Legal Project Manager - Litigation, Arbitration & Employment

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Office Location: London

Department: Finance

Working Hours: 35 hours per week, 9:30am to 5:30pm but additional hours may be required. We are happy to consider agile and flexible working patterns. Our approach to hybrid working allows for up to 40% of time working from home and 60% working in the office.

Role Overview: We are seeking a Legal Project Manager to provide dedicated support to a class action litigation group of matters.

Key Responsibilities:

• Liaise between legal teams, clients, and other stakeholders to ensure clear communication and alignment.
• Develop, implement, and maintain project plans, timelines, and workflows.
• Monitor project progress and adjust plans as necessary to meet deadlines.
• Allocate and manage resources, including personnel and budget.
• Conduct regular meetings with legal team members to review project status and address any issues.
• Prepare detailed project status reports and updates for senior management and clients.
• Prepare detailed financial reports and updates for senior management and clients.
• Identify and mitigate potential risks and issues affecting project milestones.
• Liaise with other business services teams (Pricing / Finance / IT / Knowledge / Marketing and Business Development) to support the partners and clients.
• Coordinate with third parties and service providers as needed.
• Utilise project management software and tools to track and report project metrics.
• Review and analyse data to assess project performance and areas for improvement.
• Support legal team in drafting, reviewing, and finalising project-related documents.
• Assist in developing budgets and financial forecasts for legal projects.
• Ensure proper documentation and archival of all project-related materials.
• Develop and implement best practices and methodologies for legal project management.

Skills & Experience:

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or similar credentials preferred.
• Minimum of 2 years of project management experience, preferably in a legal environment.
• Strong understanding of legal processes, terminology, and regulatory requirements.
• Technical skills required include 3E, PowerBI (or comparable business intelligence software), HighQ, Collaborate, MS Project, Smartsheet, and high proficiency in MS Office Suite (especially Excel).
• Deep knowledge of law firm management metrics, and how day-to-day legal practice interacts with those metrics.
• Experience with budget preparation and financial management.
• Knowledge of risk management and mitigation strategies.
• Experience with data analysis and reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement project plans and strategies.

General Attributes:

• Work efficiently without direct supervision, with the ability to multitask, and be flexible with changing priorities.
• Excellent organisational and multitasking skills.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal abilities.
• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking capabilities.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• Detail-oriented with strong analytical skills.
• Strong documentation and archival management skills.
• Ability to liaise effectively with various stakeholders, including clients and vendors.
• Works well in a team environment and independently.
• Ability to effectively manage own workload.
• Ability to face and adapt to challenges.

Equal Opportunities Employment & Agile Working Statement:

It is the policy of Hogan Lovells to provide equal opportunities for all employees in relation to recruitment, training and promotion. Decisions in these areas will be made only by reference to the requirements of the job and shall not be influenced by any consideration of racial or ethnic origin, religion, sex, gender and gender identity, age, sexual orientation, marital and civil partnership status, pregnancy or disability. Our goal is to embed flexibility across our business by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further.