Manager of Administration Special Projects
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP
- Los Angeles, CA
- 1 day ago
Highlights
The Manager of Administration - Special Projects partners closely with Office Administrators, Office Managing Partners, Deputy of Office Managing Partners, department leaders, attorneys, and firm leadership to drive operational excellence, organizational effectiveness, administrative service delivery, and strategic initiatives across the firm. Under minimal supervision, the ideal candidate leads and manages firmwide administrative initiatives, operational improvement projects, organizational change efforts, and special projects.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Los Angeles, CA |
| Industry | Legal Services |
| Company Size | 1,500 to 1,999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1979 |
| Website | http://lewisbrisbois.com/ |
Description
Overview
The Los Angeles, CA office of Lewis Brisbois, a full-service AmLaw 100 firm, is seeking a Manager of Administration - Special Projects. The Manager of Administration - Special Projects partners closely with Office Administrators, Office Managing Partners, Deputy of Office Managing Partners, department leaders, attorneys, and firm leadership to drive operational excellence, organizational effectiveness, administrative service delivery, and strategic initiatives across the firm.
Under minimal supervision, the ideal candidate leads and manages firmwide administrative initiatives, operational improvement projects, organizational change efforts, and special projects. Serves as a key resource to Office Administrators by identifying best practices, facilitating consistency across offices, managing change initiatives, and developing solutions to operational challenges. Acts as a project leader responsible for planning, implementation, communication, stakeholder engagement, and successful project execution.
Responsibilities
Job Requirements & Qualifications:
- Bachelor''s Degree required; advanced degree preferred.
- Minimum of five to seven years of progressively responsible management, operations, project management, or law firm administration experience.
- Experience leading cross-functional projects and organizational change initiatives.
- Ability to influence stakeholders without direct reporting authority.
- Strong business acumen and understanding of professional services operations.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office and project management tools.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities simultaneously.
- Experience working within a law firm or professional services environment strongly preferred.
- Experience in office operations, facilities projects, workforce planning, or administrative service delivery preferred.
- Multi-office experience preferred.
Lewis Brisbois is not accepting search firm submissions for this position.
#LI-HYBRID
#LI-AR1
Minimum Salary
USD $125,000.00/Yr.
Maximum Salary
USD $150,000.00/Yr.
About Company
Our national practice is sophisticated, multi-faceted and well-versed in current legal trends, while our individual state practices provide vast resources and knowledge of procedural and legal nuances. Lewis Brisbois offers legal practice in more than 35 specialties, and a multitude of sub-specialties associated with each practice area. Our attorneys have broad knowledge, expertise, and sensitivity to their clients’ unique needs. Through interaction among its practice groups, Lewis Brisbois provides a wide range of legal services to each client with a continuity of representation over multiple disciplines. We have built longstanding relationships with corporate and institutional clients based on our ability to provide comprehensive service on a national scale.
At Lewis Brisbois, diversity is an integral part of our firm culture and our daily life. We accomplish diversity not by committee or initiative, but through the true and committed practice of hiring the best people for the job and consistently rewarding excellence. The success of these policies is reflected in the fact that Lewis Brisbois has repeatedly received national recognition for its commitment to embracing diversity. Lewis Brisbois is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse group of talented lawyers and staff, and demonstrates that commitment through non-discriminatory hiring, retention and promotion policies. The diversity of the firm’s client base is matched by the diversity of our attorneys.
With offices from Los Angeles to New York, our attorneys reflect the communities in which they live. The firm’s culture has fostered a diverse group of professionals committed to promoting the best interests of our clients, our communities and the legal profession. We are committed to supporting diversity through new and ongoing relationships with minority and women-owned businesses.
Lewis Brisbois is known for its commitment to principled advocacy, an unflinching work ethic, and unyielding recognition of our duty to provide the highest level of service to our clients, who choose us because we take the time to understand their business interests and philosophies. We have developed sophisticated proprietary risk evaluation and litigation management processes that many of our clients have incorporated into their business practices, and we help them manage and defend claims and litigation. As a result, they are avoiding and reducing losses that impact their bottom line.
Our practice includes pre-suit counseling and problem solving based on a structured and accurate analysis of likely outcome. We know our clients’ objectives are often best served by a pre-suit resolution, and we are often judged by the advice and counsel we provide toward that end. However, when trial is the answer and in the client’s best interest, no law firm in this country understands and better executes a trial strategy than Lewis Brisbois. We are truly client driven and result oriented.