Senior Associate, Legal Business Services

Overview

Senior Associate, Legal Business Services at KPMG US. This role is part of the US Legal Business Services (LBS) practice and involves working with other KPMG service teams, including KPMG Law US and foreign member firm legal practices. The team supports high-profile clients through legal department and law firm engagements across LBS service lines, including Legal Managed Services, Legal Operations Consulting, and Legal Technology Innovation. The position offers formal training, mentoring, and opportunities to develop through multifaceted engagements within a collaborative culture.

Responsibilities

• Help execute on LBS engagements for legal department and law firm clients across LBS service lines: Legal Managed Services, Legal Operations Consulting, and Legal Technology Innovation; manage services engagements for legal departments; perform strategic assessments for legal teams; optimize, select, and implement legal technology including CLM and Gen AI applications for legal teams; monitor organizational/target operating model design initiatives; support legal/business process improvements; governance models; legal metrics and data; strategic modeling and impact analysis; legal resourcing strategies.
• Provide input into engagement decisions regarding work plans and timelines, project management, resource allocation, and career development of staff members.
• Advise on best practice recommendations to leadership for integrating process improvement and change management activities.
• Develop and analyze metrics, performance measurements, requirements, reports and recommendations related to management, organizational structure, and policies/procedures.
• Design, develop, manage, and document processes and project plans in a complex, dynamic environment, adapting to changing client requirements.
• Support the selection, implementation and execution of legal technologies including Enterprise Legal Management, Contract Lifecycle Management, eBilling, and Matter Management.

Qualifications

• Minimum three years of recent experience in legal business consulting, legal technology innovation, and/or legal managed services; experience could include work in a consulting/advisory firm on behalf of legal teams; experience in the legal technology field or in a legal department, law firm, or related roles.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university.
• Understanding of business transformation, functional processes, financial management, technology, resourcing, performance management, and change management related to corporate legal departments and law firms.
• Experience identifying potential business and operations risks in areas such as legal department performance, internal control/risk assessment, transformation and change management processes; experience in business analysis, needs assessments, requirement analysis/definition, and cost-benefit analysis.
• Ability to work in and support a team environment.
• Ability to travel up to 50%.
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future; no sponsorship is available for this opportunity.

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Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• General Business

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