Jobs at BakerHostetler

Champion legal technology and process-improvement initiatives across practice areas and client organizations. Responsibilities include understanding legal workflows, recommending technology or process solutions, managing requirements and implementations, supporting document automation and robotic process automation use cases, leading agile projects, evaluating legal technology tools, translating business needs for developers, and advising clients on digital and compliance strategies.

Oversee daily operations and financial activities for the Los Angeles and San Francisco law offices. Manage administrative teams, budgets, accounting, human resources, facilities, vendors, security, office procedures, strategic planning, and events. Serve as a liaison between offices, firmwide departments, building management, attorneys, and staff while coordinating complex initiatives and ensuring efficient, professional office operations.

Designs, implements, supports, monitors, and troubleshoots LAN/WAN infrastructure, servers, network security, telephony, remote access, and backup systems. Provides Tier 3 support across more than 1,800 users and 18 locations, maintains infrastructure standards and documentation, supports service-level commitments, evaluates upgrades, oversees network specialists, coordinates with vendors, and diagnoses complex hardware, software, and end-user issues.

Supports litigation attorneys throughout case inception, discovery, trial preparation, post-trial activities, mediations, and arbitrations. Responsibilities include drafting and filing legal documents, managing case files and eDiscovery, conducting research and investigations, reviewing records, preparing deposition summaries and trial materials, coordinating with clients and legal professionals, monitoring deadlines, and maintaining calendars. The role requires strong knowledge of court procedures, litigation technology, document management, organization, communication, and confidentiality.

Supports marketing and business development initiatives for a law firm’s advertising, marketing, and digital media team. Responsibilities include developing collateral and pitches, coordinating events and webinars, preparing rankings submissions, managing sponsorships, onboarding attorneys, supporting RFPs and proposals, and assisting client and industry marketing programs. The role requires strong writing, editing, organization, communication, multitasking, and stakeholder-management skills, along with proficiency in Microsoft Office and related marketing and CRM platforms.

Design, develop, and maintain enterprise data solutions and pipelines using Azure data platform and Microsoft Fabric. Support data modeling, master data management, medallion architecture, data quality, and integrations to produce trusted, scalable data for analytics and BI.

Support US patent prosecution from pre-filing through grant: prepare and file USPTO documents, monitor and clear dockets, process USPTO correspondence, prepare status reports, maintain electronic and paper files, coordinate with attorneys and clients, update client IP systems, and record billable time.

Perform conflicts-of-interest reviews for lateral attorney hires and new hires: research prior client/matter relationships, run conflicts searches, prepare reports, coordinate onboarding and matter openings, and work with Recruiting, HR, and attorneys to resolve conflicts and maintain accurate intake records while protecting confidential information.

Manage full-cycle attorney recruiting for Chicago and Denver offices, including partner, lateral, entry-level, and summer associate hiring. Build recruiting strategies, manage search firm relationships, oversee hiring committee processes, run the summer associate program, coordinate law school outreach and recruiting events, maintain recruiting operations and reporting, and support recruiting marketing and mentoring initiatives.

Provide full lifecycle trademark and copyright prosecution support: prepare and file US and international trademark/copyright applications and responses, maintain IP docketing and document management, communicate with clients and foreign agents, conduct searches, prepare reports, capture billable time, and support TTAB proceedings and related filings.

Manage and execute marketing programs for litigation practice teams: coordinate team meetings, handle RFPs and proposal prep, maintain website and collateral, plan client events, support PR/communications and lateral integration, track practice activity, conduct competitive research, and assist group leadership on business development initiatives.

Manage trademark and copyright docketing for U.S. and international matters using FoundationIP and PracticeLink; monitor deadlines, docket new matters and correspondence, maintain data integrity, coordinate with attorneys/paralegals, identify process improvements, and support reporting and client service.

The role involves overseeing lateral attorney hiring, implementing recruitment strategies, managing relationships with search firms, and ensuring a seamless interview process for candidates.

Work with attorneys, inventors, and clients to identify patentable inventions, draft patent applications and claims, prepare technical illustrations, review prior art, assist with prosecution and examiner interactions, and analyze competitor IP to support portfolio management.

Support corporate, healthcare, and real estate attorneys by preparing formation and transactional documents, coordinating filings, conducting due diligence and UCC searches, maintaining corporate records, assisting with closings, and managing corporate maintenance and administrative tasks in a high-volume practice.