Jobs at Cozen O'Connor

Manage lateral partner recruitment and strategic sourcing for a law firm. Responsibilities include developing recruiting strategies, building search-firm relationships, creating candidate target lists, maintaining legal market intelligence, coordinating candidate screening and due diligence, managing recruitment processes, supporting recruiting collateral, and organizing candidate and firm events. The role requires legal recruitment experience, strategic judgment, strong legal-market knowledge, and travel as needed.

Develop and manage firmwide pricing strategies, models, and profitability analyses. Monitor pricing arrangements, competitive trends, and complex engagements; support negotiations and client relationships; implement matter management techniques; maintain contract database content; and deliver insights and ad hoc analyses to executive and firm leadership.

Manages business operations for legal practices and ancillary businesses, providing financial oversight, budgeting, profitability analysis, KPI management, pricing support, and P&L reporting. Coordinates with Finance, IT, case management, and other administrative teams; leads matter management, lateral acquisition integration, process improvements, and financial systems initiatives. Partners with Data Analysis and FP&A teams and manages operational projects and staff.

Supports attorneys in complex commercial litigation and fraud recovery matters. Responsibilities include preparing and filing court documents, coordinating subpoenas and service, managing discovery, scheduling depositions, conducting factual and legal research, communicating with clients and witnesses, maintaining case files, tracking deadlines, and using legal research and case management systems.

Supports attorneys in complex insurance litigation through trial preparation, discovery management, medical-record analysis, legal research, document production, pleadings, deposition coordination, evidence organization, and e-discovery. Maintains communication with attorneys, clients, and witnesses; conducts factual investigations; manages confidential information; and uses legal research, case management, billing, and document-review technologies.

Build, test, deploy, and maintain AI-enabled workflows for transactional legal work, including diligence, agreement review, redlining, clause extraction, deal summarization, and closing automation. Develop prompts, agents, retrieval pipelines, evaluations, guardrails, and documentation. Partner with legal, engineering, security, knowledge-management, and vendor teams to translate practice needs into reliable production solutions, support adoption, monitor quality and impact, and continuously improve workflows.

Build, test, deploy, and maintain AI-enabled litigation workflows, including document review, discovery, deposition preparation, drafting, and summarization. Develop prompts, agents, retrieval pipelines, evaluations, guardrails, templates, and quality controls. Partner with attorneys, legal engineering, knowledge management, security, and other teams to translate litigation needs into production-ready solutions. Support adoption, training, governance, maintenance, metrics, and continuous improvement while ensuring confidentiality, reliability, human oversight, and professional-responsibility compliance.

Produces, formats, revises, proofreads, and manages legal documents for attorneys and legal staff. Performs PDF conversion, OCR, Bates numbering, mail merges, electronic filing, and document production using legal technology tools. Creates presentations, spreadsheets, timelines, organizational charts, and electronic closing binders. Supports document management processes, enters attorney time, and manages multiple priorities while delivering accurate work on schedule.

Lead strategy, architecture, delivery, and operational support for enterprise software and workflow automation. Manage a multidisciplinary team and vendor partners to deliver enterprise-scale applications, modernize platforms, drive CI/CD and cloud practices, and ensure lifecycle management, reliability, and business-aligned technical solutions.

Provides part-time administrative and office operations support, including mail and package handling, UPS shipments, matter setup in claims software, supply ordering, equipment troubleshooting, telephone coverage, postage management, and coordination with building management. The role requires strong organization, communication, multitasking, attention to detail, proofreading, problem-solving, and technology skills.

Provide administrative support to attorneys by transcribing correspondence, preparing client/matter forms, invoices, and e-filings; inputting critical dates into docketing system; scheduling depositions/mediations; managing electronic and paper files; liaising with vendors and clients; proofreading documents; and coordinating meetings and document workflow.

Supports attorneys and clients with trust and estate administration, including probate coordination, asset valuation, tax return preparation and filing, fiduciary accountings, tax payments, beneficiary distributions, and estate termination. Serves as a primary contact for representatives, beneficiaries, advisors, and accountants; maintains financial records and coordinates family office services. Requires strong organization, confidentiality, communication, accounting, and technology skills.

Conduct daily conflicts research, run and analyze conflicts searches, identify potential conflicts, maintain conflicts database data integrity, and process electronic client and matter opening requests. Research corporate information using legal and business databases, communicate with attorneys and staff, manage multiple assignments and deadlines, and support conflicts-related projects independently or collaboratively.

Provide front-desk and hospitality services including answering phones, greeting guests, managing conference room and videoconference reservations, coordinating deliveries and mail, ordering catering, organizing office events, communicating with building management, and supporting miscellaneous administrative projects for attorneys and staff.

Manage client-specific billing rates and AFAs in systems (e.g., Aderant); act as SME for rate inquiries; ensure compliance with client billing guidelines; support audits; mentor junior staff; and collaborate with IT and Finance to improve reporting and automation.

Provide remote calendaring and docketing support for litigation and non-litigation matters using BEC Docket Enterprise. Research court rules, create and quality-check calendar entries and reports, attach relevant documents, communicate with attorneys/paralegals, train staff on docketing systems, and ensure compliance with firm calendaring policies to avoid missed deadlines.

Provide litigation support across all stages: prepare and e-file documents, manage case files and calendars, handle document review and e-discovery, retrieve subpoenas and third-party records, conduct factual research, draft correspondence, assist with trial preparation and attendance, and accurately enter time in billing systems.

Manage lateral attorney and student recruiting lifecycle for the firm: sourcing, candidate tracking, screening, references, background checks, conflict clearance, onboarding, and coordinating with HR and search firms. Support recruiting initiatives and assist leadership as needed.

Partner with transactional and advisory practices to identify AI and workflow improvements, lead pilots from design to adoption, build reusable AI-enabled tools (prompts, agents, playbooks), provide training and hands-on support, and drive client-facing innovation and firmwide scaling of AI solutions.

Partner with litigation teams to identify AI and process-improvement opportunities, lead pilots from design to adoption, build reusable AI-enabled playbooks and prompts, train and support lawyers on generative AI use, and advance client-facing litigation delivery strategies.