Legal Project Manager
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Business and financial project management professionals
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£56,500
(£28.97 per hour)
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Description
Role profile
Due to continued success, our innovative and growing Osborne Clarke Solutions (OCS) team has an exciting opportunity for a Legal Project Manager to join them. This role will focus on delivering Legal Project Management (LPM) services to support the efficient, predictable and transparent delivery of legal work for our lawyers and clients. The role can be 4 days a week or full time, is permanent, based out of our Bristol office and working to a hybrid arrangement.
The Team
Osborne Clarke's Solutions team plays a crucial role in helping clients explore exactly how they would like legal and related services to be delivered to maximise the value to their businesses. The team is client led, developing new products and services to deliver existing services better, and to deliver entirely new services to meet growing client needs. The team operates out of the UK and Europe, with teams of ex-lawyers, and technologists across locations.
Our Solutions programme has two key goals. First, to make sure we're responding to client demands for greater value, efficiency and certainty from their lawyers, whilst maintaining the highest quality. Secondly, in helping us bring innovative ideas to the delivery of our, or our clients', current and new, services. A significant part of this innovation involves integrating AI technologies throughout our offering.
We want to ensure our lawyers have the best products and resources needed to provide the best possible service to our clients.
Key Responsibilities
Matter & Portfolio Management:
Due to continued success, our innovative and growing Osborne Clarke Solutions (OCS) team has an exciting opportunity for a Legal Project Manager to join them. This role will focus on delivering Legal Project Management (LPM) services to support the efficient, predictable and transparent delivery of legal work for our lawyers and clients. The role can be 4 days a week or full time, is permanent, based out of our Bristol office and working to a hybrid arrangement.
The Team
Osborne Clarke's Solutions team plays a crucial role in helping clients explore exactly how they would like legal and related services to be delivered to maximise the value to their businesses. The team is client led, developing new products and services to deliver existing services better, and to deliver entirely new services to meet growing client needs. The team operates out of the UK and Europe, with teams of ex-lawyers, and technologists across locations.
Our Solutions programme has two key goals. First, to make sure we're responding to client demands for greater value, efficiency and certainty from their lawyers, whilst maintaining the highest quality. Secondly, in helping us bring innovative ideas to the delivery of our, or our clients', current and new, services. A significant part of this innovation involves integrating AI technologies throughout our offering.
We want to ensure our lawyers have the best products and resources needed to provide the best possible service to our clients.
Key Responsibilities
Matter & Portfolio Management:
- Support the application of LPM methodologies across key work types, matters, mandates and client portfolios (e.g. complex transactions, large disputes, multi-jurisdictional projects, managed legal services).
- Work with matter teams to define scope, deliverables, pricing, assumptions and success criteria.
- Develop budgets, timelines, resourcing plans and work breakdown structures for matters.
Skills, Experience & Qualifications:
- Demonstrable experience in project management or legal project management within a law firm, professional services or similar complex environment.
- Experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects with responsibility for scope, budget, resources and timelines.
- Good understanding of legal service delivery, law firm economics and matter profitability drivers.
- Strong project management, stakeholder engagement and reporting, including planning, risk management skills.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work credibly with partners, senior stakeholders and clients.
- Client-centric mindset focused on delivering value, transparency and predictability.
- Commercial acumen with understanding of profitability and pricing dynamics.
- Collaborative approach, working effectively across practice groups and offices.
- Pragmatic and solution-oriented, balancing best practice with what is realistic for each matter.
- Continuous improvement mindset, always seeking ways to enhance efficiency and client satisfaction.
- Resilience and comfort working in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities.
We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.
Our recruitment process
Please note that although we include closing dates for our roles as a guide, we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision-making.
We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.
About Us
Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 Partners and more than 1,260 talented lawyers in 26 locations*. Our sector-based approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. Advising them both comprehensively and commercially. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, it's fundamental to our success.
At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality.
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