responsibilities

• Allocate work fairly among fee earners.
• Improve career development opportunities for employees.
• Develop trust with Partners to understand their needs.
• Attend key team and Partners’ meetings.
• Review utilization stats daily and weekly.
• Monitor team skills and update capacity forecasts.
• Liaise with trainee supervisors on performance.

Skills

Stakeholder management skills

Commercial acumen

Ability to drive change

Influencing senior decision makers

Education

Law degree or relevant experience

Tools

Resource management software

Job description

Legal Resource Manager

We’re seeking a Legal Resource Manager with excellent stakeholder management skills, who can influence senior decision makers at a highly regarded UK law firm to drive a structured approach to managing fee earners across teams and locations, supporting diversity and inclusion, and enhancing people performance and development.

• Salary to £80,000 + fantastic employee benefits
• Hybrid working – 3 days in the office / 2 days WFH
• City Location

Key Responsibilities of the Legal Resource Manager

• Be the business services lead for allocating work throughout the allocated teams and make sure there is a fair and equal access to work for fee earners.
• Improve career development by giving employees access to a wider variety of work which matches their development needs and aspirations.
• Develop excellent working and trusted relationships with Partners at the firm to gain a deep understanding on their practice, pressure points, and resourcing needs.
• Build a Resource Management presence in key team meetings and Partners’ meetings, as necessary.
• Review utilisation and overall hours / stats on a daily-weekly basis; flagging areas of concern to the Teams’ partners by way of providing weekly utilisation and projected capacity reports.
• Understand / map the skills in the team and proactively monitor, remind, and chase fee earners to update their capacity forecast on a weekly basis.
• Liaise with trainee supervisors to monitor trainee performance and allocate appropriate range of work.
• Keep track of holidays and mapping holidays to utilisation to pro-actively recommend work re-allocation solutions ahead of time.

Skills & Requirements of the Legal Resource Manager

• Qualified lawyer or other professional with a law degree or relevant experience within a law firm / Resource management background.
• Strong commercial acumen and business awareness.
• Able to drive change and transformation; comfortable with ambiguity.
• Persuasive and able to influence senior decision makers.
• Experience working with resource management software would be advantageous.