Legal Operations Practice Manager

This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Legal Operations Practice Manager in the United States.

This role sits at the center of a fast-paced Corporate and M&A practice, ensuring seamless execution across high-volume, high-stakes transactional work. You will bring structure, clarity, and operational discipline to complex, multi-party matters, enabling senior legal leadership to operate with full visibility and confidence. The position combines legal operations, project management, and AI-driven workflow innovation to enhance efficiency and reduce friction across deal execution. You will coordinate across attorneys, clients, and external stakeholders while maintaining precise oversight of timelines, dependencies, and deliverables. Acting as the execution backbone of the practice, you will ensure that commitments are tracked, risks are anticipated, and outcomes are delivered reliably. This is a highly strategic and hands-on role in a modern legal environment that values automation, structure, and continuous improvement.

Accountabilities:

Lead end-to-end matter management by maintaining clear visibility over timelines, dependencies, deliverables, and client commitments across all active transactions
Coordinate across attorneys, clients, co-counsel, and external stakeholders to ensure smooth execution of complex, multi-party deals
Support the senior partner with concise, decision-ready summaries, updates, and actionable insights
Identify risks, misalignments, and potential delays early, and proactively resolve them before escalation is required
Drive operational efficiency by redesigning workflows and integrating AI tools to enhance tracking, documentation, and coordination
Oversee pipeline visibility and support follow-through on business development and transactional priorities

Requirements:

Experience in legal operations, practice management, or transactional coordination within a law firm or professional services environment
Strong familiarity with corporate and M&A workflows; legal training or J.D. is highly preferred
Demonstrated experience using or building AI-driven workflows in a professional setting
Strong systems thinking with the ability to introduce structure without unnecessary complexity
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills in high-pressure environments
Full professional fluency in English
Ability to operate independently in a fast-paced, remote, Eastern Time-aligned environment

Benefits:

Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for eligible employees
401(k) retirement savings plan
100% remote work environment
Exposure to high-impact, complex corporate and M&A transactions
Opportunity to work at the intersection of law, operations, and AI-driven innovation
Collaborative and flexible work culture.

How Jobgether works:

We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.

We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!

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