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.

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.

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:

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

Desired

The Candidate

Desired

Equal Opportunities Employment & Agile Working Statement

It is the policy of Hogan Lovells Cadwalader 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.