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ABOUT JENNER & BLOCK
Jenner & Block (www.jenner.com) is a law firm with global reach, with more than 500 lawyers and offices in Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Washington, DC. The firm is known for its prominent and successful litigation practice and experience handling sophisticated and high-profile corporate transactions. Firm clients include Fortune 100 companies, large privately held corporations, financial services institutions, emerging companies and venture capital and private equity investors. The American Lawyer magazine has ranked Jenner & Block as the #1 pro bono firm in the United States 10 times, most recently in 2019. The firm has been ranked in the top 10 in this category every year since 1990.
Position Summary:
As a Legal Project Management Specialist, you will join a collaborative and dedicated team of professionals and work closely with our lawyers in an important firmwide initiative to optimize matter management and profitability. This new role presents an exciting opportunity to make a big impact for the firm by identifying and developing risk assessment tools, creating processes, mining information for knowledge management, and developing supporting methodology. The Legal Project Management Specialist will interact significantly with attorneys and clients in this crucial role. You will contribute to new business proposals by advising on past client/matter experience and providing analytical support. This role will assist in tracking matters from inception to close, ensuring efficient outcomes and budget adherence.
The LPM Specialist reports directly to the Pricing & LPM Manager and will support client teams to better manage project scope and delivery, capture out of scope revenue, minimize write-offs, improve matter efficiency, and align project deliverables with client expectations. Primary Responsibilities include:
- Advising attorneys on strategies to maximize profitability through ongoing matter performance.
- Researching historical matters and preparing analysis to inform and compare budget proposals and build on a database of budgets to enhance pricing accuracy.
- Designing templates to assist attorneys with creating budgets, and monitoring engagements throughout the matter lifecycle, providing reports to management regularly.
- Managing multiple workstreams and competing deadlines.
- Supporting client teams in defining matter scope, track and manage changes.
- Documenting and maintaining detailed records of procedures, assumptions, methodologies and sources of information utilized in analysis.
- Quantifying and recording risks in projects including mitigation strategies.
- Continually working to ensure quality and accuracy of work product. Contributing to team to develop tools, processes, and procedures to maximize efficiency.
Additional Responsibilities may include:
- Clearly communicating analysis, financial metrics, and budget reports with lawyers to ensure success of individual attorneys and the firm overall.
- Modeling matter realization and profitability with scenario analysis to support pricing decisions by firm management.
- Coordinating with business development partners to complete requests for proposals (RFPs) and meet deadlines.
DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor s degree, preferably in Business, Systems, Accounting or a related field, or equivalent job experience.
- 2+ years of project management, within a law firm, law practice, or professional services legal department. AmLaw 100 experience is preferable.
- The ideal candidate is a strong collaborator with a million great ideas to share.
- Strong business acumen and analytical skills and the ability to learn and apply new skills quickly and effectively are essential.
- Knowledge of corporate finance and accounting principles and terminology, with general knowledge of the legal services business.
- Understanding of Litigation lifecycle and terminology is a plus.
- Must be well organized with strong attention to detail and good business judgment, capable of handling sensitive information with appropriate discretion. o Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Excel and PowerPoint, is required. Advanced Excel proficiency, including experience with pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, etc. is preferred. Experience with SharePoint, database management, data presentation software, Visual Basic, and SQL is a plus.
- Ability to connect report data and statistics with business outcomes for analysis and forecasting.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, demonstrating an ability to explain complex concepts to professionals of different backgrounds with confidence.
- Ability to work independently and maintain flexibility with respect to assigned tasks due to changing deadlines and deliverables in a fast-paced environment.
- Must have a positive attitude and be results-oriented, dependable, adhere to established time commitments and demonstrate strong customer service attributes.
Jenner & Block LLP is an equal opportunity employer. Recruitment and employment decisions are not made on the basis of an individual s race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity and/or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions, arrest record, matriculation, personal appearance, political affiliation, marital, parental, veteran, military, or order of protection status, or any other protected status or that of their relatives, friends, or associates.