Overview

Responsibilities

• Serving as the Law Organization’s liaison with outside counsel.
• Oversight of the Matter Management and e-billing system.
• Guidance of Strategic projects and initiatives, relevant policies and procedures.
• Tracking and analyzing relevant billing data, statistics, and trends.
• Providing billing reports and analysis to Law Management to assist with decision making.
• Assisting in budget monitoring and forecasting.
• Negotiating with outside counsel to ensure competitive and fair billing.
• Resolving billing disputes and discrepancies.
• Developing and implementing cost control initiatives, whilst optimizing outside counsel spend.
• Evaluating rate increase requests, implementing alternative fee arrangements, tracking and monitoring performance scorecards, and coordinating annual outside counsel meetings and other programs.
• Evaluating requests for proposals with outside counsel.
• Conducting risk assessment and developing commensurate contingency plans.
• Identifying resource requirements, processes, costs and timelines.
• Leading the sourcing of legal vendors.
• Identifying trends influencing the Law Organization’s legal spend and matter workload

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering or a related discipline.
• Minimum 12 years relevant experience with a large corporation, law firm, or professional services company.
• Demonstrable understanding of traditional and alternative fee arrangements.
• Working knowledge of relevant systems and tools available for matter, document, and vendor management, including e-billing systems.
• Ability to influence and leverage relationships within and outside the Law Organization.
• Excellent analytical skills and the ability to make informed recommendations.
• Ability to present complex information in an accurate and persuasive manner to all levels of management.
• High level of professionalism, team player, and a strong client service orientation; and,
• Ability to easily handle shifting priorities and multi-tasking in a deadline-oriented environment.