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About the Role
The Legal Project Manager (LPM) will provide strategic and operational support across project management, staffing, budgeting, profitability analysis, and client communications. This role enhances client service, streamlines legal service delivery, drives process innovation and efficiency, and maximizes matter profitability. The LPM will contribute to the development and scaling of a global Legal Project Management function, helping to define its structure, demonstrate its value, and embed project management discipline.
Responsibilities
- Apply project management methodologies to plan, lead, and coordinate matter deliverables through written communications, team meetings, and updates.
- Define matter scope and develop budgets, monitoring legal spend, AFAs, and profitability.
- Support matter staffing decisions and facilitate clear team communications regarding roles and responsibilities.
- Ensure accuracy and compliance of time entries with client billing guidelines.
- Coordinate with the matter team to ensure client expectations regarding quality, responsiveness, and timelines are met.
- Develop and maintain project plans, track milestones, and proactively identify and escalate risks.
- Facilitate post-matter reviews, document key learnings, and ensure insights are captured.
- Gather and synthesize client satisfaction information and data.
- Perform process analysis, gather learnings, refine workflows, and advise on the use of technology for matter management.
- Serve as a subject matter expert on project planning, scoping, fee estimating, budget preparation, and status reporting.
- Develop and maintain budgeting materials, project management templates, and playbooks.
- Collaborate with PDLs, Financial Reporting team, and other professional staff to develop and leverage materials.
- Ensure alignment on upcoming stages and needs of each matter, coordinating LPM and knowledge management support.
- Contribute to the adoption and optimization of legal technology platforms.
- Identify and address legal project management training needs across the Firm.
- Support change management efforts related to the adoption of new processes, tools, and ways of working.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required.
- At least 3 years of legal project management, practice management, or legal operations experience at a law firm; experience at a large or global firm strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated experience managing budgets, AFAs, and profitability analysis in a legal services context.
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint).
- Comfort with technology adoption and a continuous learning mindset.
- High-impact written and verbal communication skills.
- Poise and sound judgment; ability to manage competing priorities across multiple matters simultaneously.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with global teams, including partners, associates, and professional staff across offices and departments.
- Willingness and ability to operate across a wide range of tasks such as strategic planning and stakeholder engagement to hands-on troubleshooting and detail management.
- Creative and resourceful thinking; ability to identify issues early and implement practical solutions.
- Exceptional time management, prioritization, and decision-making capabilities.
- Strong desire to help build and grow the LPM function, contributing to its visibility, credibility, and impact across the Firm.
Skills
- Project management methodologies
- Budgeting
- Profitability analysis
- Client communication
- Process analysis
- Workflow refinement
- Legal technology platforms
- Data visualization
- Reporting tools
- Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Change management
- Training development
- Stakeholder engagement
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- JD or Master's degree (preferred)
- Project management certification (preferred)
Salary/Compensations
- $140,000 - $160,000
Benefits
- Health care benefits
About the Company
- Cleary Gottlieb is a pioneer in globalizing the legal profession with 14 offices in major financial centers worldwide, operating as a single, integrated global partnership.
- The firm employs approximately 1,100 lawyers from over 50 countries.
- Since 1946, the firm has provided clients with simple, actionable approaches to complex legal and business challenges, supported by intellectual agility, commercial acumen, and a human touch.
Equal Opportunity
- Cleary provides a comprehensive benefits package.
- We are an equal opportunity employer and prohibit discrimination based on any category protected by law.
- Cleary provides reasonable accommodations to enable otherwise qualified employees to perform the essential functions of their position, provided the accommodation does not pose an undue hardship to the Firm.