Lawyers on Demand, a Consilio Company, is urgently seeking a contract eBilling and Legal Spend Manager to support one of our prestigious corporate clients.
Start: ASAP
Duration: through December 31st, 2026 (potential to extend)
Pay Rate: negotiable, likely starting around $50/hour
Location: Remote in the United States
Candidates must be able to start immediately if offer accepted.
Responsibilities & Duties:
- Work closely with the Sr. Manager, Outside Counsel Spend & Strategy to enhance and oversee the Outside Counsel spend and management program for Legal.
- Ensure operational excellence and an AI-native approach to all processes related to legal e-billing and OC management, and perform day-to-day tasks regarding the same.
- Assist in implementing our OC spend strategy, including reviewing and benchmarking law fi rm billing rates and fee structures against industry standards and peer companies.
- Administer and maintain legal e-billing system, law fi rm billing guidelines, law fi rm engagement letter review, and conflicts of interest.
- Manage and enhance processes related to legal vendor/contractor onboarding.
- Provide training and support to Legal on all aspects of OC oversight and billing-related processes and systems. Respond to routine inquiries from OC.
- Own and drive the monthly accruals process for Legal, including coordinating inputs, ensuring accuracy and timeliness, and serving as the primary day-to-day relationship manager with FP&A.
- Develop strong, positive relationships with cross-functional partners (FP&A, Sourcing, EAA) to enhance program effectiveness.
Required Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree with at least 3 years of OC management experience at an in-house legal practice – preferably at a high growth technology company.
- Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.
- Passion for all things operations related, with the ability to develop, implement, and enhance programs and processes.
- Proven experience in project managing small and large-scale projects from inception to execution.
- Demonstrated experience managing legal accruals, forecasting inputs, and month-end financial processes in close partnership with FP&A.
- Strong proficiency in Excel and/or Google Sheets, including formulas, data manipulation, reconciliation, and building practical trackers and analyses.
- Law firm management and legal e-billing experience
- Strong written and oral communication skills. Ruthless attention to detail. Extremely well organized.
- Ability to execute under pressure and within tight timelines while juggling multiple projects.
- Willingness to roll up sleeves (no job too big, no job too small).
- Familiarity with Brightflag or other comparable legal e-billing system.
- Experience with databases (e.g. Snowflake), SQL querying, and dashboard building tools (Looker, etc.)
- Proficiency with Zip, Ironclad, Ivo, Asana, Confluence, DocuSign, Google Workspace, Jira, Lucidchart, Office 365, and Slack
LOD is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Diversity and inclusion is a core part of our Ways of Working, and we celebrate and embrace it. We know the individual differences of our people make us collectively better and we encourage all applicants; including people with disability, career breaks, gender diverse, LGBTQIA, and culturally diverse communities to join us so we can do great things together.
Company Description
Lawyers on Demand, a Consilio company, is a global leader in legal staffing, eDiscovery, risk management, and legal consulting services. The company supports multinational law firms and corporations by providing identifying and sourcing talented individuals for staffing needs, using innovative software, combining deep legal and regulatory industry expertise and excellent client service.