Jobs at Cooley

Advises a congressional investigations practice by monitoring hearings, investigations, legislative developments, media coverage, and current events. Conducts complex research, summarizes oversight activities, and translates findings into client alerts, briefings, talking points, and intelligence updates. Supports client meetings, congressional engagement, pitches, and marketing materials while coordinating stakeholders, maintaining confidentiality, and identifying process improvements. Requires extensive government investigations, public policy, journalism, or Capitol Hill experience and strong rapid-turnaround writing skills.

Provides administrative and recruiting support for the regional Legal Talent team serving San Francisco and Palo Alto. Responsibilities include applicant tracking, candidate communications, interview scheduling, travel coordination, recruiting reports, event and orientation support, file maintenance, invoice processing, budget reporting, and search firm agreement administration. The role also supports law school recruiting, summer associate programs, department reporting, calendars, and legal talent communications while maintaining confidentiality and coordinating with attorneys, candidates, and business professionals.

Recruit business professional candidates across the US by creating requisitions, sourcing passive and active talent, screening applicants, coordinating interviews and checks, managing Workday workflows, extending offers, and maintaining recruiting pipelines and metrics. Partner with hiring managers, HR systems, compensation teams, agencies, and vendors while serving as a Workday recruiting subject matter expert.

Leads client listening, win/loss analysis, market insight, strategic account programs, and client development initiatives. Translates research into actionable growth strategies, establishes governance and repeatable processes, monitors program outcomes, and manages team members. Requires strong data analysis, dashboard development, CRM and survey-platform expertise, executive communication, and cross-functional leadership within a marketing or business development environment.

Leads specialized conflicts clearance and onboarding for lateral partners, summer associates, and other candidates. Responsibilities include researching legal, ethical, corporate, sanctions, and business risks; evaluating conflicts and due diligence findings; preparing approval materials; coordinating cross-functional onboarding; maintaining conflicts databases; analyzing trends; drafting policies and documentation; and escalating issues to firm leadership and legal counsel.

Performs accurate U.S. and foreign intellectual property docketing, de-docketing, deadline tracking, correspondence processing, PTO filing review, database research, reporting, and quality checks. Communicates with attorneys, paralegals, specialists, clients, foreign associates, and government offices while monitoring regulatory changes and ensuring critical IP prosecution deadlines are handled.

The Knowledge Management Attorney develops and maintains legal forms, precedents, guidance, and training materials for private company practices. They partner with attorneys, product managers, engineers, QA, and operations to automate legal workflows, build data models, prioritize templates, and develop testing methodologies. The role also monitors legal and regulatory developments, assesses AI-related risks, supports usability testing, prepares thought leadership, and promotes adoption of legal technology solutions.

Provides legal support for corporate entity formation, maintenance, dissolution, transactions, closings, securities filings, due diligence, corporate records, capitalization tables, equity records, and Blue Sky filings. The role also prepares legal opinions, trains junior staff, manages confidential information, and coordinates multiple priorities for private and public company clients.

Manages IP client-service technology initiatives, including workflow automation, AI, systems integration, process improvement, requirements gathering, testing, implementation, training, and adoption. Coordinates cross-functional projects, evaluates risks and dependencies, ensures compliance with legal and information-security requirements, and supports continuous improvement. Also serves as a local office IP Services resource, troubleshooting operational issues and supporting practitioners, business professionals, and client needs.

Provides administrative, database, reporting, budgeting, event, training, and project coordination support for the firm’s Pro Bono Team. Responsibilities include invoice coding, document preparation, conflict checks, client and volunteer database maintenance, statistical reporting, budget monitoring, event logistics, travel arrangements, and coordination with legal service providers and firm staff.

Leads integrated content distribution by developing campaign copy, editing and proofreading materials, customizing messaging for target personas, coordinating email and web assets, executing A/B copy tests, maintaining messaging matrices, and ensuring brand consistency. Partners with campaign, design, and digital teams to meet delivery timelines. Supervises and mentors Messaging Specialists, manages staffing and performance processes, and supports hiring and employee development.

Leads geographic marketing strategy for events, sponsorships, client hospitality, and internal executive gatherings. Oversees market-based programming, vendor and agency relationships, governance, ROI measurement, analytics, post-event conversion, and cross-selling initiatives. Manages teams, mentors direct reports, develops scalable processes and tools, and partners with business development and firm leadership to strengthen client engagement, brand visibility, and business opportunities.

Provides complex administrative and legal support to business attorneys and paralegals. Responsibilities include document preparation, file and calendar management, client intake forms, invoicing, expense processing, time entry, prebills, audit letters, legal research, travel arrangements, business development CRM support, and maintaining CLE and bar records. The role also coordinates service-center projects, mentors assistants, supports workflow improvements, and requires strong organization, discretion, communication, and deadline management.

Supports the Pro Bono Practice through client intake, database management, reporting, document preparation, filings, event and training coordination, budget monitoring, web publishing, and administrative support. Maintains organized case files, coordinates communications with attorneys and legal service providers, processes engagement and conflict documents, and assists with presentations, travel, expenses, and special projects. Requires strong confidentiality, organization, judgment, communication, and multitasking skills in a fast-paced law firm environment.

Analyzes and improves technology operations, IT service management, governance, intake, portfolio monitoring, and business processes. The role researches and synthesizes information for leadership, validates processes against ITIL standards, develops dashboards and reporting, supports vendor and contract activities, maintains documentation, and drives adoption of technology tools and processes. It also facilitates collaboration between business and technology stakeholders and promotes continuous operational improvement.

Manages daily Business Intake and Conflicts operations, including workflow, staffing, intake and conflicts processing, compliance requests, escalations, reporting, and service quality. Supervises, mentors, and develops team members; supports hiring, performance management, training, and employee lifecycle activities. Collaborates with attorneys, paralegals, business professionals, HR, and BIC leadership to resolve issues, implement procedures, and achieve service goals while maintaining confidentiality and compliance.

Designs, delivers, and maintains technology learning programs for attorneys and business professionals. Creates curricula, instructor-led courses, videos, documentation, guides, and assessments; provides classroom and one-on-one coaching; coordinates training projects and rollouts; manages LMS registrations and completion records; diagnoses technology performance issues; supports QA and documentation; and partners with Technology, HR, and Administration to improve adoption and user effectiveness.

Lead omnichannel search and paid media strategy, own the ad-tech/search stack, manage onshore strategists and offshore agencies, optimize SEO/metadata and ROAS, drive attribution and performance reporting, collaborate with practice and brand teams for campaign amplification, develop AI-driven search roadmap, oversee paid media budget and compliance, and supervise and mentor direct reports.

Leads the firm's virtual programming strategy and owns virtual event platforms, vendor relationships, production standards, analytics, and technology roadmaps. Manages production and support teams, develops scalable digital event playbooks, and connects virtual experiences to marketing campaigns, client journeys, and nurture programs. Oversees event quality, stakeholder coordination, audience engagement, and on-demand content. Supervises and mentors employees while supporting hiring, performance management, staffing, and professional development.

Leads marketing strategy for the intellectual property business unit, translating practice objectives into campaigns, audience personas, personalization strategies, practice development initiatives, pitches, and proposals. Oversees budgets and sponsorship ROI, interprets performance data, partners cross-functionally with marketing and client development teams, and supervises and develops direct reports. Requires professional services or B2B marketing experience, strong communication and judgment, and the ability to manage complex initiatives under tight deadlines.