Legal Project Manager

16 hours ago


Cape Town, South Africa Cognia Law Full time

**Cognia Law is recruiting a Legal Project Manager with solid experience in the legal field. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a global team driving change in legal services delivery**
**Company Profile**
Cognia seamlessly extends corporates, banks and law firms’ legal capability to deliver sustainable outcomes. Our goal is to connect the legal sector, moving it from a siloed approach to integrated partnerships. We help in-house legal teams by bringing simplicity to complex matters and replacing broken procedures with efficient processes.

Cognia is a Chambers-ranked law company which integrates how legal services are provided so our team, partners, clients and communities thrive together with people at the heart of what we do. We encourage our people to bring their whole self to work and focus on enabling them to realise their full potential.
**Role Description**
You will be working as part of a team of legal professionals to provide LPO and LSO services to Cognia Law’s clients.
This will include providing support as required across all of Cognia Law’s legal service lines, including contract management accounts/ projects, contract analysis/ summarisation projects, transactional due diligence accounts/ projects, and litigation support accounts/ projects.
**Key Responsibilities**:

- End-to-End project management of legal projects: from project scoping and set-up, through to execution to successful completion.
- Working as part of Cognia’s Delivery team to understand our clients challenges and requirements, and help deliver practical and innovative solutions.
- Facilitate team briefing and training (material creation and execution)
- Managing team productivity and quality
- Proactively managing risks, issues and changes
- Internal and External project reporting
- Stakeholder management
- Lessons learned and close out activities
- Scope and budget control
- Manage relationships clients, end-clients and other external stakeholders
- Plan, organise and control delivery of work
- Develop new Project Management tools to control delivery
**Job Requirements**:

- A tertiary qualification in Commerce or Management studies, Law or Information systems - with legal being advantageous
- 4+ years experience as a business facing project manager in legal services, Financial services or Professional services sector
- Maturity and professionals to be directly customer facing with international law firms, corporate and investment banking clients
- Articulate and confident
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
**Additional Beneficial Skills**
- Project management certification
- Legal Tech certification (e.g Relativity, Nuix, RAVN, Kira)
- Numeracy
- Data Analytics/AI Data Modelling
Honest communication
- Effectively articulates own views and rationale for them
- Communicates complex topics/concepts in simple ways
- Practises active listening
- Where they do not know the answer, they will be open but then take steps to find out and provide an update
Being agile
- Self-starter that is results focused
- Make suggestions for improvement from observations of other areas of the business or from external market
- Quickly understands complex information and applies it to current situations
- Adapts to fast-moving work environment where requirement and deadline frequently change
Bringing the values alive
- Prepares own development plan and takes responsibility for driving it, whilst utilising the resource and opportunities Cognia provides
- Suggests ways to further reinforce the Cognia values
- Highlights if other team members are struggling to balance work and wellbeing.
Building strong relationships
- Takes time to understand team members’ pressures in a wider context
- Publicly acknowledges help from others
- Actively encourages collaboration with others from across the business in projects
- Develops network inside and outside Cognia
Delivering excellence
- Views work as an opportunity to highlight ability and value to Cognia
- Retains focus and delivering best outcome
- Uses own time productively to deliver best outcome
- Delegates effectively but remains accountable for outcome
- Keen to take on tasks that benefit the wider business


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