Corporate Practice Manager , NY

Location: New York

Schedule: Core

Hours:

9:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., Monday – Friday

Additional hours, including evenings and weekends, as needed to fulfill responsibilities

FLSA: Exempt

Position Type: Full-Time/Regular

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP is a leading international law firm with more than 900 lawyers in offices throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. We are currently seeking a Corporate Practice Manager in the Practice Management department, reporting to the Director of Practice Management - Corporate. This role will reside in the New York office with hybrid work capabilities and will be responsible for the execution of the business needs and internal operations of the practice group across multiple offices, with a strong emphasis on its strategy, performance objectives, work allocation and professional development.

The Practice Manager is expected to perform all responsibilities with a commitment to providing superior service to the firm’s attorneys, advisors and staff, and maintaining an atmosphere of teamwork and continuous improvement.

• Support staffing partners in attorney staffing and workload management, including monitoring utilization, availability and workloads. Communicate regularly with staffing partners and associates. Proactively identify and develop solutions for productivity issues and staffing challenges.
• Work with the Director to manage annual attorney evaluation and compensation processes, including reviewing written evaluations, guiding partner discussions of evaluation messages, soliciting partner input on compensation adjustments and ensuring consistency across the Corporate practice group. Leverage knowledge acquired through processes to identify issues and establish solutions.
• Collaborate with partners, Attorney Development and Knowledge Management to plan substantive training programs for Corporate practice group attorneys.
• Track pipeline of promotion candidates. Support Practice Leaders in internal review and presentation of candidates to firm management.
• Work with Talent Development and Human Resources on initiatives related to morale, engagement and retention.
• Work with Attorney Recruiting, Attorney Development and Human Resources personnel on lateral recruiting, onboarding and integration.

• Liaise between the Director and Practice Leaders with firm management and other professional departments to help identify, develop and drive firm initiatives. Integrate firm-wide goals into practice group initiatives.
• Work with the Director, Practice Leaders and other relevant business service professionals to develop the group’s strategy and performance objectives, and lead, oversee, drive and ensure the timely execution of initiatives to support such strategy/objectives.
• Work with the Director and Practice Leaders on presentation materials for Management Committee, Partnership Admissions Committee and other firm leadership as needed.
• Financial Performance Management
• Support the Director in collections efforts, in particular with regard to mid-year and year-end processes.
• Review monthly operational expenditures and elevate issues and proposed solutions to the Director.
• Review financial reports provided by the Finance department to assess the Corporate practice group’s financial performance, identify key performance trends, prepare monthly reports, spot issues affecting the Corporate practice group’s performance and make recommendations to improve the same.
• Work with Finance, Client Value and Practice Leaders and the Director to help develop revenue and expense budgets, review and manage expenses, confirm billing rates and provide information for strategic initiatives as needed.

• Serve as a sounding board to the Director and Practice Leaders, to help minimize managerial and administrative duties. Proactively and independently identify and analyze problems, develop solutions and deliver results.
• Plan and arrange ad hoc, monthly and other periodic meetings, calls and other practice events. Liaise with Marketing, Client Value and…