Senior Attorney Resource Manager Transactions amp Health

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Senior Attorney Resource Manager, Transactions and Health
The candidate will manage attorney staffing together with the Transaction and Health groups' Practice Group Directors, and Partners-in Charge ensuring that associates and income partners are more fully utilized, while balancing client needs with attorney development goals. Proactively monitor group activity, including individual attorney hours and ongoing client-matter status across offices. Provide attorney staffing recommendations for matter staffing requests based on level of experience and specific skills/expertise required. Balance client needs with the goal of a comparable level of utilization across the practices and opportunities for attorneys to work on a variety of matters and with a variety of partners and achieve progress toward their development goals. Provide a more equitable distribution of assignments through the development and ongoing management of an effective and efficient staffing system which also allows for those partners who may work outside of the system. Analyze and implement improvements to the attorney resources data tracking system tool. Manage the staffing process including promoting adoption of attorney self-reporting of availability. Utilize tools, such as data captured through the availability tracking system, financial reporting, one-on-one discussions of work interests and goals, Foundation experience knowledge management tool, and a database on specific details such as capabilities and partner preferences, to determine available attorney resources. Support time-entry compliance, knowledge of time-off, leaves of absence, departures, and the addition of new attorney hires and assist with workload coverage plans for smooth transitions. Develop in-depth understanding of developmental needs within the Health and Transactions practice groups. Contribute toward attorney satisfaction and retention initiatives and seek to eliminate bias in the assignment of work. Ensure attorneys (with particular focus on diverse attorneys) are receiving opportunities for both interesting and varied work across the practice. Collaborate with Diversity and Inclusion team and Practice Groups as an additional resource for the diverse attorneys with mentorship and visibility. Support professional progression within staffing decisions through knowledge of promotion pipeline. Facilitate information-sharing both within and outside of the Health and Transactions practice groups. Develop trusted relationships with partners to best assess client and partner needs and to ultimately match those needs with resources. Should have a Bachelor's degree. A law degree (JD) and prior experience as a practicing attorney are strongly preferred. Must have 5+ years of experience at a professional services firm. Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word) is required. Knowledge of timekeeping applications and practice group technologies is needed.

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