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About the Role
Ashurst Perkins Coie US LLP is seeking a collaborative, detail-oriented Senior Legal Project Manager to join their team. This role advances the firm’s strategic goals by improving efficiency, quality, profitability, competitive position, and client satisfaction associated with legal service delivery. The Senior LPM is accountable for end-to-end delivery across multiple interdependent projects and portfolios, establishing appropriate governance, aligning stakeholders, and resolving complex delivery challenges with substantial autonomy. The Senior LPM serves as a trusted adviser to relationship partners, senior lawyers, clients, and business professionals and as a senior resource and escalation point for LPM colleagues.
Responsibilities
- Lead complex legal project management initiatives and matter portfolios, providing strategic oversight for project planning, governance, budgeting, resource allocation, risk management, and successful delivery of high-profile clients and firm engagements.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to attorneys, clients, and business professionals, driving stakeholder alignment, facilitating cross-functional collaboration, developing innovative solutions, and enhancing the efficiency, quality, and profitability of legal service delivery.
- Advance Legal Project Management excellence through leadership, mentorship, and continuous improvement, including financial analysis, process optimization, technology implementation, training, and the development of scalable methodologies, workflows, and best practices.
Requirements
- Extensive legal project management and legal operations experience, including at least five years leading complex, high-visibility projects and matter portfolios within a law firm or professional services environment, with demonstrated expertise in project governance, stakeholder management, resource planning, risk mitigation, and end-to-end project lifecycle management.
- Advanced business, financial, and technical acumen, including experience with budgeting, forecasting, pricing, profitability analysis, financial reporting, matter management, and legal project management technologies, as well as the ability to evaluate and implement innovative solutions that drive operational efficiency, scalability, and client value.
- Exceptional leadership, communication, and collaboration skills, with a proven ability to influence senior stakeholders, lead cross-functional teams, mentor colleagues, facilitate complex decision-making, manage organizational change initiatives, and deliver successful outcomes in dynamic, fast-paced environments.
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship now or in the future.
Skills
- Data analysis
- Reporting
- Financial modeling
- Microsoft Excel
- SQL
- Smartsheet
- Microsoft Project
- SharePoint
- Microsoft Visio
- Process improvement
- Information management
Location
- Colorado
- Illinois
- New York
- Los Angeles
- Oregon
- San Francisco
- Washington DC
- Washington State
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 5+ years
Education Level
- PMP
- J.D.
- MBA
Salary/Compensations
- Colorado: $151,120.00 - $252,830.00
- Illinois: $166,870.00 - $266,830.00
- New York: $183,270.00 - $293,370.00
- Los Angeles: $181,140.00 - $294,440.00
- Oregon: $160,120.00 - $256,030.00
- San Francisco: $201,820.00 - $322,710.00
- Washington DC: $180,130.00 - $288,040.00
- Washington State: $166,790.00 - $266,770.00
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus
- 401(k) plan
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Accrued paid-off plan starting at 20 days annually
- Personal medical leave
- Parental leave
- Up to 10 paid holidays
- Family care benefits
About the Company
- At Ashurst Perkins Coie US LLP, our people are our greatest asset.
- Join a collaborative, high-performing team where your expertise will help shape the employee experience across our global organization.