Legal Review Project Manager

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Legal Review Project Manager to join our team in a secondee capacity, supporting one of our strategic financial services clients. This is a full- time, permanent role based in the United Kingdom, offering the unique opportunity to work on-site with a leading UK financial institution. You will play a pivotal part in delivering legal review and regulatory project management services, ensuring seamless client delivery and fostering long-term collaborative relationships.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the primary point of contact between our organisation and the client's in house legal and litigation teams, ensuring effective communication and delivery of legal review projects.
• Manage the end to end lifecycle of complex legal and regulatory review projects, including planning, execution, monitoring, and reporting.
• Fulfil all contractual obligations under client secondment agreements, ensuring uninterrupted service delivery and compliance with client requirements.
• Collaborate with client stakeholders to identify project needs, define scope, and develop innovative solutions to legal and regulatory challenges.
• Leverage knowledge of client workflows to initiate and facilitate early stage discussions for new matters, positioning the organisation as the preferred provider for further legal services.
• Identify and drive opportunities for revenue growth and account expansion through excellent service delivery and proactive client engagement.
• Champion the adoption of AI driven operational improvements and create reusable assets to enhance project efficiency.
• Maintain meticulous attention to detail, ensuring all project outputs meet the highest standards of quality, accuracy, and compliance.
• Contribute to cross functional collaboration within the organisation, supporting internal teams with insights gained from client facing work.

Key Requirements

• Qualified lawyer or legal professional with substantial experience in legal project management, ideally within the financial services sector.
• Demonstrable track record of successfully managing complex legal and regulatory matters, including litigation, eDiscovery, or compliance projects.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build trust and rapport with client teams.
• Strong analytical, organisational, and problem solving skills, with a proactive approach to identifying and addressing client needs.
• Experience with legal technology, AI driven tools, or process optimisation is highly advantageous.
• Proven ability to work independently and as part of a collaborative team in a fast paced, client facing environment.
• High ethical standards and a commitment to maintaining client confidentiality and privilege at all times.
• Right to work in the UK and willingness to be based on site with the client as required.

About Morae Global

Morae Global is a dynamic, high growth organization that provides an integrated suite of solutions to corporate law departments and law firms, and partners with leading software and services providers, both within and outside the legal industry. We are a young company but are made up of seasoned professionals in the legal industry, with a focus on building productive long term relationships with employees and clients in an environment where collaboration is encouraged, knowledge is shared freely and diversity of thought, cultures, communities, and points of view is embraced. Our team has the vision to create an effective solution for any business problem and the experience to execute on that vision. Our privacy policy can be found here: