Legal Advisory Manager

🕒 March 9

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🧑‍⚖️ General Counsel

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PERSUIT

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51 - 200 employees

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

SaaS • Enterprise • Legal Tech

PERSUIT is a company that empowers legal leaders to make data-driven decisions for working with external legal counsel. They focus on helping large corporations select the right law firms and manage relationships with outside counsel through a transparent and repeatable process. Their platform offers features such as alternative fee arrangements, value-based pricing, market intelligence, and AI-driven solutions to enhance legal sourcing and operations. By utilizing PERSUIT, companies can reduce costs and improve efficiencies in managing their legal needs.

📋 Description

• Lead complex outside counsel management engagements across corporate legal departments. • Serve as a senior trusted advisor to executive stakeholders, including General Counsel, Heads of Legal Operations, and Procurement leaders. • Provide end-to-end advisory across matter intake, panel design, strategic sourcing, fee structuring, legal project management, e-billing, invoice review, and spend governance. • Translate data and operational insights into strategic recommendations that improve cost control, performance management, and program maturity. • Lead project execution alongside Consultants and Analysts, ensuring high-quality, on-time delivery. • Provide mentorship, coaching, and structured feedback to junior team members. • Oversee workstreams, manage timelines, and ensure consistency in advisory methodology and outputs. • Develop and refine standardized frameworks, playbooks, templates, and methodologies for outside counsel management. • Codify repeatable advisory approaches across intake, matter management, LPM, panel governance, and e-billing. • Contribute to evolving PERSUIT’s advisory model and internal knowledge base. • Lead sophisticated spend analyses and diagnostic assessments to uncover trends, risks, and optimization opportunities. • Guide consultants and analysts in advanced data interpretation and storytelling. • Ensure advisory recommendations are grounded in measurable financial and operational impact. • Contribute to webinars, reports, and industry events. • Represent LAT in client and prospect engagements. • Help position PERSUIT as a market leader in outside counsel management strategy and innovation. • Partner closely with Client Experience, Sales, Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Data teams to ensure alignment between market needs and product evolution. • Provide structured client feedback to influence roadmap and go-to-market strategies.

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 8–10 years of relevant experience. • Significant client-facing consulting or in-house legal operations leadership experience. • Demonstrated experience leading complex projects and managing stakeholders at senior executive levels. • Deep, practical experience in outside counsel management across the full lifecycle, including: • Matter intake and governance • Matter management systems • Legal project management (LPM) • Alternative fee arrangements • Strategic sourcing and panel management • E-billing implementation and invoice review processes • Experience within corporate legal departments, legal operations, consulting, or law firm pricing/operations functions. • Advanced data literacy with the ability to independently manipulate, analyze, and interpret large data sets. • Experience translating financial and operational data into executive-level recommendations. • Comfort with Excel and analytical tools; familiarity with e-billing or matter management platforms is strongly preferred. • Bachelor’s degree required. • JD or equivalent legal qualification preferred but not required. • Executive Presence: Confident advising senior stakeholders and influencing strategic decisions. • Strategic Operator: Able to zoom out to define vision while also diving into operational details and analysis. • Builder Mindset: Passionate about developing frameworks, playbooks, and scalable advisory infrastructure. • Collaborative Leader: Effective at mentoring junior team members and working cross-functionally. • Data-Driven: Uses structured analysis to guide recommendations and decision-making. • Adaptable: Thrives in dynamic environments and embraces ambiguity. • Industry Curious: Passionate about legal operations, legal technology, and shaping the future of outside counsel management.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision) • Retirement Plan (401k, IRA) • Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays) • Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity) • Training & Development • Wellness Resources