Plona Partners · 1 day ago
Legal Project Manager
NYC Metro Area
Full-time
Onsite
Entry, Mid Level
$100K/yr - $150K/yr
2+ years expPlona Partners is a top 200 law firm seeking a Legal Project Manager to enhance client budget proposals and manage financial reporting. The role involves collaboration with attorneys and teams to implement budgets, automate workflows, and support effective communication strategies.
Staffing & Recruiting
Responsibilities
Collaborate with the Client Value and Client Solutions team and attorneys to scope, analyze comparable data and develop compelling client budget proposals
Lead implementation of approved budgets into the firm’s budget management application; serving as the subject matter expert on the dashboard and managing implementation of new features and updates
Utilize the firm’s financial alerting system to establish budget alerts for matters, consulting with the Legal Project Manager as needed to escalate budget issues
Collaborate with attorneys to track legal budgets including, but not limited to tracking actions, staffing, timelines, deliverables, assumptions, and escalating activities when there are material changes in scope or status
Learn and apply knowledge of legal project management tools and systems (e.g., Clocktimizer, Iridium, BigHand)
Work with the Legal Project Manager, attorneys, and clients to define requirements and develop custom budget reporting for external client portals
Prepare and manage financial and client status reports, as required
Collaborate to automate the firm’s legal project management workflow and task/phase code groupings, including the creation of dashboards to create and update matter budgets, view matter status reports, and search historical data for future matter planning
Assist in the development and proliferation of best practices, tools, budget templates, and reference materials across the firm’s client portfolio
Support effective communication strategies on projects/matters that foster a collaborative approach between project workstreams including between our lawyers and our clients
Support post project review and post-mortem assessments and recommend process improvements as appropriate
Qualification
Required
2+ years of experience in positions requiring strong project and budget management skills
Law firm or professional service organization experience is required
Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, management, or other related business function
Strong technical skills, including advanced Excel skills (including use of vertical and horizontal lookups, macros, pivot tables and modeling) and a high level of proficiency in Word and PowerPoint required
Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference
Proficient with pivot tables and data cubes, and an understanding of relational databases
Preferred
Experience in using data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau or Power BI) is strongly desired
Company
Plona Partners
Plona Partners is a boutique legal recruiting firm privileged to be positioned with one of the most high-quality, diverse, and specialized talent networks in the world of law.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase