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About the Role

Gibson Dunn is a leading global law firm seeking a Senior Legal Project Manager to enhance client service delivery, drive operational efficiency, and elevate legal project management capabilities. This role involves managing a portfolio of the firm's largest and most complex legal matters, providing strategic guidance, and ensuring timely, within-scope delivery.

Responsibilities

• Independently lead a complex portfolio of high-value matters, ensuring alignment across timelines, budgets, resources, and priorities.
• Provide consolidated visibility to firm leadership and drive opportunities to improve performance and profitability.
• Serve as a senior point of contact for key clients on legal matter and portfolio delivery.
• Provide consolidated updates and strategic insights and advisory recommendations across the portfolio.
• Develop and implement detailed matter plans, including timelines, milestones, and deliverables, for the firm’s most complex and high-stakes engagements.
• Collaborate with and influence senior internal and external stakeholders, including relationship partners, client legal operations teams, and third-party vendors.
• Manage resources across matters within the portfolio, balancing workloads, forecasting demand, and advising partners on optimal staffing.
• Identify and assess potential risks and proactively develop mitigation strategies.
• Track, analyze, and report on matter and portfolio-level budgets, including forecasting, trend analysis, and profitability assessment.
• Prepare regular matter and portfolio-level reporting, including dashboards, performance metrics, and executive summaries.
• Lead initiatives to streamline processes, reduce inefficiencies, and implement best practices in matter and portfolio management.
• Work closely with various internal departments such as Finance, Legal Operations, Business Development, Technology, and others.
• Mentor and coach Legal Project Managers and Analysts, support onboarding and training, and contribute to the development of the firm’s LPM methodology, tools, and best practices.

Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively under pressure in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills with experience managing relationships and expectations with various stakeholders.
• Ability to influence senior partners and executive-level client stakeholders.
• Advanced Excel skills with a proven ability to analyze data, create financial models, and produce insightful reports.
• Familiarity with project management methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall) and tools (e.g., MS Project, Asana) is a plus.
• PMP or equivalent certification is preferred.

Skills

• Legal Project Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Financial Modeling
• Data Analysis
• Reporting
• Process Improvement
• Mentoring
• Coaching

Location

• New York
• Washington, D.C.

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior
• 8+ years in matter and/or portfolio management within a law firm
• Proven record of independently managing large, complex matters and portfolios
• Experience mentoring, coaching, or supervising junior project management professionals
• Experience leading initiatives with minimal oversight

Salary/Compensations

• $200,000 - $230,000

Benefits

• Health care
• Retirement benefits
• Paid days off, including sick time, and vacation time
• Parental leave
• Basic life insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Discretionary, performance-based bonuses

About the Company

• Gibson Dunn is a leading global law firm, advising clients on significant transactions and disputes.
• Our exceptional teams craft and deploy creative legal strategies that are meticulously tailored to every matter, however complex or high-stakes.
• The firm’s work is distinguished by a unique combination of precision and vision.

Equal Opportunity

• Gibson Dunn is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all qualified applicants, including individuals with disabilities.
• We strive to ensure an inclusive and accessible hiring experience.
• The Firm will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities to enable participation in the application and recruitment process, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.