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Legal Resource Manager – Fee Earner Allocation – Highly Regarded UK Law Firm

  • Job Type :

    Permanent

    Full-Time

  • Salary : To £80,000

Legal Resource Manager

We’re seeking a Legal Resource Manager with excellent stakeholder management skills, who can influence senior decision makers at a highly regarded UK law firm to drive a structured approach to managing fee earners across teams and locations, supporting diversity and inclusion, and enhancing people performance and development.

  • Salary to £80,000 + fantastic employee benefits
  • Hybrid working – 3 days in the office / 2 days WFH
  • City Location

Key Responsibilities of the Legal Resource Manager:

  • Be the business services lead for allocating work throughout the allocated teams and make sure there is a fair and equal access to work for fee earners.
  • Improve career development by giving employees access to a wider variety of work which matches their development needs and aspirations.
  • Develop excellent working and trusted relationships with Partners at the firm to gain a deep understanding on their practice, pressure points, and resourcing needs.
  • Build a Resource Management presence in key team meetings and Partners’ meetings, as necessary.
  • Review utilisation and overall hours / stats on a daily-weekly basis; flagging areas of concern to the Teams’ partners by way of providing weekly utilisation and projected capacity reports.
  • Understand / map the skills in the team and proactively monitor, remind, and chase fee earners to update their capacity forecast on a weekly basis.
  • Liaise with trainee supervisors to monitor trainee performance and allocate appropriate range of work.
  • Keep track of holidays and mapping holidays to utilisation to pro-actively recommend work re-allocation solutions ahead of time.

Skills & Requirements of the Legal Resource Manager:

  • Qualified lawyer or other professional with a law degree or relevant experience within a law firm / Resource management background.
  • Strong commercial acumen and business awareness.
  • Able to drive change and transformation; comfortable with ambiguity.
  • Persuasive and able to influence senior decision makers.
  • Experience working with resource management software would be advantageous.

Mark Irwin

mirwin@larbeyevans.com

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