at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Katten is a full-service law firm with approximately 700 attorneys in locations across the United States and in London and Shanghai. Clients seeking sophisticated, high-value legal services turn to Katten for counsel locally, nationally and internationally. The firms core areas of practice include corporate, financial markets and funds, insolvency and restructuring, intellectual property, litigation, real estate, structured finance and securitization, transactional tax planning, private credit and private wealth. Katten represents public and private companies in numerous industries, as well as a number of government and nonprofit organizations and individuals.
Legal Project Manager
The Legal Project Manager (LPM) supports client-facing engagements to ensure successful implementation of legal service delivery models and plans. This position provides support for all practice groups and will affect efficiency, quality, profitability, competitive position, and client satisfaction. This position will interact with legal and business professionals internally and externally and will help structure and scale the Pricing and Legal Project Management teams capability to provide direction, analytics, and coordination to the legal engagements being executed by the firms attorneys. The Legal Project Manager maintains professionalism and strict confidentiality in all client and firm matters.
Katten offers a hybrid work model, allowing the flexibility to work both on-site and remotely on a regular basis (KattenFlex). The Legal Project Manager can be located in either our Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, or Washington, D.C. office.
Essential Duties and Responsibilitiesinclude, but may not be limited to, the following. Other duties may be requested and/or assigned. Essential functions are primary job duties that an individual must be able to perform successfully with or without a reasonable accommodation. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Assist legal teams with the delivery of legal services for complex, high profile client engagements employing project management methods and tools.
- Provide project management oversight, principles, methodologies, and tools as defined by legal teams and practice groups for internal and client-facing projects across a variety of subject matter areas.
- Establish and implement legal project management best practices for scoping, budgeting, monitoring, and communicating throughout the lifecycle of an engagement.
- Provide training and guidance on the principles and benefits of legal project management to all key stakeholder groups, including clients, the firm, and the attorneys.
