Legal Project Manager Resume
Objective : As a Legal Project Manager, served as a primary liaison between the legal team and customer support, offering expert guidance on legal matters, data protection, and privacy compliance, ensured that all company operations adhere to applicable privacy laws and regulations, including but not limited to GDPR, CCPA, and other regional data protection laws.
Skills : Project Management, Understanding of legal terminology.
Description :
- Collaborated closely with the legal team to review and analyze lease contracts, ensuring they align with legal requirements and company policies.
- Stayed updated on evolving privacy laws and regulations, adapting company practices as necessary to maintain compliance.
- Actively monitored and identified potential fraudulent activities within our digital mailbox system, leveraging your legal expertise to assess risks.
- Conducted comprehensive investigations and analyses of reported incidents, identifying patterns or trends associated with fraudulent activities.
- Collaborated with the customer support team to receive and document leads related to fraud prevention, ensuring accurate record-keeping and legal compliance.
- Provided necessary information and support for legal proceedings related to fraud prevention, as required.
- Reviewed lease contracts with meticulous attention to detail, ensuring they align with legal guidelines and company policies.
Experience
2-5 Years
Level
Executive
Education
Bachelor’s Degree in Law
Legal Project Manager Resume
Headline : As a Legal Project Manager, contributed to discussions of engagement management strategies, goals, and related deliverables, sought out opportunities to streamline processes and improve project efficiency.
Skills : Processes, and documentation, Familiarity with various areas of law.
Description :
- Identified potential risks and opportunities for improvement, determining potential solutions, and communicating this information to LMI leadership.
- Skilled with Lean/Six Sigma project/process principles.
Scoped, planned, budgeted, executed, and managed new and ongoing projects, and for working across departments to ensure effective execution of tasking and adherence to budget and scope of work.
- Monitored projects, promptly communicating any risks to budget or schedule, and providing regular, detailed reports on projects and clients to LMI management.
- Partnered with the firm’s Pricing team to develop detailed budgets and matter work plans by compiling, reviewing, and documenting historical data and other key data points for client budgets.
- Leveraged sample budget tools and prepared projections of attorney hours, operations costs, eDiscovery costs, and other types of costs from inception to resolution required to achieve project goals.
- Coordinated the implementation and utilization of task codes to track work.
- Tracked and analyzed actual engagement time and costs against budget, and helped billing partners to address expected budget variance.
Experience
5-7 Years
Level
Executive
Education
BBA
Legal Project Manager Resume
Headline : As a Legal Project Manager, compared matter progress to budget and convey status to firm attorneys and clients, planned and tracked timelines, milestones and dependencies.
Skills : Communication, Analytical and Problem-Solving.
Description :
- Facilitated training sessions, workshops, and seminars as needed, ensuring engaging and effective delivery.
- Utilized various training techniques to enhance participant engagement and knowledge retention.
- Developed and implemented evaluation methods to measure the effectiveness of training programs.
- Collected and analyzed data from training evaluations to identify areas for improvement and make data-driven decisions.
- Developed and managed the budget for learning and development programs, ensuring cost-effective use of resources.
- Monitored expenditures and made adjustments to stay within budget constraints.
- Stayed current with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in learning and development.
Experience
5-7 Years
Level
Executive
Education
BBA
Legal Project Manager Resume
Objective : As a Legal Project Manager, maintained and tracked large volumes of data, prioritize workload, coordinate multiple projects simultaneously, meet deadlines, and ability to be flexible and adapt to change, leveraged and used additional programs, including LPM, Pricing, budgeting and financial management software, worked knowledge of legal services financial and billing systems preferred.
Skills : Familiarity with legal software and document management systems, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution.
Description :
- Protected and maintained confidential and sensitive information.
- Understood all background and context to assigned agenda items, and interact with Team Members, members of the public, Board Members and external stakeholders, and interested parties in the community.
- Guided project teams and department leads through the project management process.
- Created, monitored, and conducted ongoing analysis of scope documents, staffing plans, and budgets in coordination with other LMI departments.
- Met with project teams regularly to ensure adherence to project plans and proactively intervening as needed to help teams to deliver results to expectations and within budget.
- Created and regularly generating budgeting and task management reports for use in communicating with clients and to help LMI leadership assess contract performance against estimates, identify potential modifications, and ensure alignment with objectives.
- Developed appropriate pricing structures in consultation with LMI leadership.
Experience
2-5 Years
Level
Executive
Education
BBA
Senior Legal Project Manager Resume
Summary : As a Senior Legal Project Manager, maintained data integrity, developed, and maintained reports in the HyperView environment, and supervising, coordinating, monitoring, and programming processes within Anaqua, helped design and implemented best practices and continuously improve procedures and systems to support IP team strategic goals and objectives.
Skills : Leadership and Team Management, Proficiency with project management software.
Description :
- Planned and executed IP team projects working with cross-functional associates and external partners to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the IP team.
