Senior Legal Practice Manager - Corporates

Job Description:

Great opportunity to join a leading global law firm as a Senior Practice Manager for their US Corporates practice. This is a hybrid role based in NYC, requiring 3 days in office per week.

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This role provides dedicated support to the Global and US Corporate Practice leaders and the Global management team. The main purpose of this role is to contribute to the development of the US Corporates Practice strategy and business plan and to help the US leadership and global management teams to implement this strategy and its priorities.

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Responsibilities

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• Participating in the development of the US Corporates strategies and business plans for both the practice groups and individual partners. Managing, prioritising and ensuring timely follow up on these business plans, as well as monitoring and supporting a wide range of other issues for the US leadership team;
• Providing hands on cross functional business advice, support and project leadership for the US leadership team in coordination with Finance and HR for the US team and other practice groups, to the extent applicable, and coordinating with Finance, BD and HR to ensure projects and tasks for US team are completed effectively and efficiently;
• Coordinating with the US Corporates team, individual partners and BD to execute client targeting and business generation activities;
• Working with the US leadership team to support the effective onboarding and integration of lateral partners into the US group and wider firm;
• Ensuring that the US leadership and global management teams are equipped with the necessary information regarding the US business to fulfil their management duties and that these duties are implemented via weekly management meetings;
• Coordinating with Finance to obtain statistics on billings and collections for partners in the US Corporates group and diaries for partners and associates to prepare analysis of billings, collections and activity level trends for budget purposes and otherwise as well as assisting in monitoring and reporting on the timeliness of billings, collections and diaries;
• Supporting the US leadership team in managing internal communications with the US practice group, including preparing agendas, slides, minutes and other materials for regular meetings (including US partner and management meetings, associate team meetings, meetings with US leadership and other US practice leads and input to the Corporates Board);
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• Supporting US partners and working with the US HR team to support on US Corporates associates’ career development (including assisting with the Compass review process and gathering feedback as needed) and supporting with partner candidate preparation, e.g. organizing and attending mock interviews

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Key Requirements

• 5-10+ years demonstrable experience in a similar Practice Management role, specifically within transactional practice. Law firm experience is preferred but professional services experience will also be applicable.
• Able to contribute to discussions in meetings of management and partners with confidence
• Able to work collaboratively and think creatively
• Able to challenge and shape an agenda and influence others to get things done
• Capacity to understand and juggle a wide range of issues and projects at the same time, as well as to prioritise and manage own and others’ time effectively
• Able to produce high quality work product on tight deadlines on projects requested on limited notice