Legal Operations Manager, Outside Counsel and Spend Management

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not provided
• Description: This role will support Palo Alto Networks’ legal department by optimizing outside counsel management and spend. The individual will manage outside counsel engagements, including selection, onboarding, performance evaluation, and billing review. They will also maintain legal technologies and processes for e-billing, matter management, and spend analytics. This role will report into the Director, Head of Legal Operations and collaborate with internal legal teams, finance, and outside counsel.

Company Information

Our Mission: Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. Our Vision: A world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. Our Values: Built on disruptive innovation, collaboration, execution, integrity, and inclusion.

About Palo Alto Networks: Palo Alto Networks takes its mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are a company built on challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are. We believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed.

Your Career

This role will focus on optimizing outside counsel management and spend.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Negotiate and manage outside counsel billing rates and alternative fee arrangements.
• Oversee e-billing, ensuring accuracy.

Requirements

• Not provided

Application Instructions

• Not provided