Legal Project Manager

Are you a motivated and skilled project manager with a passion for the legal field? Are you looking for an opportunity to work with a forward-thinking firm that values innovation, collaboration and excellence?

We are looking for a Legal Project Manager to join our Transformation and Projects team. If you thrive in a fast-paced, professional environment and have a flair for managing complex legal projects, we would love to hear from you!

What you'll be doing

As a Legal Project Manager, you will play a crucial role in supporting the delivery of legal project management across the firm. You will work closely with legal teams, clients, and various departments to ensure the effective execution of legal projects.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Providing comprehensive project management support to client-facing projects.
• Assisting in the development and execution of legal projects.
• Promoting the services of the legal project management team.
• Collaborating with clients to understand their strategic needs for legal service delivery.
• Developing and supporting the use of project management tools and methodologies.
• Setting up new projects with appropriate governance and structure.
• Managing project plans, risks, issues, resources, budgets, and KPIs.
• Leading or facilitating project meetings and delivering improvements in legal matter management.
• Developing LPM standards, processes, and guidelines.

What we are looking for

• Proven experience as a project manager or Assistant Manager, with formal project management training preferred.
• Understanding of law firm dynamics and the ability to communicate effectively at all levels.
• Strong commercial awareness and client-facing service delivery skills.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in MS Office; familiarity with MS Project and HighQ is desirable.
• Flexibility to manage competing project demands and work outside normal office hours when needed.
• A "can-do" attitude and the ability to optimise the performance of both technology and people.

We embrace a hybrid working model that offers flexibility and supports a healthy work-life balance. Our hybrid working approach allows you to work from home, subject to business needs, with most people spending 40% to 60% of their time in the office. 

About Burges Salmon

Our six core values – Ambition, Collaboration, Commitment, Fairness, Quality and Respect - are at the heart of everything we do and help to shape our unique culture. As well as high quality work and exciting development opportunities, we offer our people a professional, friendly and sociable working environment with a real sense of community.

A full overview of all the benefits of working at Burges Salmon can be found on the ‘working at Burges Salmon' section of our careers page.

We are pleased to have been named RollOnFriday's ‘Best Law Firm to Work At', for the fourth year in a row and one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2024 (previously named ‘The Times Top 50 Employers for Women'), for the fourth year running. Our commitment to excellence has recently been recognised by the IIP, which awarded us Platinum certification for investment in people. It's important to us that our organisation represents the diverse community in which we operate and we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and identities. As a Disability Confident Leader, we will provide a fully accessible recruitment process and offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job. We're committed to finding the right person for this role and are open to discussing flexible working, full time or part time working patterns.

If you have any questions regarding the role or the interview process, please contact Ayesha Arshad (Resourcing Specialist) – [email protected] or call on 0117 307 6807 for an informal and confidential conversation.

This advert will close as soon as we receive sufficient applications so please apply as soon as you can to be considered.

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