Practice Support Coordinator

Morgan Lewis • Washington, DC

76d • $78,500 - $125,600

About The Position

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, one of the world’s leading global law firms with offices in strategic hubs of commerce, law, and government across North America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, is seeking to hire a Practice Support Coordinator reporting to the Senior Practice Support Manager. This position will serve as a resource for practice group attorneys and leaders, assisting with matters involving practice and client management, practice development initiatives, and perform other duties as assigned. This position is also responsible for assistance with management of the Litigation – Legacy Liability practice group’s processes, efficiencies, databases and other technology platforms and applications across the Firm. Morgan Lewis recognizes the benefits of supporting flexible working arrangements. This position will reside in our New York, Washington D.C, or Pittsburgh office with a hybrid in-office/remote working schedule which allows for you to work 3 days collaboratively in the office and 2 days remotely.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in a professional service environment, preferably law firm setting or in-house general counsel’s office; or, equivalent combination of education and experience.

Nice To Haves

• Project management skills.
• Budgeting experience.
• Planning/organizational skills.
• Problem solving skills.
• Ability to adapt to change and balance competing demands.
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, brief correspondence and memos.
• Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present routine information in one-on-one or small group situations.
• Ability to read and interpret general business documents, instructions and manuals, write routine business correspondence, and speak effectively with employees, clients, and vendors.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret business and professional publications, prepare business correspondence, proposals and reports, effectively present information to groups of employees, and respond to questions from employees, managers, clients and vendors.
• Ability to carry out detailed, but uninvolved written or oral instructions and deal with problems in routine situations.
• Ability to carry out written, oral or diagrammed instructions, involving several variables, in routine situations.
• Ability to solve practical problems, dealing with a variety of variables where little standardization exists.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, draw conclusions.

Responsibilities

• Reports to and supports the practice group leaders in the day-to-day operations of the practice.
• Responsible for data management and hygiene with practice and client documents; regularly runs and reviews discrepancy reports for practice, ensuring Firm’s client data is accurate and up-to-date; provides data quality control for practice.
• Assist attorneys and paralegal team with settlement-related work.
• Working with practice group leadership and Legal Practice Support management, assist with processing and coordination of all incoming client files; assist in development of processes to enhance file transfer efficiency.
• Assists leadership and management team with identification of issues that could impact the successful execution of practice group strategy and objectives and helps to resolve problems and mitigate risks.
• Assists in processing invoices using Chrome River.
• Provides administrative support when needed, including, but not limited to, document production, conflicts checks for new matters, business intake materials and expense forms/paperwork.
• Coordinates and participates in day-to-day client management and may serve as the initial point of contact for clients.
• Assists practice group attorneys and leaders with requests for information relating to billing history, conflicts/new business intake, billing rates, non-billable numbers, expense forms, management approvals, financial information from Elite system, etc., as needed.
• Coordinates ad-hoc reports and summary reports at the direction of the attorneys.
• Works with the key stakeholders (Legal team, Data Science team and IT team) on administrative and project management support for tasks and deliverables related to maintaining the information for the team’s case management platform, Parallex.
• Assists the Legal team with organizing, managing, and updating project-related documents within Parallex or within shared drives.
• Works with the Data Science team on data hygiene on Parallex site.
• Coordinates with practice group leaders and other Firm departments on practice development initiatives, such as responses to RFPs, developing marketing materials, and presentations.
• Assists Legal Practice Support management in promoting interaction with firm interdisciplinary practice groups.
• Assists with special firm or practice group assignments.
• Assists with special practice group sponsored events.
• Participates in the development and implementation of strategies that allow for the practice to capitalize on relationships and efficiencies across practice areas and offices.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Medical coverage, with a variety of plans.
• Health care and dependent care reimbursement accounts.
• Domestic partner coverage.
• Parental leave.
• Vacation and holiday leave.
• Life and accident insurance.
• Income protection, including sick leave, salary continuation, and long term disability.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees