Jobs at Alston & Bird

Leads business development strategy for Finance and Investment Funds practices, advising attorneys and practice leaders on client targeting, pursuits, cross-selling, market positioning, and revenue growth. Uses market and competitive intelligence to guide initiatives, manages pitches, proposals, rankings, events, budgets, and thought leadership, and tracks outcomes. Supports lateral partner integration and supervises BD team members while strengthening client relationships and firm visibility.

Manages attorney recruitment and hiring for the Washington, DC and Chicago offices, including entry-level, lateral, policy advisor, law student, and summer associate programs. Partners with firm leadership and hiring committees, oversees recruiting vendors and relationships, manages budgets and staff, supports diversity initiatives, coordinates on-campus engagement, and contributes to firmwide projects. The role requires regular travel, strong leadership, communication, organization, and knowledge of recruiting technology and legal-market practices.

Designs and produces print and digital communications, branded campaigns, presentations, social media assets, HTML emails, and client-facing materials. Creates visual concepts, infographics, data visualizations, and multimedia using Adobe Creative Cloud and AI-powered tools. Collaborates with attorneys, business development, recruiting, and administrative teams, maintains brand standards and digital assets, prepares production-ready files, and manages multiple creative projects and deadlines.

The Business Development Manager advises litigation practice leaders, develops growth strategies and annual plans, and leads pitches, proposals, and RFP responses. The role manages legal directory submissions, awards, sponsorships, conferences, client events, market research, competitive analysis, and business development resources. It requires strong relationship-building, communication, project management, analytical, and organizational skills, along with experience supporting professional services or legal practice groups.

Coordinates alumni engagement, database maintenance, communications, events, and attorney offboarding. Provides administrative and logistical support for performance review and advancement cycles, including scheduling, document management, progress tracking, record updates, and software troubleshooting. Collaborates across teams, handles confidential personnel information, and supports long-term alumni relationship building.

Designs and delivers technology training for attorneys and staff across firm applications, Microsoft Copilot, collaboration platforms, and legal software. Creates instructor-led, virtual, and eLearning content; administers the LMS; develops technical documentation; supports software rollouts, testing, surveys, and training coordination; and partners with departments to assess needs and build learning programs. Travel to other offices may be required.

Manages client account portfolios, monitors invoice and e-billing status, resolves disputes and payment discrepancies, and supports timely collections. Communicates with clients, attorneys, billers, and Finance teams; analyzes aging and payment trends; documents collection activity; prioritizes risks; and maintains professional client relationships while meeting collection objectives.

Provides administrative support to attorneys and legal administrative assistants, including expense processing, time entry, travel coordination, conference room scheduling, correspondence formatting, shipping, mailing projects, phone coverage, confidential mail handling, document organization, database entry, and file maintenance. Requires strong organizational, communication, technology, and prioritization skills, along with familiarity with office procedures and AI productivity tools.

The Legal Support Assistant will provide administrative support, manage office tasks, and assist in delivering high customer service. Candidates should demonstrate flexibility and strong organizational skills.

Coordinate and manage client invoicing and electronic billing across multiple e-billing platforms. Revise prebills, post approved changes, generate and audit invoices, configure e-billing profiles, monitor AR/unbilled time, respond to reporting requests, and collaborate with attorneys and finance teams to ensure billing compliance and timely collection.

Supports attorneys on complex corporate and finance transactions, including asset purchase, structured finance, secured lending, and securitization matters. Responsibilities include transaction management, due diligence, legal document preparation, closing coordination, UCC filings, regulatory research, deadline tracking, record maintenance, proofreading, quality control, and post-closing support. The role also involves coordinating with clients, vendors, and stakeholders while managing confidential information and meeting demanding transaction deadlines.

Provides administrative support to attorneys and legal administrative staff, including expense processing, time entry, travel coordination, meeting arrangements, correspondence formatting, shipping, mailing projects, phone coverage, confidential mail handling, file organization, and document production. The role requires strong organization, attention to detail, communication, customer service, flexibility, and proficiency with Microsoft Office software.

Provide high-level administrative, operational, and analytical support to attorneys and practice groups: prepare and reconcile client/matter reports, manage time and expense entries, coordinate travel and meetings, handle document production and records management, and support business development and client-service initiatives while maintaining confidentiality and improving processes.

Provide transactional securities paralegal support for investment funds: prepare and file SEC and state filings (Form IDs, Form Ds, Form NF, Section 16s), conduct blue sky research, manage EDGAR Next/NASAA submissions, liaise with regulators, assist with entity formation, proofread documents, track filings and deadlines, and provide backup support across the Investment Funds team. Requires overtime as needed.

The Senior Client Accounts Specialist manages client accounts, ensuring timely payments and resolving billing disputes in a collaborative environment with attorneys and clients.

Provide administrative support to law firm teams including document production, file maintenance and organization, database entry, and general office tasks. Deliver high customer service, prioritize work, handle shifting workloads, and occasionally extend hours as needed.

Provide support during FDA inspections, ensure CGMP compliance, prepare clients for inspections, and manage related quality system issues.