Practice Manager - Litigation

Brown Rudnick LLP; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Senior Practice Manager to enhance efficiency in their Dispute Resolution & Restructuring department. This role involves collaborating with various teams to manage budgets, forecast resource needs, and support onboarding processes for new lawyers. The ideal candidate will possess strong data analysis skills, a collaborative mindset, and a passion for innovative practices. Join a firm that values entrepreneurial spirit and collaboration, and make a significant impact in a dynamic legal environment focused on crisis management, litigation, and more.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of practice management experience in a law firm.
• Strong data analysis skills and ability to learn new systems quickly.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with finance and people teams to manage budgets.
• Provide data analysis to support strategic decision making.

Skills

Data Analysis

Problem Solving

Collaboration

Communication

Organizational Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Juris Doctor (JD)

Tools

Budgeting Software

Time Tracking Systems

Job description

We strive to be enterprising, respectful, inclusive, insightful, and tenacious in every aspect of our business, including our interactions with clients, colleagues, and the communities where we have a presence. We rely on these core values to serve clients in key practice areas and industries – the pillars of Brown Rudnick: crisis management, which includes restructuring, investigations, and special situations; global litigation; life sciences; technology; and brand and reputation protection.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Practice Manager to join our fast moving and innovative Dispute Resolution & Restructuring department and to play a key role in building out practice management at the Firm. The ideal candidate will be a data-focused, driven, and enthusiastic individual who is excited about the opportunity to contribute to creating this function.

The Practice Manager will work closely with the Managing Director (Business Unit Leader) of Dispute Resolution & Restructuring to lead and execute on strategies to enhance and improve efficiency across the practice. The role will be responsible for overseeing resource and financial management to ensure the efficient delivery of services to our clients, focusing on using data to programmatically optimize resources and foster collaboration among teams.

Responsibilities

1. Collaborate with the finance and people teams to manage budgets and forecast resource needs.
2. Support billing processes by ensuring proper tracking of time.
3. Use data to programmatically monitor and follow up on time tracking compliance.
4. Collaborate with Marketing & Business development team to support the management of business development expenditure.

Lateral Onboarding and Integration

5. Work with recruiting team to implement onboarding and integration plans for new lawyers.
6. Act as point of contact for Practice Group Leaders and Partners on onboarding and integration.

Resource Management

7. Provide regular data and analysis to Managing Director to support strategic decision making.
8. Work with Managing Director, Practice Group Leaders, and other stakeholders to understand current and future workforce needs.
9. Work with Managing Director and Practice Group Leaders to balance workloads and review hours across their groups, including by making recommendations to the Managing Director based on analysis of utilization metrics.
10. Use data to assess resource capacity and staffing needs and provide recommendations to Managing Director and Practice Group Leaders.
11. Ensure optimal allocation of resources; assign associates to matters, considering skill and experience requirement as well as learning opportunities.

Practice Support

12. Work with functional areas and stakeholders across the Firm to successfully implement and manage change initiatives within the department, including the adoption of new technologies and processes.
13. Plan and facilitate departmental and practice group meetings, including managing agendas, briefing speakers, and managing invitee lists.
14. Draft communications for Managing Directors as needed.
15. Liaise with other functional teams on actions and communications.

Qualifications & Skills

1. Bachelor’s degree required (JD advantageous but not required).
2. Minimum of five years’ experience in practice management at a law firm.
3. Experience working with a litigation practice group advantageous.
4. Top class data analysis skills, and aptitude to quickly learn and utilize new systems.
5. A problem solving and collaborative mindset.
6. An innovative and change-orientated focus, with a constant eye on continual improvement.
7. A top-class communicator with excellent relationship building skills at all levels.
8. Strong organizational skills with ability to meet multiple and fast paced deadlines.

Who We Are

Brown Rudnick is an international law firm with roots in post-war 1940s Boston and New York City. From the beginning, our lawyers and business professionals have demonstrated a remarkable blend of entrepreneurialism and collaboration. Over the last 25 years, the combined firm has thrived with full and easy partner/practice integration, rapidly realized profits from practice group collaboration, the continued development of new lawyers and a business professional staff that is well respected in the industry. Today, Brown Rudnick is a recognized leader in its core pillars: crisis management; global litigation; life sciences; technology; and brand and reputation protection. The Firm continues to grow strategically and show its entrepreneurial, collaborative spirit that led to its creation.

Brown Rudnick LLP is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to recruiting, developing, and advancing talented professionals from all backgrounds across the spectrum of diversity. All employees and applicants are evaluated on the basis of their qualifications, consistent with applicable state and federal laws, without regard to race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, religious beliefs, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, age, national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, or another protected characteristic, all as defined by applicable laws.