Courtney H.Smith
Senior Legal Project Manager
Lean Solutions
cosmith@seyfarth.com
"I help ensure the work gets done in a way that works for our attorneys and our clients."
More About Courtney
Clients look for project management to help support the work of attorney teams across all of Seyfarth's practice groups. When there is a large or complicated scope of work, Courtney helps keep things organized and on track, and helps facilitate direct lines of communication between client and internal teams. She ensures that new engagements start out on the right foot with the right processes in place. For existing engagements, Courtney helps find process improvements to better deliver for her clients.
Courtney applies principles of project management to the legal world to keep legal projects of all sizes on track. This allows attorneys to focus more energy and effort on substantive legal work—and keeps clients involved an informed.
Courtney's project management experience has covered diverse subject areas, including mergers and acquisitions, employee benefits, litigation, and regulatory compliance, and a broad range of industries. This gives her the necessary flexibility to address the individual needs of a client on each specific engagement, whether it's dynamic reporting, coordination of co-located teams, or introduction of time-saving tools and processes.
"I'm focused on the user experience—eliminating pain points for internal teams and keeping the execution of legal work client-focused."
Courtney loves that, if she's doing her job right, she's making everyone else's job easier. She values that she is helping clients, as well as helping Seyfarth attorneys to serve clients with greater efficiency and impact.
Courtney applies principles of project management to the legal world to keep legal projects of all sizes on track. This allows attorneys to focus more energy and effort on substantive legal work—and keeps clients involved an informed.
Courtney's project management experience has covered diverse subject areas, including mergers and acquisitions, employee benefits, litigation, and regulatory compliance, and a broad range of industries. This gives her the necessary flexibility to address the individual needs of a client on each specific engagement, whether it's dynamic reporting, coordination of co-located teams, or introduction of time-saving tools and processes.
"I'm focused on the user experience—eliminating pain points for internal teams and keeping the execution of legal work client-focused."
Courtney loves that, if she's doing her job right, she's making everyone else's job easier. She values that she is helping clients, as well as helping Seyfarth attorneys to serve clients with greater efficiency and impact.
- LLM, The John Marshall Law School
Taxation - JD, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
- BA, University of Notre Dame
Economics
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"I help ensure the work gets done in a way that works for our attorneys and our clients."
More About Courtney
Clients look for project management to help support the work of attorney teams across all of Seyfarth's practice groups. When there is a large or complicated scope of work, Courtney helps keep things organized and on track, and helps facilitate direct lines of communication between client and internal teams. She ensures that new engagements start out on the right foot with the right processes in place. For existing engagements, Courtney helps find process improvements to better deliver for her clients.
Courtney applies principles of project management to the legal world to keep legal projects of all sizes on track. This allows attorneys to focus more energy and effort on substantive legal work—and keeps clients involved an informed.
Courtney's project management experience has covered diverse subject areas, including mergers and acquisitions, employee benefits, litigation, and regulatory compliance, and a broad range of industries. This gives her the necessary flexibility to address the individual needs of a client on each specific engagement, whether it's dynamic reporting, coordination of co-located teams, or introduction of time-saving tools and processes.
"I'm focused on the user experience—eliminating pain points for internal teams and keeping the execution of legal work client-focused."
Courtney loves that, if she's doing her job right, she's making everyone else's job easier. She values that she is helping clients, as well as helping Seyfarth attorneys to serve clients with greater efficiency and impact.
Courtney applies principles of project management to the legal world to keep legal projects of all sizes on track. This allows attorneys to focus more energy and effort on substantive legal work—and keeps clients involved an informed.
Courtney's project management experience has covered diverse subject areas, including mergers and acquisitions, employee benefits, litigation, and regulatory compliance, and a broad range of industries. This gives her the necessary flexibility to address the individual needs of a client on each specific engagement, whether it's dynamic reporting, coordination of co-located teams, or introduction of time-saving tools and processes.
"I'm focused on the user experience—eliminating pain points for internal teams and keeping the execution of legal work client-focused."
Courtney loves that, if she's doing her job right, she's making everyone else's job easier. She values that she is helping clients, as well as helping Seyfarth attorneys to serve clients with greater efficiency and impact.
- LLM, The John Marshall Law School
Taxation - JD, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
- BA, University of Notre Dame
Economics