Practice Support Administrator

• Support the day-to-day operations of designated practice groups
• Partner with Practice Group Leaders and Senior Practice Directors to execute strategic priorities and business plans
• Monitor KPIs and identify risks, opportunities, and emerging trends impacting practice performance
• Conduct operational assessments and recommend process improvements
• Coordinate practice-specific initiatives, special projects, technology adoption, and change management activities
• Prepare executive-level reports, presentations, and analyses
• Attend practice group meetings, develop action plans, track follow-up activities, and ensure timely execution
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and annual business planning
• Monitor revenues, profitability, realization, utilization, leverage, collections, aged receivables, rates, and productivity
• Analyze financial and operational performance against budgets, prior-year performance, and industry benchmarks
• Identify profitability improvements through staffing optimization, workflow improvements, and resource allocation
• Produce recurring and ad hoc practice performance reports
• Provide competitive intelligence and market research
• Monitor attorney and paraprofessional utilization and support staffing and workload management
• Analyze trends related to productivity, retention, promotion, performance, and capacity
• Support evaluation, promotion, compensation, and talent review processes
• Identify professional development and succession planning needs
• Collaborate on talent acquisition, onboarding, retention, and performance management initiatives
• Identify staffing gaps, capacity constraints, and resource allocation opportunities
• Support attorney and paraprofessional recruiting initiatives
• Support strategic growth initiatives through business analysis, market intelligence, and performance reporting
• Monitor and report on strategic initiatives and business development activities
• Support preparation of practice plans and progress reporting against strategic objectives
• Report to a Senior Practice Director

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with strong academic credentials
• 5+ years' experience, preferably in a law firm or professional services environment
• Ability to work in a professional team environment and interact at all levels in a fast-paced legal environment
• Proactive work ethic with the ability to manage multiple requests, assess priorities and achieve solutions under tight deadlines
• Professional self-starter who shows ownership and strong attention to detail
• Strong project management, organizational, and stakeholder management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to apply innovation in identifying problems and in proposing and implementing solutions

Core Competencies

Demonstrates strong project management and organizational skills while supporting strategic initiatives in a professional services environment. Proficient in financial analysis, operational assessments, and performance reporting to drive practice group success.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Project Management
• Financial Analysis
• Operational Assessment
• Stakeholder Management
• Strategic Planning

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Budgeting
• Forecasting
• KPI Monitoring
• Process Improvement
• Market Research
• Performance Reporting
• Data Analysis
• Resource Allocation
• Workflow Optimization
• Talent Acquisition

Soft Skills

• Communication
• Proactive Work Ethic
• Attention to Detail
• Team Collaboration
• Problem Solving

Industry Keywords

• Law Firm
• Professional Services
• Practice Group
• Business Development
• Performance Metrics