Jobs at Alston & Bird

Provides operational support for legal AI products by translating attorney needs into AI-powered workflows, copilots, and agents. Designs, prototypes, tests, deploys, and optimizes solutions for document review, due diligence, contract analysis, and legal research. Supports user adoption through training, documentation, issue tracking, and frontline assistance. Collaborates with attorneys, technical teams, internal departments, and AI vendors while ensuring privacy, ethical, and firm-policy compliance.

Administers employee leave, disability, accommodation, workers’ compensation, and related benefits programs from case initiation through return to work. Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local laws; manages documentation, deadlines, records, vendors, and employee communications. Supports benefit transactions, audits, open enrollment, reporting, policy improvements, and HR initiatives while maintaining confidentiality and coordinating with employees, managers, HR, Payroll, Benefits, Finance, and third-party administrators.

Supports end-to-end recruiting for professional staff positions, including candidate sourcing, interview scheduling, phone screening, background and reference checks, interviews, new-hire paperwork, onboarding, and recruiting metrics. Coordinates with hiring leaders, candidates, and the Talent Acquisition team while maintaining confidentiality, accurate records, and high-quality service in a fast-paced environment.

Provides administrative and operational support for domestic and international patent prosecution matters. Responsibilities include preparing and filing patent documents through USPTO Patent Center, managing correspondence and records, coordinating inventor and client documentation, monitoring deadlines, preparing reports, supporting billing, and maintaining matter files. Requires strong knowledge of U.S. patent prosecution procedures, docketing systems, organization, communication, and attention to detail.

The Human Resources Manager supports attorneys and staff across employee relations, performance management, HR operations, compliance, onboarding, talent acquisition, professional development, and engagement programs. The role partners with business leaders and HR teams, manages evaluations and workflows, maintains employment records, supports HRIS and payroll processes, oversees an office budget, and ensures a high-quality employee experience.

Administer and optimize the Firm’s Workday platform and related HR systems. Maintain workforce data integrity, security, reporting, dashboards, integrations, and business processes. Analyze workforce trends and deliver actionable insights while supporting audits, testing, upgrades, implementations, governance, and process improvements. Partner with HR, IT, Finance, Payroll, vendors, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into effective HRIS solutions, troubleshoot issues, provide training, and manage related projects and workstreams.

Supports patent attorneys by preparing and filing USPTO documents, maintaining dockets and client files, monitoring deadlines, managing correspondence and portals, entering time, coordinating travel, processing expenses, and assisting with case and project management. Requires strong administrative, proofreading, organizational, communication, and e-filing skills, along with proficiency in Microsoft Office and knowledge of patent prosecution procedures.

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.

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.

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.

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

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