Job Description: Fidelity Investments is looking to hire a Discovery and Support Services Legal Project Manager (LPM) to play a pivotal role in enhancing our client service delivery, driving operational efficiency, and supporting our legal teams across matters to deliver excellence. This position will be instrumental in managing high-value legal matters, coordinating resources, managing timelines, and ensuring that matters are completed on time and within scope. 

This is a new role that requires someone willing to create, refine, execute, and improve processes.  The LPM needs to be capable of thinking strategically and willing to execute precisely on smaller tasks.

The Purpose of Your Role

• Collaborate with internal and external legal teams and third-party vendors to clarify objectives, establish budgets, and identify deliverables.

• Facilitate successful meetings to ensure agenda topics are covered; summarizes decisions, open issues, and action items accurately.

• Continuously monitor matter progress, revising plans as necessary, and ensuring effective communication across teams throughout.

• Develop and maintain a legal calendar and set timelines for matters.

• Streamline workflows to reduce delays and ensure matters progress on schedule.

• Support change management projects by helping to analyze workflows, improve processes and problem solve.

• Assist with implementing standardized processes and systems for better productivity.

• Own the litigation library including performing post-closure matter review to identify opportunities for improvement as well as update the library with documents suitable for use in future matters.

• Assist in evaluating technology needs, implementation of new or updated systems, and training staff to adapt to new workflows.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with 12+ years of experience or master’s degree with 10+ years of experience, preferably in Legal with projects/programs experience.

• Ability to handle high volume workflow while seamlessly performing a spectrum of roles including strategic partner on matters and complex problem solver leading to process and functional improvements.

• The ideal candidate will have a mix of technical and interpersonal skills, including strong:

• Organization

• Communication

• Case management

• Team management

• Process optimization using methodologies like Lean

• Reporting and analytics

• Familiarity with legal technology

• Skilled at leading, directing, monitoring and/or managing the attorney/team’s efforts

• Excellent at relationship building; collaborates well with others

• Ability to identify shifting priorities and adapt while maintaining progress of regularly scheduled work

How Your Work Impacts the Organization

The LPM is a new role that is expected to improve efficiency and coordination across team members as well as maximize the attorneys’ time on matters. Costs will decrease, communication will increase, and repeatable best practices will be built out. All of this will help lead to successful outcomes on matters.