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About the Role
Gibson Dunn is seeking a Practice Manager to support the day-to-day operations and strategic initiatives of the Investment Funds practice. This role acts as a chief operating officer for the practice, ensuring efficient and cohesive operations across offices and borders, and translating leadership direction into coordinated action.
Responsibilities
- Execute on strategic priorities set by practice group leadership, translating direction into coordinated action and driving completion.
- Drive priority initiatives from planning through execution, coordinating people and resources.
- Coordinate cross-office and cross-practice projects from planning through execution, keeping work moving and stakeholders aligned.
- Identify and execute initiatives to optimize legal service delivery, staffing, and operational processes.
- Drive integration across the Investment Funds practice, connecting attorneys and teams across offices and borders.
- Partner on onboarding and integration for new partners and lateral attorneys.
- Support talent planning by acting as a liaison with Human Resources, Professional Development, and Recruiting, assessing pipelines and identifying hiring needs.
- Drive healthy utilization, free market balance, and attorney engagement, monitoring capacity and helping lawyers identify staffing and work opportunities.
- Support the attorney review cycle and performance tracking in coordination with Human Resources.
- Support the associate journey through mentorship, review support, and career guidance.
- Coordinate education and training programming for associates and partners in collaboration with Professional Development.
- Serve as the operational backbone of the practice, providing insight into business performance, market trends, and internal efficiencies.
- Provide data support and analytics to inform practice group performance and support decision-making.
- Serve as an information conduit for the practice, keeping the group and its leadership connected and informed.
- Manage tracking of practice-specific data, including deal collection and reporting, targets, and client outreach.
- Serve as a practice management point of contact across US Transactions practices and industry groups, providing coverage and support.
- Partner with and support associates across US Transactions groups, contributing to their engagement, development, and experience.
- Provide flexible, responsive practice management support across a range of US Transactions groups, adapting focus as priorities shift.
- Partner closely with Knowledge Management attorneys, AI attorneys, and Business Development, along with Professional Development, Marketing & Client Development, Communications, Recruiting, Technology, Human Resources, and Office Administration, to advance practice priorities.
- Collaborate with Knowledge Management, Legal Operations, and Technology to improve workflows and implement scalable, innovative solutions.
- Support Business Development with operational insight aligned to practice group priorities.
- Identify opportunities for process improvement, drive execution, and keep the practice’s efforts plugged into the firm.
Requirements
- Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with discretion.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication and people skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders.
- Collaboration and facilitation skills to work with various departments and facilitate their ability to work with each other.
- Ability to work independently and with a team.
- Ability to delegate and manage resources effectively.
- Strong leadership skills to help lead and develop a large and geographically dispersed team.
- Exhibit high degree of initiative and critical-thinking skills.
- Exercise independent judgment and make decisions in managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, detail-oriented work environment.
- Creative thinker open to considering multiple approaches to issues and collaborating with other leaders to develop and execute plans.
- Strong time management skills and ability to work under pressure.
- Ability to coordinate multiple tasks concurrently.
- Excellent organizational skills.
- Ability to work concurrently on a variety of projects with changing priorities.
- Meticulous attention to detail.
- Flexible and able to multi-task, balancing priorities and tight deadlines.
- Ability to build and maintain relationships with department personnel, firm management, other attorneys, and staff.
- Highly motivated, strategic focus: ability to understand and support firm goals, services, culture, and strategy.
- Understands and stays up to date on current legal market trends, news, and innovations.
- Strong knowledge of the legal industry, relevant laws and regulations, and best practices and standards.
- Ability to work independently to solve problems relating to both technical issues and situations involving coordination and collaboration with attorneys, non-attorney staff, and different administrative departments.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and tasks, prioritize effectively, and meet deadlines.
Skills
- Communication
- Leadership
- Emotional intelligence
- Understanding of the life cycle of a matter
- Understanding of how attorneys practice in a law firm setting
Location
- Any US office
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Minimum seven years’ experience directly related to the duties or skills described herein
- At least three years’ experience as a manager
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree required
- JD preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $230,000 - $280,000
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.