Linklaters

About Linklaters

Linklaters is a global law firm, with 31 offices in 21 countries worldwide.

Linklaters is a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional.

We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial, and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction.

Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair, and open atmosphere.

We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common goal.

The Role

The purpose of the Legal Project Manager role is to work with lawyers across multiple practice groups to understand and define their requirements and provide high quality project management support and expertise in line with these.

The individual will need to work closely with ort Partners, our lawyers and our clients to plan matters, ensure they are appropriately resourced monitor delivery and keep the team and client informed.

The role includes:

• Conducting matter ‘take on’ conversations to understand the matter requirements and advising how LPM support can best be leveraged
• Providing LPM support on matters in line with the legal project management service offering
• Supporting activities to raise awareness of the LPM capability across the firm (e.g. delivering training, supporting marketing efforts)
• Advising on appropriate technology and resourcing solutions from across Alternative Legal Services to support effective matter delivery, signposting to and liaising with relevant specialist teams as appropriate
• Supporting activities to develop and maintain best practice project management guidance

About You

What we are looking for:

• Highly motivated individual with a proactive, pragmatic and resilient approach
• Ability to build credibility quickly amongst team members and key stakeholders, and establish themselves as a trusted advisor
• Excellent at building, maintaining, and leveraging relationships to support both team and firm objectives
• Excellent communicator with ability to engage effectively with stakeholders of all seniorities to facilitate business outcomes

Experience:

• Minimum 3 years of experience in a professional services environment, ideally within a law firm
• Proven project delivery experience, and experience of change management, ideally within the legal industry
• Competent in MS Office applications, particularly Excel, and experience using technology to support project delivery
• Qualifications in project management and change management are desirable but not essential

The Team

At Linklaters, we are committed to delivering tailored and cost-effective solutions for the legal work we provide. This includes leveraging an integrated set of efficiency-related services provided by our Alternative Legal Services teams (Legal Project Management, Paralegals & Support Lawyers, LegalTech Application and Re:link).

Our legal project managers work on some of the Firm’s biggest mandates to provide project management support for both our lawyers and our clients. From understanding the client's requirements at the outset, to coordinating a debrief at the close, the legal project manager works closely with the matter team to support the smooth and synchronised delivery of the matter's non-legal tasks.

Legal project managers work with autonomy on their matters but are supported by a friendly and collaborative team who are always willing to suggest new approaches or share ideas.

Our Benefits

Joining Team Linklaters will see you qualify for a range of benefits designed to reward the vital contribution you'll be making to our success. These include:

Health & Wellbeing:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Free in-house fitness centre and subsidised health club memberships
• Free onsite GP service and periodic health assessments

Finance:

• Pension and flexible savings options
• Income protection and life assurance
• Mortgage advice and will-writing services

Family & Lifestyle:

• Electric car and cycle to work schemes
• Emergency family care
• Additional holiday/birthday leave
• Maternity/paternity/shared parental leave
• Travel insurance and season ticket loan
• Option to join sports and social clubs, as well as our employee networks groups (such as our Gender Equality Network, With Pride, or Social Mobility Networks)

If you think this role would suit you, please click apply below. We look forward to hearing from you!

Technical Skills

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive. It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.

Application Policy

Applications and CVs (direct or via agency) are only accepted online via the portal. Queries related to our roles must be directed to the relevant recruitment team and not the partners, practices or stakeholders (lateralrecruitment@linklaters.com for legal roles or ukbtrecruitment@linklaters.com for business team roles).