Legal Project Manager

Location: Remote (US)

Compensation: $90-$110/hour

Job Type: Contract (40 hours/week)

Duration: 12 months

Our client is seeking an experienced Legal Program Manager to support its Global Legal team in driving strategic legal spend management, outside counsel optimization, and operational excellence initiatives. This is a fully remote opportunity offering the chance to work cross-functionally with legal, finance, procurement, and external law firm partners.

This role is ideal for a legal operations professional with experience in both law firm and in-house environments who enjoys contract negotiations, legal pricing strategy, vendor management, and process improvement.

Job Responsibilities:

• Support the Legal Program Manager with legal spend management initiatives.
• Negotiate Alternative Fee Arrangements (AFAs) and identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Assist with AFAs training and adoption across the legal team.
• Manage Requests for Proposal (RFPs), including vendor evaluations and stakeholder interviews.
• Partner with legal stakeholders to develop and standardize RFP templates.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build and optimize RFP workflows and tools.
• Draft process documentation, playbooks, and operational best practices.
• Support the rollout of the Master Retainer Agreement (MRA) program and completion of outstanding agreements.
• Negotiate billing rates and pricing arrangements with outside counsel.

Qualifications:

• Prior experience at both an in-house legal department and a law firm
• Project/Program management experience
• Strong contract negotiations skills for both internal and external stakeholders
• Outside Counsel management specifically experience in benchmarking hourly rates
• Legal pricing experience specifically knowledge of and experience in negotiating AFAs
• Experience in developing/implementing solutions or operational improvements

Preferred:

• PMP or similar certification
• Prior experience at a tech company
• Familiarity with eBilling software
• Familiarity with online RFP software
• Familiarity with Tableau and other dashboarding tools

Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, EAP program, commuter benefits and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable.

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• The California Fair Chance Act

• Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance

• Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers

• San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

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Pay Details: $90.00 to $110.00 per hour

Search managed by: Meredith Bruno

Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, EAP program, commuter benefits and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Military connected talent encouraged to apply

To read our Candidate Privacy Information Statement, which explains how we will use your information, please navigate to https://www.lhh.com/us/en/candidate-privacy

The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:

• The California Fair Chance Act
• Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance
• Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers
• San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

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