Salary: upto £50,000 per annum
Location: City of London (3 days per week)
Our client, a leading international Law firm is looking for a Junior Legal Project Manager to support their Legal Project Delivery team to support colleagues and clients across to ensure they are delivering legal matters in the most efficient way possible.
What you'll do *
- Support legal project managers to facilitate efficient delivery of legal services to clients.
- Deliver high-level administration and coordination support to the LPD and legal team as required. *
- Act as an advocate for implementing legal project delivery principles *
- Produce data driven reports to inform clients and the team as appropriate *
- Track budget vs actuals on live client matters and flag budget variances with support from the finance team. *
- Research information on requests for proposals, pitches, and other ad hoc queries. *
- Actively participate in team meetings to encourage sharing of ideas and promote a collaborative working environment. Collaborate and build strong working relationships with support teams across the firm to pro-actively resolve issues and prevent risks becoming issues. *
- Own and support the maintenance of project documents
The ideal candidate:
- A 'can do', flexible approach to workload and changing priorities.
- Team player
- Proficiency in applying project management methodology to projects, with the ability to adapt strategies as necessary to meet project requirements.
- Confidence to communicate with fee earners and support teams at all levels (both written and verbal).
- Excellent coordination skills and the ability to juggle multiple competing tasks
- A strong understanding of legal project management, with an ability to articulate this to stakeholders.
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills.
- A basic knowledge of legal technology.
If you have the above experience please submit your CV
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