- Drove design, implementation, and maintenance of IP docketing policies, guidelines, processes, forms, and associated projects in collaboration with IP professionals.
- Collaborated with legal operations colleagues on law department processes, including billing.
- Enforced outside counsel compliance with docketing and billing procedures.
- Developed and implemented user training, including user guides for associates and outside counsel.
- Ensured implementation of substantive law and rule changes.
- Assisted other IP Legal OPs team members with their day-to-day tasks, given vacation, workloads, and volume.
Experience
10+ Years
Level
Senior
Education
BBA
Legal Project Manager Resume
Summary : As a Legal Project Manager used, managed, and programmed IP management/docketing software (Anaqua strongly preferred), as well as managing and using billing systems (Brightflag or Legal Tracker preferred), an expert with document management systems and USPTO sites including Patent Center and TSDR.
Skills : Project Management, Legal.
Description :
- Expert in a large in-house IP department or law firm, handling a large volume of patent preparation and prosecution matters.
- Developed legal operations processes and documentation.
- Managed data quality and integrity, monitoring metrics and developing reports.
- Taught coached, and worked within multiple teams.
- Identified issues, developed creative solutions, and learned quickly.
- Managed vendor relationships, and worked with vendors, including outside law firms to optimize shared software and electronic records.
- Provided research, analytical support, and project management to department leadership in the management of strategic projects in the areas of initiation, planning, development, implementation, and ongoing monitoring in the best interest of the Legal Department's business operations.
Experience
7-10 Years
Level
Management
Education
BBA
Legal Project Manager Resume
Headline : As a Legal Project Manager, oversaw development and continue maintenance of Legal Departments production, documentation, and tracking operation systems, liaisoned with internal business unites to develop and assist in preparing timely agenda item submissions for Governing Board, Committee, or applicable agencys meetings.
Skills : Risk Management, Communicational Skills.
Description :
- Analyzed, reviewed, and timely produced executive summary of meeting agenda items.
- Attended all Board, Committee, or applicable agency meetings.
- Acted as the back up to the Secretary of the Governing Board, Committee, or agency to conduct and document public meetings.
- Researched, analyzed and developed internal policies and procedures address Legal Department’s internal operations.
- Established and maintained effective working relationships with others throughout the organization.
- Worked with the LPM team that offers best in class LPM support in an AMLaw 50 firm.
- Helped develop and implement the firm's LPM strategy.
Experience
5-7 Years
Level
Executive
Education
BBA
Legal Project Manager Resume
Summary : As a Legal Project Manager, trained and coached lawyers and staff on LPM best practices, managed and Implemented the firm's LPM software and tools.
Skills : Analytical Skills, Time Management.
Description :
- Oversaw the firm's LPM process for assigned practice groups.
- Worked with partners and clients to develop and manage project budgets and timelines.
- Identified and implemented process improvements.
- Helped create tracking and reporting best practices.
- Worked beyond scheduled hours as needed to help achieve goals and deadlines.
- Priced of legal services, including a strong working knowledge of non-hourly pricing models.
- Applied mathematical and basic statistical concepts, including fractions, percentages, and ratios, to large volumes of data to reach meaningful conclusions.
Experience
7-10 Years
Level
Management
Education
BBA
Legal Project Manager Resume
Headline : As a Legal Project Manager, worked closely with internal stakeholders to ensure contractual compliance and identify any potential risks or issues, offered legal expertise and recommendations to address contract-related matters.
Skills : Financial Acumen, Technical Skills.
Description :
- Maintained open lines of communication with both internal teams and external stakeholders.
- Collaborated effectively with the legal team, customer support, and other departments to achieve legal compliance and fraud prevention goals.
- Identified patterns and assessed risks related to fraud prevention and privacy compliance.
- Expert in contract review and analysis, with a keen eye for legal details.
- Worked collaboratively in a team environment while also being self-motivated and proactive.
- Managed assigned matters to maximize efficiency, with a focus on planning, monitoring, and reporting.
- Identified opportunities for cost savings and cost control.
Experience
5-7 Years
Level
Executive
Education
BBA
Legal Project Manager Resume
Headline : As a Legal Project Manager, helped build and enhance the companys legal project management efforts, partnering with internal stakeholders to define and implement LPM best practices, served as a trusted matter operations advisor to each matter leader.
Skills : Leadership, Detail-oriented.
Description :
- Coordinated RFPs for priority matters, including working with legal team members to design, build, launch, review, and award RFPs.
- Drove collection of matter data and deliver recurring updates to legal leaders.
- Built and maintained legal project management guidelines, training, and playbooks to support the Legal Department.
- Sought ways to improve current processes to maximize productivity, workflow, and efficiency in all aspects of the LPM function.
- Assisted eBilling team with outside counsel invoice review for matter compliance and work performed.
- Provided project support, reporting, and analysis as requested about outside counsel management and legal operations.
- Expert in legal project management, expert in a law firm, or large in-house legal team preferred.
Experience
5-7 Years
Level
Executive
Education
BBA
