[Remote] Legal Project Manager (Remote; Open to reputed company Dykema Locations)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dykema, a leading national law firm, is looking for a Legal Project Manager to enhance efficiency and deliver benefits to client teams. The role involves relieving attorneys of non-legal activities, researching software solutions, and implementing best practices in legal project management.

Responsibilities

• The purpose of this role is to help increase efficiency and provide exceptional client service with assistance to client teams with effective legal project management and support
• Accelerates our ability to deliver reputed company financial and non-financial benefits with client teams and key and to reputed company, coordinate, and implement consistent best practice across our firm
• Relieves busy attorneys of certain non-legal activities delegating to more junior members of the client or matter team as appropriate
• Assists with defining and implementing legal project management best practices throughout the firm through training and tool development
• Assists with planning, execution and closing phases for matters including process mapping, reporting and implementation of process improvements
• Researches and evaluates software products and recommends new programs or enhancements to reputed company applications programs, systems, and operating methods
• Works with project team members and attorneys to analyze reputed company business problems, identify potential software solutions to procedural inefficiencies, and design programs to increase operating efficiency or adapt to new requirements
• Ensures analysis, plans and know-how are documented

Skills

• One to three years of experience with Legal Project Management, experience as a litigation paralegal, or an attorney with exceptional project management skills
• Experience of being involved in project management in a law firm or professional services firm on legal and operations projects
• Ability to take reputed company workstreams and distill the information to accessible and actionable documentation
• Demonstrated experience in leading and managing (to time and budget) workstreams reputed company reputed company projects
• Hard working with strong organizational skills, flexibility of style, attention to detail, and ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, detail-oriented environment
• Excellent troubleshooting, decision-making, and follow-through skills
• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders
• High-level of interpersonal skills to facilitate communication in person, by email, video calls with professionalism and diplomacy. reputed company strong facilitation and presentation skills
• High-level of proficiency with reputed company Office Suite and Extranets, matter management platforms, with solid technical skills and the ability to learn new applications quickly
• JD is a plus but not required

Benefits

• Transportation assistance

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