Practice Specialist

Hogan Lovells is seeking a highly skilled Practice Specialist to join our Mergers & Acquisitions practice. This role is ideal for a professional who brings exceptional attention to detail, strong judgment, and outstanding communication skills, along with the ability to manage highly confidential and sensitive matters with discretion and professionalism.

The Practice Specialist will serve as a key point of contact, interfacing regularly with internal stakeholders and external contacts, and helping to ensure seamless coordination across priorities. The ideal candidate is personable, enthusiastic, proactive, and creative, with a collaborative mindset and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.

This position is well-suited for a motivated professional looking to grow within a sophisticated legal practice, take on meaningful responsibility, and become a valued contributor to the continued success of the team.

The PRACTICE SPECIALIST supports Partners, Practice Leaders, and Business Managers, in specific practices within our firm. The Practice Specialist executes a variety of administrative and legal tasks, which include providing a superior level of executive service while consistently producing an exceptional work product.

The Practice Specialist is expected to maintain an advanced knowledge of the practice areas/groups and clients of the firm to ensure extraordinary client satisfaction. The Practice Specialist is required to preserve confidentiality regarding extremely sensitive matters and materials related to the firm.

The job description sets forth the core framework of responsibilities of this position as outlined:

PRACTICE GROUP SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy and Business Planning

• Assist Practice Leadership with development of practice specific initiatives to achieve the strategic goals of the firm.

Marketing & Business Development

• Assist Practice Leadership in raising our internal and external profile brand. Engage with M&BD to track practice developments; raise awareness and understanding of key market trends; and develop practice policies consistent with the strategic goals of the practice.

Communications

• Compose weekly communications, including practice specific office events and highlights, periodic newsletters, Intranet postings, news items, and pertinent information to raise internal practice awareness.

Practice GROUP Leadership meetings/events

• Assist Practice Leadership with planning, hosting meetings, events, and conferences.

Other

• Consistent visibility at all Practice events, D.C. Office events, available for Practice Group events. Responsible Business initiatives and opportunities; and attend Practice meetings.

PRACTICE SPECIALIST ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES

LEGAL SUPPORT

• The Practice Specialist is expected to provide exceptional support in document preparation specific to practice requirements.
• Prepare practice specific documents.
• Prepare annual and/or supplemental audit letter responses, memorandums, correspondence, pleadings, and document binders.
• Assume responsibility for preserving the highest level of confidentiality of all firm and client information, records, and files, both within and outside of the firm.

SCHEDULING

• Schedules and maintains calendars, contact information and other pertinent information as requested and within the contact database. Answers telephone and accurately takes and relays messages, coordinates scheduling of video conferencing and conference calls.
• Schedules practice meetings and coordinates all arrangements for such meetings (video conference/audio conferencing, meeting rooms, and catering requests, etc.).

TRAVEL and EXPENSES

• Coordinates travel arrangements through in-house Travel Department and prepares timekeepers’ expense reports in a timely manner. Arranges for payment of vendor invoices or checks to be drawn and charged to appropriate client/matter numbers.

TIME RECORDING

• Records, reviews, edits, and closes time entries through the web-based time entry program using Firm standards.

ADMINISTRATIVE ENGAGEMENT

• Responds to incoming requests in a professional manner. Interacts effectively and courteously, in person, by telephone, and in writing with attorneys, supervisors and business team professionals.
• Coordinates events, conferences, meetings, facilitate events and attend department assemblies upon requests.
• Perform Ad-hoc projects as assigned.

CLIENT RELATIONS

• Client interfacing and engagement on behalf of fee-earners.
• Generate client conflict inquiries, open new matters and prepare engagement letters.
• Respond to customer/client requests in a skilled and timely manner.
• Respond to internal client requests effectively and courteously, in person, by telephone and written communication to attorneys and business team professionals.

DOCUMENT PRODUCTION

• Following the established document processing methods and procedures of the firm, creates, edits, spell checks, and proofreads work product to ensure accuracy. Prepares a variety of forms and creates new documents…