Senior Legal Project Manager – Disputes

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Job Title Senior Legal Project Manager – Disputes

Office Location London

Department Finance – Legal Project Management

Support Hogan Lovells Cadwalader and its partners to be the market leaders in legal service delivery. Legal Project Management (LPM) ensures an enhanced quality of service, which is efficient, innovative and our clients consider valuable.

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, please contact a member of the recruitment team to discuss further.

**Role Overview** The Senior Legal Project Manager – Disputes will work closely with the Legal Project Manager Lead – Disputes, International and other key stakeholders to support the effective implementation of LPM initiatives within the practice group. This role provides an opportunity to contribute to the practice LPM strategy while also carrying out the below:

• Work closely with partner and lawyer teams to support the efficient management of sophisticated client engagements through:

• Scoping and pitching.
• Planning.
• Managing and monitoring.

• Matter completion and review.

• Provide ‘on-demand’ support and consultancy for partners and lawyers on ‘live matters’ at set up, delivery and / or review.
• Identify opportunities for efficiency and innovation – assisting with the development of such solutions, where appropriate, and, once developed, embed best practice.
• Champion and support the build out of LPM capability across Hogan Lovells Cadwalader.
• Be a trusted member of transaction / case teams focused on service quality, delivery and efficiency.
• Liaise with other operational specialists at Hogan Lovells Cadwalader to support the following functions, Pricing / Finance, Reporting / IT, knowledge gathering and sharing, and Pitching / Marketing and Business Development in the LPM space.

Provide training and development on the LPM methodology and tools; and support the implementation, use and further development of the LPM software tool, as well as provide user training for fee earners on the software – as appropriate.

**Key Responsibilities** Specific duties or responsibilities may be reviewed from time to time to reflect changes in personnel and management structure, staff location or services. All members of the firm participate in our Responsible Business program.

The core responsibility of this role is operational, to work with partners to actively manage matters through: scoping; pricing; resource planning; delivery and monitoring; identifying, revising and pricing scope changes; and reviewing and identifying opportunities for service quality or efficiency improvements – and introducing innovative working practices and tools.

The outcomes we are looking for from Legal Project Management are:

• Priced correctly - thoughtfully tailored fee structures, meeting each client’s needs and built using data, tools and experience.
• Managed – creating a standard / quality mark for LPM and establishing this as a recognised ‘value’ of Hogan Lovells Cadwalader’s service delivery.
• High quality – to enshrine ‘service quality’ as a core deliverable – meeting the expectations of our clients.
• Consistent – LPM principles to be applied consistently across all matter planning, execution and communications with clients.
• Efficient – ensuring that efficient delivery of matters is a core contributor to building efficient practices and ensuring realisation.
• Profitable – ensure profitability is a core consideration and deliverable of all matters regardless of fee arrangements.
• Transparent – ‘No Surprises’ – status, changes and impact of changes actively communicated to all stakeholders and clients.
• Innovative – identifying opportunities to provide enhance efficiency and quality in our service delivery through alternative use of people, process and technology.

In addition, the Senior Legal Project Manager – Disputes will also:

• Support strategic goals – collaborate with the LPM Practice Lead and Head of LPM to advance the global strategic objectives of the LPM team, including the rollout of LPM tools, training programs, and processes.
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