Junior Legal Project Manager
Posted Today by Charles Russell Speechlys
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Junior Legal Project Manager role is a six-month fixed-term contract at a leading UK law firm, designed for individuals looking to build a career in legal project management. The position offers hands-on experience in managing complex legal matters while working closely with an experienced team. The role emphasizes the development of project management skills and provides exposure to various divisions within the firm. Candidates should be organized, communicative, and eager to improve legal service delivery.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide hands-on project management support on large or high value matters under the supervision of a Senior LPM or LPM.
- Maintain matter plans, timetables, risk registers, RAID logs, and status trackers.
- Monitor progress against agreed plans, flag risks or delays, and help keep matters on track.
- Assist in preparing client-facing updates, matter dashboards, and progress reports.
- Coordinate workstreams across internal teams and, where appropriate, with clients and third parties.
- Assist with WIP tracking, billing coordination, and budget monitoring on assigned matters.
- Support the preparation of fee estimates, scope of work documents, and pricing schedules.
- Help produce matter economics reports and flag variances to the supervising LPM.
- Learn and develop working proficiency across the firm’s legal technology stack.
- Create and update matter trackers, checklists and workflow tools on matters.
- Support senior LPMS and work with colleagues in Legal Technology in deploying technology effectively.
- Progressively take ownership of smaller, lower-complexity matters, managing these end-to-end with appropriate supervision.
- Build trusted relationships with fee earner teams across the divisions you support.
- Support the LPM team with capacity, cover, and general coordination during busy periods.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of LPM templates, tools, and precedents.
- Participate actively in team meetings, training sessions, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Key Skills:
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to juggle multiple tasks and shifting priorities.
- Clear and confident communicator - written and verbal - with people at all levels.
- High attention to detail and a methodical, structured approach to work.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
- Proactive, collaborative, and solutions-focused.
- Experience in a legal, professional services, or project coordination environment (desirable).
- Prior experience in a law firm or other professional services environment (desirable).
- Exposure to transactional or contentious legal work (desirable).
- Awareness of or working towards a project management qualification (desirable).
- Experience with legal technology platforms or practice management systems (desirable).
- Interest in legal operations, innovation, pricing, or process improvement (desirable).
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Junior Legal Project Manager – 6 months FTC.
The Role
This is a genuine opportunity to build a career in legal project management at one of the UK's leading law firms. You will join a close-knit, experienced team and be given real responsibility from day one, supporting on high-value, complex matters while developing the skills and confidence to run your own matters over time.
About the team
The Legal Project Management (LPM) team plays a central role in how we deliver legal services - working alongside lawyers to manage complex matters effectively, improve transparency, and create a better experience for our clients. The team is led by a Head of Legal Project Management and currently comprises three Senior Legal Project Managers and one Legal Project Manager, each supporting one of the firm's four divisions. This role is a new addition to the team. It has been created to build capacity, broaden the team's reach, and develop the next generation of legal project management talent at Charles Russell Speechlys. The role is structured as a float, meaning you will go where the work is and gain exposure across the firm's divisions, giving you broad exposure to both transactional and contentious legal work. You are organised, curious, and eager to get stuck in. You may be early in your career or making a move from a related field, what matters most is that you have a genuine interest in how legal services are delivered and a desire to make things work better. You are comfortable working in a fast-paced professional environment, can manage competing priorities calmly, and communicate clearly with people at all levels. You take pride in the quality of your work, ask good questions, and are not afraid to take ownership.
Key Responsibilities
The following represent the primary responsibilities of the role. However, this list is not exhaustive, and the post holder may be required to undertake additional tasks and duties as reasonably requested to support the needs of the LPM Team.
- Supporting on Complex Matters
- Provide hands-on project management support on large or high value matters under the supervision of a Senior LPM or LPM.
- Maintain matter plans, timetables, risk registers, RAID logs, and status trackers.
- Monitor progress against agreed plans, flag risks or delays, and help keep matters on track.
- Assist in preparing client-facing updates, matter dashboards, and progress reports.
- Coordinate workstreams across internal teams and, where appropriate, with clients and third parties.
- Financial & Commercial Support
- Assist with WIP tracking, billing coordination, and budget monitoring on assigned matters.
- Support the preparation of fee estimates, scope of work documents, and pricing schedules.
- Help produce matter economics reports and flag variances to the supervising LPM.
- Legal Technology support
- Learn and develop working proficiency across the firm’s legal technology stack, including platforms such as HighQ, Legatics, Harvey, Miro etc.
- Create and update matter trackers, checklists and workflow tools on matters, ensuring information is accurate and up to date.
- Support senior LPMS and work with colleagues in Legal Technology in deploying technology effectively on complex matters.
- Develop an understanding of how AI-assisted tool such as Harvey are being used within the firm and how the LPM team can support their adoption on matters.
- Stay curious about developments in legal technology and contribute ideas for how tools could be used more effectively within the team.
- Independent Matter Management
- Progressively take ownership of smaller, lower-complexity matters, managing these end-to-end with appropriate supervision.
- Build trusted relationships with fee earner teams across the divisions you support.
- Team Contribution & Know-How
- Support the LPM team with capacity, cover, and general coordination during busy periods.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of LPM templates, tools, and precedents.
- Assist in embedding good project management practice across the legal teams you work with.
- Participate actively in team meetings, training sessions, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Person Specification
Essential
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to juggle multiple tasks and shifting priorities.
- Clear and confident communicator - written and verbal - with people at all levels.
- High attention to detail and a methodical, structured approach to work.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
- Proactive, collaborative, and solutions-focused — someone who takes initiative and follows through.
Desirable
- Experience in a legal, professional services, or project coordination environment.
- Prior experience in a law firm or other professional services environment.
- Exposure to transactional or contentious legal work.
- Awareness of or working towards a project management qualification (e.g. PRINCE2, PMP, APM).
- Experience with legal technology platforms or practice management systems.
- Interest in legal operations, innovation, pricing, or process improvement.
This role offers more than a first step into legal project management — it offers genuine exposure, real responsibility, and the support of a team that is invested in your development.
- Hands-on involvement in high-value, complex legal matters from the outset.
- Broad exposure across the firm's divisions.
- The opportunity to develop core LPM skills in a firm that takes legal project management seriously.
- A collaborative, down-to-earth team culture where your contribution will be noticed and valued.
Competencies
- Working together
- Integrity and respect
- Inclusive
- Personal impact and growth
- Driving high standards
- Commercial mindset
- Client - centric
- Responsible
Hybrid working - We adopt a hybrid and flexible working approach, dependent on the requirements of the role and subject to manager approval.
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