Legal Project Examples
Strategic Planning
M&A Rollout
Scheduled initiatives, monitored resources, and charted progress with dashboards for newly integrated division post merger. Designed legal department goals that aligned with KPIs of other departments as well as the enterprise as a whole.
Project - Program Management
Regulatory Compliance - Privacy & Data Security
Applied project management principles to create and launch new regulatory compliance internal processes with buy-in from execs and program administrators. Lead upfront planning, coordinated resources, identified interdependencies, managed workplan, tracked questions/answers, balanced project scope, time, people and cost to manage deliverables and control risks.
Service Delivery Models
Real Estate - Construction
Helped client design new RFP procedure to decrease time and costs for both vendor and client to analyze services, price deliverables, and identify best options. In an effort to match the right work to the right resources, analyzed work types and processes, defined and structured relationships, tapped experts for input, and modified legal materials to meet client KPI goals.
Financial Management
Finance
Managed financial planning for multiple legal departments, allocated financial resources, forecasted expenses and created budgets that allocate resources efficiently.
Organization Optimization and Health
Head of Legal Departments
Designed and executed HR related activities in legal departments, including onboarding, training, work allocation, performance management, talent development, and employee communications. Through staffing optimization, helped employees improve contributions to the bottom line and explore new skills.
Information Governance
Operations and Compliance
Provided guidance on collection, monitoring, auditing, and reporting to support compliance and operational requirements. Managed info-sec maturity growth for COO.
Firm and Vendor Management
Law Firm Management
Oversaw vendors and law firms from selection through performance management and payments. Selected and managed law firms to capture value for both sides (including atypical opportunities for mutual support). Improved transparency and accountability via structured reviews of changing business needs and vendor impact.
Business Intelligence
Data Collection, Curation and Analytics
Managed strategic use of vendor relationship data and contract data to design cross-departmental visibility. Used analytics software to automate processes, provide useful insights, and support flow.
Technology
Business Affairs
Created and deployed self-service tools to business teams. Optimized use of technology to improve vendor communication and deiverables, including planning, selection, procurement, plus training and promotion of adoption.
Practice Operations
Law Department Communications and Client Workfow
Lowered costs by enabling lawyers to focus on highest value tasks. Analyzed external vendor and internal business job functions to identify opportunities for streamlining workflows. This resulted in increasing speed and efficiencies in overall legal (and business) output.
Knowledge Management
Standard Operating Procedures and Information Assets
Mapped knowledge assets (KAs) for various departments. Established knowledge management (KM) principles and maturity leveling to support continued improvement. This resulted in KAs that could be easily found, curated, shared and leveraged. Using KM principles as a component in internal and vendor processes reduces “brain drain” as employees and vendors come and go.
Training and Development
Law Dept. Management Duties: Onboarding and Employee Growth
Povided high-quality targeted training. Designed new hire experiences that set up employees for success. Managed CLE requirements across the Legal Dept. to ensure compliance and build skills in important emerging areas.
