Responsibilities

The Legal Operations Manager will oversee quarterly and annual budget planning with Finance across legal practice areas, collaborate with stakeholders to forecast and budget legal spend, develop and implement strategies to reduce outside counsel spend while maintaining quality, implement a top-tier law firm panel program (preferred vendor panel) and a spend optimization strategy with outside counsel, manage onboarding for new firms, selection, and performance evaluation of outside counsel, and negotiate and manage outside counsel billing rates and alternative fee arrangements. They will also oversee e-billing, ensuring accuracy and compliance, and maintain legal technologies and processes for e-billing, matter management, and spend analytics, reporting into the Director, Head of Legal Operations and collaborating with internal legal teams, finance, and outside counsel.