Senior Legal Project Manager

King & Spalding is a leading global law firm with a commitment to excellence, innovation, and the seamless delivery of legal services. We harness innovative technology and exceptional talent to meet the complex needs of our clients in a fast-paced and dynamic legal landscape.

The Senior Legal Project Manager will be responsible for project managing some of the Firm’s largest and most complex legal matters and portfolios, working alongside practice groups, matter teams, and partners to provide strategic and operational support across project management, staffing, budgeting & fee arrangements and client communications, ensuring matters are delivered on time, within scope, and in line with client expectations.

In addition, the Senior Manager will have the opportunity to shape and scale the Firm’s Legal Project Management capabilities and best practices, drive meaningful improvements to legal service delivery and client service, through streamlining workflows, championing process efficiencies, and maximizing matter performance.

This role reports to the Director of Pricing and Legal Project Management and have line management responsibility for other team members.

• Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of complex legal matters and client portfolios by developing and maintaining matter plans, (including timelines, milestones & deliverables), performance trackers, status reports, and communication plans.
• Partner with attorneys, clients, business services personnel, and other stakeholders to define matter scope, objectives, staffing needs, roles, responsibilities, work streams, and key success measures.
• Develop, monitor, and manage matter and portfolio budgets, including spend tracking, forecasting, timelines, deliverables, scope changes, budget revisions/issues; identify risks/bottlenecks and elevate concerns appropriately; and recommend practical mitigation or corrective actions.
• Serve as a senior point of contact for partners, matter teams, clients, and key internal stakeholders, providing consolidated updates, executive summaries, strategic insights, and recommendations across matters and portfolios.
• Facilitate matter governance and collaboration, including kick-off meetings, project team meetings, steering meetings, agenda development, follow-up tracking, and coordination across practice groups, offices, external counsel, vendors, and clients.
• Support fee arrangement and client outside counsel guideline management by helping prepare summaries, communicate and monitor the implementation thereof, across matters and client portfolios.
• Advise partners and matter teams on staffing and resource allocation strategies, balancing capacity, expertise, leverage, workload, and client requirements to support efficient and effective matter delivery.
• Develop, refine, and promote LPM methodologies, templates, playbooks, workflows, reporting tools, dashboards, and best practices to improve consistency, scalability, efficiency, and profitability across the Firm.
• Contribute to business development and client relationship efforts by supporting pitches, RFP responses, client presentations, LPM collateral, and opportunities to demonstrate innovative and efficient legal service delivery.
• Evaluate, implement, and optimize LPM technology, data analytics, benchmarking, matter management, collaboration, and reporting tools that enhance project delivery, budget visibility, decision-making, and client service.
• Provide LPM training, coaching, and change management support to partners, associates, clients, and business services professionals to encourage adoption of project management tools, processes, and best practices.
• Supervise, mentor, and develop legal project managers, analysts, or junior team…