Legal Project Coordinator - Leeds, United Kingdom - Addleshaw Goddard

Addleshaw Goddard

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Leeds, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Description

THE FIRM

At Addleshaw Goddard we not only provide technical excellence and experience but, crucially, demonstrate real insight into our clients and what really matters to them.

A natural choice for FTSE100 clients and their equivalents in other markets and for the best talent, our people fulfil their potential in an environment where they are developed and valued.

We put ourselves in our clients' shoes, as part of a team of effective business people as well as efficient lawyers.

CULTURE, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

THE TEAM AND ROLE

The Legal Project Coordinator (LPC) role is part of the Legal Project Management (LPM) team in AG's innovative alternative delivery function 'Law, Plus More'.

The LPC role works with the Head of LPM and the wider LPM team to provide management support to significant client matters and to key internal initiatives.

This role provides support to significant client projects with the aim to improve profitability, improve the quality of service delivery, and adopt best practice project management approaches and tools.

Significant client projects can be across the spectrum of AG's client services but would typically be large in size and volume, across multiple locations, and involve large Addleshaw Goddard fee earner and client teams.

The LPC role also provides support and input to internal LPM team initiatives.

The LPC is a naturally organised individual, an excellent team player, works in a well-structured way, has a good attention to detail, enjoys working to high quality standards, is proactive and takes initiative.

The LPM team puts high emphasis on the development of its team members, opportunities for formal qualifications are available, as well as a curriculum of training courses and experiences.

Attendance in the office is flexible and typically 3 days per week. Occasional travel to client sites may be required.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Fee tracking and monitoring for supported client matters

Assist our delivery teams to achieve better budget control and profitability
Budget monitoring, including the creation, update and analysis of financial reports, based on information from AG's systems, that are either clientfacing or internal
Coordination with relevant Finance teams to ensure accurate financial reporting is provided
Preparing and managing client status reports (typically in Excel or PowerPoint)

Support planning, develop comms materials, track matters and develop processes

Coordination of and input into planning documents
Support the development of materials for comms and presentation purposes including timelines
Support the development of processes and document good practice materials

Provide support for client team collaboration sites

Set up collaboration sites; supporting client team access, entering and updating content and data within document repositories, databases, calendar/events, action items, databases, etc.
Development and maintenance of project or client specific collaboration sites (HighQ, MS Teams, MS Sharepoint)

General Legal Project Management Team development

Maintain and update internal sites for Firm and LPM team (e.g. LPM pages on the AG Intranet)
Capture, document, and maintain relevant LPM case studies and metrics from the LPM team
Support coordination of regular LPM calls and meetings, and disseminate materials as appropriate
Contribute to the development of LPM related assets as appropriate

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQURED

Essential criteria:

2 years+ relevant working experience
Consistently demonstrates administrative competencies to the highest level
Strong technical skills (experience with SharePoint and HighQ an advantage)
Ability to manage imperfect (financial) data sets
Previous professional services sector experience preferred

Technical and personal skills:

Cando attitude, highly selfmotivated & selfstarter
Ambition to learn and develop to gain skills, experience, and responsibilities
Ability to build empathy and trust
A positive team member and active contributor in a team environment
High level organisational skills and precise attention to detail
Robust ability to bounce back when challenged
Highly flexible
Pragmatic
Excellent time management, written and verbal skills
Highly numerate. Competency in Excel (for fees analysis and reporting)

Desirable:

Relevant undergraduate degree with 2.1 classification or above preferred
Demonstrable interest in, and understanding of, fundamental project management concepts and of law firm / professional services project management approaches
Formal Project Management qualification (e.g. PRINCE2 or APM) an advantage
Technical legal skills and experience, for example working experience as a junior lawyer or paralegal
Specialist skills and experience in a core project management capability, for example PMO, financial control, reporting or process design

Firm Benefits
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