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About the Role

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.

Responsibilities

Work closely with partner and lawyer teams to support the efficient management of sophisticated client engagements through scoping, pitching, planning, managing, monitoring, and 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 and embedding of best practices.
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 to support functions such as Pricing/Finance, Reporting/IT, knowledge gathering and sharing, and Pitching/Marketing and Business Development.
Provide training and development on the LPM methodology and tools, and support the implementation and use of the LPM software tool.
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.
Introduce innovative working practices and tools.
Support strategic goals by collaborating with the LPM Practice Lead and Head of LPM to advance the global strategic objectives of the LPM team.
Assist in developing and maintaining practice-specific LPM knowledge, tools, and processes.
Provide day-to-day guidance and support to the LPM team within the practice group, helping to manage workloads and prioritise tasks.
Coach and mentor junior team members to enhance their LPM capabilities and ensure high-quality service delivery.
Contribute to effective communication of LPM initiatives and best practices within the practice group.

Requirements

Good track record of championing and delivery change and delivering solutions that work for all stakeholders.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Self-motivated, able to demonstrate determination and persistence.
Ability to implement pragmatic solutions.
High degrees of influencing skills.
Coaching skills; high level of credibility, professional.
Ability to work with all levels within an organisation, from senior partners to more junior team members.
Build effective relationships / networks internally and externally.
Pro-active, commercial outlook with a solution based approach.
Work collaboratively, providing a quality service.
Proven track record of selling the chargeable elements of LPM to clients and partners, and being a chargeable asset on live matters.
Be a team player who instils confidence in others of themselves, the need for LPM, and of solutions and options offered.
Results driven with a record of delivering creative and effective outcomes.
Be comfortable embracing uncertainty and to work with others to find working solutions.
Highly numerate and competent in Excel (for fee analysis and reporting) with a good degree of financial acumen.
Willing to challenge and question assumptions; proposes alternative and bold solutions.
Worked in a law firm or professional services environment.
Understanding of the legal services markets and the challenges and opportunities that exist.
Experience with Microsoft 365 / Power Platform (PowerBI, Power Automate, SharePoint, Projects, Planner, CoPilot inc agents), SmartSheet, other legal tech / AI tools.

Skills

Legal Project Management (LPM)
Scoping
Pitching
Planning
Managing
Monitoring
Matter completion and review
Client engagement management
Efficiency identification
Innovation identification
Best practice embedding
Service quality
Delivery
Pricing
Resource planning
Scope change management
Service quality improvement
Efficiency improvement
Innovative working practices
Training and development
LPM methodology
LPM tools
LPM software tool implementation and use
Fee structures
Data analysis
Tools utilization
Experience utilization
Quality mark establishment
Client expectation management
Consistent application of LPM principles
Matter planning
Matter execution
Client communication
Efficient delivery
Profitable matter delivery
Transparency
Stakeholder communication
Client communication
Alternative use of people, process and technology
Global strategic objective advancement
Practice-specific LPM knowledge
Workload management
Task prioritization
Coaching
Mentoring
Communication of LPM initiatives
Communication of LPM best practices
Change management
Verbal communication
Written communication
Pragmatic solution implementation
Influencing
Credibility
Professionalism
Relationship building
Network building
Commercial outlook
Solution-based approach
Collaborative work
Selling chargeable elements of LPM
Excel proficiency
Financial acumen
Challenging assumptions
Proposing alternative solutions
Proposing bold solutions
Subject matter expertise

Location

London

Work Type

Hybrid working (up to 40% from home, 60% in office)
Agile working patterns
Flexible working patterns

Experience Level

Senior
Additional hours may be required

About the Company

Hogan Lovells Cadwalader is a global, collaborative team of professionals aiming to be market leaders in legal service delivery.
Their Legal Project Management (LPM) ensures enhanced quality of service that is efficient, innovative, and valuable to clients.

Equal Opportunity

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.
The firm aims to embed flexibility across its business by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis.