Corporate Paralegal Manager

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The Manager of Corporate Paralegals is responsible for leading the day-to-day operations of the Corporate Paralegal team across the firm, ensuring consistent delivery of high-quality support to Business Law practices. This role drives operational efficiency and best practices while overseeing team performance and professional development. Success in this role requires a collaborative and adaptable leader with high emotional intelligence, sound judgment, and the ability to work independently with strong personal initiative. The Manager must demonstrate excellent organizational, analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills. This position reports to the Director of Paralegals and works closely with Practice Group Leadership.

Lead and manage paralegals to ensure delivery of excellent services to stakeholders and clients.
• Serve as a liaison between attorneys and paralegals as well as paralegal staff and department leadership and other administrative departments.
• Collaborate with Department, Practice Group leadership to maximize paralegal utilization and profitability, including structuring workflows and best practices and procedures.
• Monitor adherence of Firm policies, legal standards, time entry compliance, overtime, and ethical guidelines while promoting consistency and fairness.
• Assist with the recruitment and retention of paralegals as well as performance management process.
• Identify staffing needs and collaborate with Department, Practice Group Leadership and attorneys to ensure that paralegal resources are utilized most efficiently to support client workflow.
• Identify inefficiencies and contribute to the implementation of improvements that enhance operational efficiency.
• Participate in the onboarding of new hires, introducing them to Foley & Lardner’s culture, systems, and workflows.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships across leadership, stakeholders and paraprofessional staff.
• Foster a culture of accountability, efficiency, and client-centered service excellence within the team.
• Provide consistent feedback to paralegals as part of their ongoing development.
• Design, develop and implement paralegal training programs and educate attorneys on effective utilization of paralegals.
• Assess opportunities to integrate automation and AI tools to optimize paralegal workflows.

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience as a Paralegal and people management or supervisory experience of a Corporate practice required; national law firm experience preferred.#LI-Hybrid

In support of transparency and equity in the workplace, Foley provides salary ranges for all positions. The figures below represent the full compensation range of this position. The actual offered amount will be between the range minimum and midpoint based on the following factors: education, experience, geographic market, and internal pay equity at Foley. We are accepting ongoing applications.

Madison, Miami, Milwaukee, and Tampa – $130,900 to $196,400
Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, and San Diego – $144,000 to $216,000
Los Angeles – $150,500 to $225,900

Boston and Washington D.C. – $157,100 to $235,700

Foley & Lardner LLP will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with California’s Fair Chance Act.