Law Firm

Our AM Law 25 law firm client is seeking to recruit a Senior Case Manager to manage a team of paralegals and oversee case management and trial preparation and support.

Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of paralegals
• Oversee case management and serve as a subject matter expert on current cases
• Maintain traditional and electronic case documents
• Manage technology resources and staffing needs
• Assist attorneys with factual research, cite-checking and document proofreading
• Oversee trial preparation and support
• Organize trial materials and maintain case calendars
• Manage vendor relationships and travel arrangements
• Attend court proceedings, prepare courtrooms and oversee trial document management
• Collaborate effectively with attorneys, court clerks, outside vendors, opposing law firms, court reporters and firm clients

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Demonstrated experience managing paralegals
• 10+ years’ experience as a senior paralegal / case manager
• Demonstrated experience managing cases, preparing for trials and attending trials

Our global Law Firm is seeking to recruit a Strategic Pricing Manager to manage day to day workflow and implement pricing strategy across all practice groups, as well as provide strategic advice to pricing analysts and assist attorneys with budgeting and pricing for RFP responses.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the day to day workflow and implement pricing strategy across all practice groups
• Provide strategic advice to pricing analysts and assist attorneys with budgeting and pricing for RFP responses
• Advise attorneys on the development, evaluation, and execution of matter budgets and alternative fee arrangements
• Oversee pricing analysts work product and ensure accuracy and delivery to meet client needs
• Draft new content, attorney communications and respond to pricing requests and RFP responses
• Establish processes, templates and best practices that can be used by analysts
• Work closely with the Business Development team and coordinate the Pricing team’s efforts to provide strategic guidance on the firm’s approach to RFP responses
• Advise on rate strategy and creative fee structures
• Assist with ongoing oversight of fee arrangement tracking and reporting
• Advise on facilitating the execution of automation pricing strategies
• Assist the Pricing Director in developing a uniform legal project management process for all practice groups
• Mentor, coach and train a team of pricing analysts

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 4+ years’ strategic pricing or project management experience at a large global law firm or professional services organization
• Prior experience mentoring and coaching junior staff
• Advanced project management and problem solving skills
• Highly motivated and outgoing personality
• Prior experience responding to RFPs
• Strong negotiating skills and the ability to influence others
• Strong knowledge of MS Office Excel and PowerPoint
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, business writing and presentation skills

Our global Law Firm client is seeking to recruit an Electronic Information Governance Analyst to support information governance and ensure electronic information is secured, monitored and ISO compliant.

Responsibilities:

• Provide day to day oversight support for electronic information monitoring and ensure information is secure and ISO compliant
• Review client information security and management guidelines and coordinate with various teams to ensure compliance with requirements
• Review and analyze third parties with privileged access to the firm and client information
• Support of the firm’s ISO 27001 initiative and 27701 PIMS privacy extension
• Respond promptly and accurately to IS assessments requested of firm clients and support of client audits of internal systems
• Oversee and monitor workflows with access to personal information
• Perform periodic reviews of business units and privilaged parties with access to information
• Monitor and review those with access to sensative information and ensure legitimacy
• Monitor and manage data loss prevention technologies
• Manage legal hold systems and implement legal holds
• Coordinate data collection from internal systems
• Coordinate data transfers for incoming and outgoing attorneys
• Assit with ad hoc information governance and compliance needs

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 5+ years’ information governance at a law firm or legal services firm
• Fundamental knowledge information governance and assurance principles and best practices
• Experience responding to internal and external client IT audit requests
• Knowledge of relevant laws and best practices relating to information assurance
• Information assurance or compliance certification preferred

Our AM Law 20 client is seeking to recruit a Marketing Communications Coordinator to support the firm’s awards, rankings and nominations submiission process and assist with market research, thought leadership and content development for digital and social media platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Directly support the firm’s awards, rankings and nominations submission process
• Conduct market research and make thought leadership recommendations
• Assist with content development across the firm’s digital and social media platforms
• Evalute new award opportunities and assist with writing original content
• Oversee the awards industry calendar, monitor relevant awards opportunities and evaluate the success of internal awards submission programs
• Manage time sensitive project deliverables and deadlines
• Work closely with marketing senior management, partners and attorneys to coordinate the firm’s participation at industry events and awards ceremonies
• Assist with media relations initiatives including the preparation of relevant materials for media interviews and events
• Assist with content development for marketing collatoral and publications
• Perform special projects as assigned

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 2-3 years’ marketing support, communications focused project management or content development experience
• Prior law firm, non-profit or government industy experience preferred
• Advanced writing, research, project management and analysis skills
• Keen interest in building a long-term career in marketing and communications
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills
• Highly motivated, creative and detail oriented

Our AM Law 25 law firm client is seeking to recruit a Senior Manager Legal Personnel to support capital markets practice leadership with professional development, talent management, staff utlization and practice administration.

