Direct partnership with the COO and executive leadership in a newly created, high-impact leadership role. This position will oversee and manage the legal practice support team, ensuring strong performance and productivity while supporting the firm’s collaborative and professional environment.
Key responsibilities include developing and implementing strategies to improve the efficiency of legal processes and workflows. The role will collaborate with attorneys and other departments to identify and address practice support needs, provide leadership and guidance on legal project management best practices, and evaluate and implement legal technology solutions to support case management and document review.
The successful candidate will manage vendor relationships and negotiate contracts to ensure cost-effective solutions, monitor industry trends and innovations to maintain competitive practice support services, and ensure compliance with legal and ethical standards across practice support functions. The role is expected to draw on strong experience in legal practice support or related areas, proven leadership and team management abilities, in-depth legal technology knowledge, exceptional organizational and communication skills, a proactive and solution-oriented mindset, and the ability to build and maintain effective working relationships across departments.