Jobs at Barnes & Thornburg

Supports information security governance, risk, and compliance activities, including risk assessments, risk-register maintenance, security policies, third-party risk reviews, audit responses, ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 system operations, security awareness training, exceptions tracking, and reporting. The role collaborates with IT, Legal, Procurement, Marketing, and business stakeholders to evaluate technology risks, maintain security controls, and improve governance processes.

Maintains domestic and foreign patent and trademark docket systems, reviews USPTO and foreign correspondence, enters deadlines, updates matter data, prepares reports, monitors loss-of-rights dates, and supports quality review and training. Requires strong knowledge of IP prosecution procedures, terminology, deadlines, and docketing software, with exceptional attention to detail and the ability to manage high-volume work accurately and confidentially.

Provides comprehensive administrative and secretarial support to attorneys, including legal document preparation, calendar and meeting management, client intake, file maintenance, billing assistance, expense reporting, correspondence, and confidential client communications. The role also supports UCC filings, business development, CRM activities, and client-facing scheduling while coordinating multiple priorities in a law office environment.

Provides reception, phone, visitor, conference room, event, mail, supply, scheduling, and basic accounting support in a law office. Maintains front office operations, coordinates building services and deliveries, assists with correspondence, data entry, proofreading, presentations, travel, and meetings, and delivers professional customer service while protecting confidential information.

Processes domestic and international accounts payable, expense reports, vendor documentation, check runs, client disbursements, trust account transactions, and general ledger entries. Reviews approvals, corrects client charges, monitors unapplied costs, and maintains accounting records. Uses accounting software and Excel while communicating with attorneys, staff, vendors, and clients. Handles confidential financial information and performs routine accounting and clerical duties in an office environment.

Associate attorney advising high-net-worth individuals, families, business owners, executives, and fiduciaries on estate planning, trusts, probate, wealth transfer, succession, charitable planning, and related tax matters. Responsibilities include drafting estate documents, supporting trust and estate administration, preparing tax filings, conducting legal research, counseling clients, and collaborating across practice areas. The role is based in Indianapolis and is open to licensed attorneys at all experience levels.

Provides data privacy and AI legal counseling to clients, including drafting privacy policies and data processing agreements, reviewing incident response plans, and assisting with breach response and notifications. Monitors state and federal privacy, AI, and cybersecurity regulations while conducting legal research and writing. The role requires strong interpersonal skills, attention to detail, initiative, CIPP certification, and active admission to a state bar or eligibility to waive in.

Manage multiple IT projects across scope, schedule, quality, and cost. Develop requirements, work plans, reporting, and project documentation; coordinate internal teams and external vendors; facilitate meetings and decisions; track risks, issues, and mitigation plans; support Agile and Waterfall delivery; improve PMO processes; assist with onboarding; and respond to ServiceNow incidents and reporting needs.

Provides data privacy and artificial intelligence legal counseling to clients, including drafting privacy policies and data processing agreements, advising on retention and cybersecurity regulations, and supporting incident response, breach notifications, and data breach matters. The role requires legal research and writing, monitoring evolving privacy and AI laws, and collaboration with clients and colleagues.

Provides privacy counseling and guidance to clients on data collection, storage, use, retention, processing agreements, incident response, breach notifications, and AI matters. Monitors privacy, AI, and cybersecurity laws and regulations. Conducts legal research and drafting while assisting with data breach response. Requires legal bar admission or eligibility, CIPP certification, strong writing skills, and ideally 1–3 years of privacy experience.

Provides data privacy counseling to clients, including drafting retention policies, privacy and data processing agreements, incident response plans, breach notifications, and AI-related guidance. Assesses and mitigates data risks, supports breach response matters, and monitors privacy, AI, and cybersecurity regulations. Requires legal research and writing skills, CIPP certification, relevant privacy experience, and admission to a state bar.

Provides privacy counseling and guidance to clients on data collection, storage, distribution, and use. Drafts and reviews data retention policies, privacy and processing agreements, incident response plans, breach reports, and notifications. Advises on AI matters, privacy laws, and cybersecurity regulations, while assisting with data breach response. Requires legal research and writing skills, CIPP certification, and admission to or eligibility for admission to the local state bar.

Provides legal counseling on data privacy, AI, cybersecurity regulations, data retention, data processing agreements, incident response, breach notifications, and data breach matters. Monitors evolving state and federal privacy and AI laws while supporting clients in identifying and mitigating data-related risks. Requires strong legal research and writing skills, CIPP certification, and active local bar admission or eligibility to waive in.

Provides data privacy and AI legal counseling to clients, including drafting privacy policies and data processing agreements, advising on data retention, incident response, breach notifications, and compliance with privacy, AI, and cybersecurity regulations. The role also requires legal research, writing, client interaction, and maintaining knowledge of evolving state and federal laws.

Oversee daily records management operations for a law firm office, including organization, retention, retrieval, disposition, legal holds, ethical walls, and records inquiries. Supervise, train, schedule, and evaluate records staff while coordinating workflows and service requests. Develop policies, improve processes, manage storage and supplies, review quality, approve shredding invoices, and support attorneys, employees, clients, vendors, and department leadership.

Supports attorneys on international trade, regulatory, litigation, investigations, and administrative matters. Responsibilities include preparing government and court filings, drafting and proofreading legal documents, managing case files and deadlines, coordinating document collections and productions, conducting procedural and regulatory research, and maintaining matter databases and tracking resources.

Supports legal and business project coordination, process improvement, KPI analysis, AI solution development, attorney collaboration, cross-departmental initiatives, project documentation, and status presentations. The intern works with Legal Operations and teams such as Finance, Marketing, and IT to improve workflows and operational efficiency within a law firm.

Collects, standardizes, and analyzes business intelligence to support marketing, business development, client relationships, and strategic planning. Maintains experience, relationship, rankings, credential, and industry data; conducts competitive and market research; creates dashboards and reports; manages alerts; and partners with stakeholders to make insights actionable for firmwide initiatives.

Litigation Associate handling white collar matters, investigations, and complex commercial litigation in Tennessee state and federal courts. Responsibilities include discovery, depositions, motion drafting, hearings, trial preparation, case strategy, client representation, legal research, writing, and collaboration with trial lawyers. The role requires Tennessee Bar admission, strong academic credentials, and 3 to 6 years of law-firm litigation experience.

Provides privacy counseling and regulatory guidance to clients; drafts data retention policies, privacy and data processing agreements, incident response plans, breach reports, and notifications. Assists with data breach response and AI matters while monitoring privacy, AI, and cybersecurity laws. Requires strong legal research and writing skills, CIPP certification, relevant privacy experience, and active or eligible bar admission.