Responsibilities:

• Support capital markets partners, attorneys and practice leadership with professional development, staff ulitzation and talent management
• Analyze and monitor staff skills and department workloads and make recommendations on staffing and utilization requests
• Solicit and compile staff feedback on personnel, practice administration and professional development needs and identify and report any potential issues or concerns to senior management
• Assist attorneys and support staff with workflow ultization, training requirements and career development efforts
• Plan, coordinate and manage practice events
• Conduct staff exit interviews

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• J.D. Degree a plus
• 10+ years of professional development, talent management and/or practice administration experience
• Prior law firm experience required
• Exceptional project management and time management skills
• Creative and outgoing with the ability to interact effectively with partners, attorneys and practice leadership
• Critical thinker with the keen ability to solve problems
• Superb communication and interpersonal skills

Our AM Law 25 client is seeking to recruit a Business Development Manager to develop and execute business development, strategic marketing and client development plans across the firm’s global litigtation practice groups.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute strategic marketing, client development and business development plans focused on revenue growth across the firm’s litigation practice groups
• Develop and execute strategic plans for individual attorneys, partners, practice groups, client teams, and industry groups across (US and International)
• Analyze and report on progress of all marketing objectives
• Provide hands-on marketing and business development leadership and execution support
• Work with colleagues and key internal and external stakeholders to coordinate and administer events, speaking engagements, sponsorship and thought leadership initiatives
• Work closely withe the Business Intelligence Group to obtain and analyze client, prospective client and market research to identify business development opportunities and competitive advantages
• Manage the preparation of marketing collateral, pitch materials and assist the proposal team with RFP preparation
• Oversee the creation and distribution of marketing collateral and thought leadership pieces
• Consult with internal communications team with the award submission process as necessary
• Oversee department database updates, practice and subject matter descriptions, website, biographies, etc.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 5+ years’ experience legal marketing or business development experience at a large global law firm
• Demonstrated experience supporting litigation practice areas
• Broad litigation practice experience
• Confident and highly motivated with an entrepreneurial spirit
• Ability to work independently with little supervision
• Proven experience supporting partners and attorneys with strategic planning and execution
• Advanced analytical skills and the ability to process and summarize complex information required
• Demonstrated ability to execute and achieve measurable results
• Excellent communication, writing, editing and presentation skills
• Proven ability to work in a high pressure and often stressful corporate environment
• Highly organized with a meticulous attention to detail.
• Excellent inter-personal skills.
• Resourceful and driven attitude with a “can do” attitude
• Willingness to work overtime, including occasional weekends required
• Domestic travel, although infrequent, may be required
• JD or prior law practice experience a plus

Our AM Law 30 law firm client is seeking to recruit a Senior Business Development Manager to serve as a key advisor and assume a business development leadership role for the firm’s global intellectual property practice group.

Responsibilities:

• Provide hands-on business development and strategic marketing guidance and execution to lawyers and partners across the IP practice
• Support all business development and strategic marketing objectives with a focus on strategic planning and execution
• Assist with RFP responses, client presentation development, pitch materials and other relevant marketing collateral development
• Develop original marketing content and maintain practice group literature and standard marketing collateral
• Assist with directory submission initiatives and client events
• Work closely with the firm’s knowledge management, legal research and business intelligence teams to analyze and act on competitor and market research
• Assist with lead generation and drive cross sell opportunities

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 5+ years’ Litigation focused business development and strategic marketing experience
• Demonstrated knowledge of the broad litigation arena with particular understanding of patent and intellectual property litigation
• Sharp, focused, competitive and intellectually curious personality
• Some overtime, limited weekend work hours and occasional domestic travel required
• In-depth analytical, market research and industry trend analysis skills
• Highly motivated and detail oriented with strong time management skills
• MBA or JD a plus