Are you a creative, high-energy, practice management professional who thrives in professional services environments? Do you love working with smart, dynamic, collaborative teams? This may be the opportunity for you!

Orrick currently has an excellent opportunity for a Practice Manager for our Energy & Infrastructure practice group who is ready to be challenged and build a career within an AmLaw Top 100 law firm. This position could be based in any of our U.S. offices (Austin; Boston; Houston; Los Angeles; New York; Menlo Park; Orange County, Portland, Sacramento; San Francisco; Santa Monica, Seattle, Washington DC or Wheeling, WV). 

What Will You Do?  As a practice management professional, you will work closely with firm leadership and other business professionals to accomplish the strategic, financial, talent, and operational objectives of our Energy & Infrastructure practices and to support the Firm’s shared client service, collaboration, and innovation goals.  The Practice Manager will collaborate with the Chief Practice Officer, Business Unit Leader, and global talent, finance and operations leads to ensure operational excellence in managing utilization, addressing resource demands, adhering to financial management best practices, and enhancing profitability in their assigned practice groups.  The successful Practice Manager will apply an in-depth understanding of the client service needs, staffing requirements, pricing arrangements, deal and inventory life cycles, and key financial metrics to making sound judgements and minimizing the administrative burden on practice leaders and partners. The Practice Manager will be part of a growing practice management team within our firm.

Your Essential Position Responsibilities:

Staffing and Utilization

• Work with business unit leaders and partners in charge of staffing to manage the work allocation process for associates in the group.
• Monitor workloads and professional development of associates and help allocate new matters in a manner which ensures an equitable distribution of assignments consistent with the clients’ needs and the attorneys’ individual professional development goals.
• Track, aggregate and analyze associate metrics, including availability information and utilization rates.  Partner with business unit leaders and associates to ensure that individual goals relating to productivity are achieved and practice group productivity is maintained.
• Coordinate with business unit leaders and other supervising partners to identify staffing needs and hiring targets; partner with the Talent and Finance teams to ensure hiring efforts are supporting the goals and needs of the group and supporting firm profitability targets.
• Meet regularly with business unit leaders to identify associates who may be having specific challenges so that appropriate mentoring, training, and other actions can be taken to address specific circumstances in a timely manner.  
• Coordinate with legal recruiting and practice partners to facilitate efficient associate recruiting.
• Collaborate with the innovation team to assign the right resource to the right task including leveraging career associates, Service Center, Williams Lea, automation, paralegals, CaseStream and Orrick Analytics to maximize impact on client matters.
• Leverage temporary associate staffing providers and lower-cost locations for hiring needs.

 Practice Administration

• Initiate ideas for improving profitability of matters, including the efficient allocation of internal resources and staff across client matters & group initiatives.
• Collaborate with CPO to provide review and approval of a matter opening requests, fee alerts, non-billable travel, write offs and similar administrative tasks.
• Research, compile data and perform business and financial analysis related to PG strategic initiatives.
• Assist in oversight of partners’ billing and collection practices throughout the year and in connection with the year-end and periodic billing/collections pushes.
• Provide ad hoc financial analysis (profitability, billing, collections, time entry, utilization, etc.), and collaborate with the Business Operations team on reporting requests.
• Coordinate with records team and relevant timekeepers to facilitate client file transfers and partner exit procedures.
• Collaborate with and support business unit leaders on practice group communications.

Your Qualifications:

• Strong preference for an individual who has prior experience with a large law firm, corporate legal department or other similar service industry.  Significant experience working in Energy & Infrastructure areas preferred. 
• Excellent project management, prioritization, attention to detail and organizational skills
• Ability to effectively collaborate with teams of partners, associates and other professionals at all levels.
• Ability to work efficiently in a matrix environment, which requires frequent collaboration with cross-department teams and with clients
• Demonstrated ability to exercise sound judgment and decision making.
• Demonstrated ability to be discreet and treat confidential information appropriately.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively use technology, database, presentation, and spreadsheet software at an advanced level.
• Ability to deliver strong customer service, commit to meeting deadlines, and multitask in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Exceptional problem solving and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Excellent computer skills, including Microsoft Office and financial and data information systems.
• J.D. preferred; MBA or equivalent industry experience considered. 

Who is Orrick? Orrick is a global law firm focused on serving the technology & innovation, energy & infrastructure and finance sectors. Founded more than 150 years ago in San Francisco, Orrick today has offices in 25+ markets worldwide. We are recognized worldwide for delivering the highest-quality legal advice through our diverse teams and for our culture of innovation and collaboration.  Financial Times selected Orrick as the Most Digital Firm of 2020, and in the past five years, the Most Innovative Law Firm of the Year three times and runner-up twice. For the seventh year in a row, Fortune named Orrick to its 2022 list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For.  Learn more about our awesome employee experience here: Fortune 100 Great Place To Work certified company*. 

Orrick offers a collaborative work environment, competitive salary, and excellent benefits, from wellness and mindfulness programs to social impact opportunities, professional staff affinity group communities and generous paid time off. 

Please visit www.orrick.com for more information about the firm. 

How to Apply: If you are searching for a chance to create an impact, you have a little grit and you love working with a team, we want to talk with you. To submit your resume and cover letter for this position, please visit our Staff and Paralegal Opportunities Listings at www.orrick.com/Careers. 

No phone calls please. 

What you need to know:  Successful applicants will be required to provide proof of being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to the commencement of employment. Applicants who wish to apply for a medical, religious accommodation or any other accommodation required under applicable law can do so later in the process (accommodations are not guaranteed and are decided on a case by case basis).

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. 

Consistent with the SF Fair Chance Ordinance, an arrest and conviction record will not automatically disqualify a qualified applicant from consideration.

Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for the position in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.

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