White & Case LLP
Senior Manager, Legal Project Management
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About the Role
Our Finance team is responsible for ensuring robust, accurate financial operations and plays a critical role in managing the Firm’s financial health. We handle a broad spectrum of financial activities, including:
- Financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting
- Taxation and partner compensation
- Payroll administration
- Treasury and cash flow management
- Inventory management (billing, collections, and profitability analysis for clients, matters, and timekeepers)
- Statutory accounting and compliance processes
- Preparation of financial statements, reports, and performance analyses
- Collaboration with other departments to optimise expenses, improve processes, and implement cost-saving initiatives
This critical opportunity involves joining a forward-thinking team at a pivotal point in the firm’s evolution—focusing on client service excellence and operational innovation to strengthen financial stability and drive growth.
We are particularly seeking a Senior Manager in Legal Project Management (LPM), graduating from the Firm’s global LPM team. This role offers the chance to foster growth, strategic collaboration, and high-value contribution across one of the Firm’s legal projects.
Role Overview: Senior Manager, Legal Project Management (LPM)
This role will be pivotal in driving the expansion and adoption of LPM, ensuring maximum client value through innovative, data-driven, and efficient project delivery. Reporting to the Global Director of Strategic Pricing, the Senior Manager will interface with partners, senior decision-makers, and external clients. Responsibilities include:
- Leading legal project delivery, across multiple jurisdictions, business functions, and practice areas.
- Guiding project teams to achieve client and firm profitability targets, through robust budget tracking, cost forecasting, and utilisation of LPM best practices.
- Providing directed leadership on global projects, with a focus on strategic clients and high-value matters.
- Developing senior LPM capability, stakeholder relationships, and collaborative team management.
- Gaining operational insight into financial metrics, tools, and measurement frameworks that support legal project success.
Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities
- LPM Strategy & Implementation:
- Collaborate with LPM leadership to build out and grow the LPM global capability and pipeline, including influencing Partners/lawyers to adopt LPM approaches on critical matters.
- Co-deliver legal projects across the matter lifecycle, from initiation to conclusion, ensuring alignment with client expectations on scope, timelines, and delivery outcomes.
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Project & Operational Leadership:
- Conduct Kick-Off Meetings, Project Team Meetings, and Steering Meetings, ensuring strong documentation and ownership.
- Define and validate project scope and risks at the onset, tracking timelines, dependencies, and deliverables rigorously.
- Budget and financial management—paying special attention to achieving cost targets while delivering value to clients.
- Continuously monitor and escalate scope, timeline, and budget shifts to ensure proactive/effective project adjustments.
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Stakeholder Relationships & Communication:
- Forge synergies between Client, Firm’s legal teams, and multi-regional projects, including expert liaison with opposing counsel and key vendors.
- Serve as primary LPM contact for key stakeholders, offering proactive solutions to client queries in both strategy and operational delivery.
- Conduct Lessons Learned sessions and improve documentation to embed LPM best practices and methodologies.
- Represent the Fitness on key deliverables including support for pitches and tender submissions, showcasing LPM as a distinct value add.
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Performance Optimization & Continuous Improvement:
- Influence continuous process improvement, leveraging lean methodologies and business process mapping to streamline operational efficiency.
- Advise leadership on incremental and strategic LPM innovations that keep the Firm competitive in client expectations.
- Mentor junior team members (LPM Analysts, Managers), supporting their professional development and alignment with Firm goals.
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Client Portfolio & Matrix Management:
- Oversee client portfolios, focusing on legal operations, disputes, transactions, and strategic client initiatives.
- Systematically cross-sell LPM services globally and integrate cross-disciplinary expertise to deliver holistic project solutions.
Skills & Qualifications
Essential Criteria:
- Specialist Legal Project Management Expertise: Demonstrable hands-on LPM track record, including experience guiding complex, multi-disciplinary legal projects.
- Strong Change Management Ability: Experience advising colleagues on process/operational transformation and fostering adoption of new legal service models.
- Advanced Project Management Proficiency: Fluency in project scope, timelines, budgeting, risk mitigation, alongside experience leveraging project management methodologies (e.g., Waterfall, Agile).
- Technical & Tools Skills: Proficiency in:
- Legal tech software, eDiscovery platforms, online portals/data rooms (Extranets, SharePoint).
- Collaboration tools (MS Teams, Scrum, SAP, etc.).
- Reporting & Analytical Tools (MS Project, Power BI, Excel).
- Financial & Business Agility: Ability to interpreting client financial metrics, analyzing cost variances, and contributing to innovative client pricing strategies.
- Leadership Prowess: Ability to manage multiple channels/systems simultaneously—balancing international geographies, project phases, and client priorities with absolute focus.
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Desired Qualifications:
- Graduate level education (Degree in Law, Business, or Relevant Postgraduate Qualification).
- Formal project management certification (e.g., Senior APMQ or qualified PMP).
Additional Traits:
- Lee’s focus in cost efficiency, financial reporting perspectives that forward information value to Firm.
- Enterprise attitude—challenging assumptions while crafting flexible, client-centric solutions.
- Dynamic problem solver, thriving under high-pressure, diverse, and collaborative environments.
- Comfortable public-facing role: Presenting LPM opportunities and value to Senior Leadership speeches, tenders, and Client meetings.
- Flexibility required: “Job crafting” capability (4 days/week in office, Monday to Thursday with standard hours of 9:30 AM–6:00 PM).
Why It Matters
This role is the cornerstone in LPM globalisation, with clear expectation to drive value, influence outcomes, and build a legacy of operational excellence. Ideal candidates will have:
- The entrepreneurial mindset to take ownership without losing sight of strategy.
- Bilingual or multilingual skills (advantageous for cross-border client interaction).
- A portfolio demonstrating partnerships with either multidisciplinary teams or direct commitment to revenue-generating engagements.
About White & Case
A global leader in business law, with six continents and over 1,000 legal and LPM professionals united by collaboration, technique, and enduring excellence. Based in over 30 markets with deep expertise in addressing complex, cross-border challenges.
We foster agility, professional development, and cultural inclusivity, aligning with firmwide initiatives to meet constantly shifting client expectations. While White & Case is committed to equal opportunities, tailored accommodations for accessibility are welcomed: please email [contact] for tailored support.
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