Regional Office Manager - Connecticut

About the role

Harris Beach Murtha is seeking a Regional Office Manager to provide leadership and operational oversight for our Connecticut offices. This role involves managing professional staff, office operations, attorney practice support, and collaborating with firm administrative departments.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and support 31 Professional Staff (12 LAAs; 5 OAAs; 12 Paralegals and 2 PSCs)
• Lead staff onboarding, training, development, performance management, and offboarding activities
• Review and approve timecards, PTO requests, and expense reports
• Cook up staff meetings, performance evaluations, stay interviews, and team-building initiatives
• Manage daily office operations in partnership with Office Managing Partners and firm leadership
• Coordinate facilities, technology, records, mail services, conference room management, vendors, and office services
• Lead process improvement initiatives and operational efficiency projects
• Develop and monitor office budgets, staffing projections, operational expenses, and office-related financial administration
• Coordinate business continuity planning, emergency preparedness, and office response activities
• Partner with attorneys and practice leaders to ensure effective delivery of legal support services
• Serve as the primary liaison between the office and firm administrative departments, including Human Resources, Finance, IT, Business Development, Records, Real Estate Management, and Professional Development
• Afford assistance with recruiting, onboarding, employee relations, training, office improvements, and vendor management initiatives
• Participate in firmwide committees, management meetings, and strategic projects
• Assist with other duties and special projects as needed

Requirements

• A college degree or equivalent combination of education and experience preferred
• 3+ years of business management and supervisory experience
• Experience managing office operations within a professional services environment; law firm experience preferred
• Strong leadership, problem-solving, planning, and decision-making abilities
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
• Strong organizational, analytical, and time management skills
• The ability to develop positive working relationships with attorneys, clients, staff, and colleagues
• Experience managing multiple priorities while exercising sound judgment and maintaining confidentiality
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office applications

Qualifications

• Drive and desire to supervise and support 31 Professional Staff
• Drive and desire to lead staff onboarding, training, development, performance management, and offboarding activities
• Drive and desire to review and approve timecards, PTO requests, and expense reports
• Drive and desire to coordinate staff meetings, performance evaluations, stay interviews, and team-building initiatives
• Drive and desire to manage daily office operations in partnership with Office Managing Partners and firm leadership
• Drive and desire to coordinate facilities, technology, records, mail services, conference room management, vendors, and office services
• Drive and desire to lead process improvement initiatives and operational efficiency projects
• Drive and desire to develop and monitor office budgets, staffing projections, operational expenses, and office-related financial administration
• Drive and desire to coordinate business continuity planning, emergency preparedness, and office response activities
• Drive and desire to partner with attorneys and practice leaders to ensure effective delivery of legal support services
• Drive and desire to serve as the primary liaison between the office and firm administrative departments, including Human Resources, Finance, IT, Business Development, Records, Real Estate Management, and Professional Development
• Drive and desire to afford assistance with recruiting, onboarding, employee relations, training, office improvements, and vendor management initiatives
• Drive and desire to participate in firmwide committees, management meetings, and strategic projects
• Drive and desire to assist with other duties and special projects as needed

Skills

• Strong leadership, problem-solving, planning, and decision-making abilities
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
• Strong organizational, analytical, and time management skills
• The ability to develop positive working relationships with attorneys, clients, staff, and colleagues
• Experience managing multiple priorities while exercising sound judgment and maintaining confidentiality
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office applications

Benefits

Salary information will vary depending upon relevant experience for the position, geographic locations and weekly hours schedule. The anticipated weekly schedule for the Regional Office Manager is 40 hours per week.

Pay

Salary information will vary depending upon relevant experience for the position, geographic locations and weekly hours schedule. The anticipated weekly schedule for the Regional Office Manager is 40 hours per week.

Schedule

The anticipated weekly schedule for the Regional Office Manager is 40 hours per week.

Company Information

Harris Beach Murtha is an Equal Opportunity Employer. About Harris Beach Murtha: Harris Beach Murtha formed in 2025 via the combination of Harris Beach PLLC and Murtha Cullina LLP. A forward-thinking and innovative partnership with the benefit of more than 250 years of combined history, Harris Beach Murtha’s New York roots reach back to 1856 and the firm has had ties to New England since 1936. Harris Beach and Murtha Cullina were separately among the country’s top law firms as ranked by The National Law Journal. Harris Beach Murtha and its subsidiaries have a strong Northeast presence, but a global reach. Clients include Fortune 100 corporations, privately held companies, emerging businesses, public sector entities, tax-exempt organizations and individuals. The firm’s practice areas and industries served span appellate law, business litigation, commercial real estate, construction, corporate, environmental, energy, financial institutions, financial restructuring, government compliance and investigations, health care, immigration, intellectual property, labor and employment, mass torts, medical and life sciences, political law, product liability, public finance, tax, and trusts and estates. The firm’s lawyers and consultants practice from offices throughout Connecticut in Bantam, Hartford, New Haven and Stamford; New York state in Albany, Buffalo, Ithaca, New York City, Rochester, Saratoga Springs, Syracuse, Long Island and White Plains, as well as in Boston, Massachusetts and Newark, New Jersey. The firm’s policy prohibiting unlawful discrimination applies to all aspects of employment, including hiring, placement, assignment of duties, training, promotion, compensation & benefits and termination. It is the policy of Harris Beach Murtha Cullina PLLC that all applicants and employees enjoy a positive, respectful and productive work environment, free from behavior, actions or language constituting unlawful harassment. Accordingly, harassment or discrimination of any kind based on an individual’s race or color, sex, age, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, military status, genetic predisposition, carrier status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, creed, domestic violence victim status or any other legally protected status is strictly prohibited. Harris Beach Murtha complies with the provisions of the Human Rights Law, all other State and Federal statutory and constitutional non-discrimination provisions including non-discrimination on the basis of prior criminal conviction and prior arrest.