Jobs at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Designs, implements, maintains, and optimizes enterprise IT infrastructure across on-premises and Microsoft cloud environments. Manages iManage Work and document management integrations, enterprise applications, SaaS platforms, networking services, web servers, and automation scripts. Troubleshoots complex technical issues, coordinates vendors and support escalations, maintains system documentation, and collaborates with operations and networking teams. Participates quarterly in a weekly 24/7 on-call rotation.

Provides confidential administrative, technical, and organizational support to the COO, Director of Strategic Initiatives, and team. Responsibilities include calendar and meeting management, phone support, domestic and international travel arrangements, expense reporting, invoice processing, communications, leadership events, logistics, research, and special projects. The role requires strong organization, communication, discretion, judgment, adaptability, proofreading, and Microsoft Office proficiency.

Provides secretarial, technical, and organizational support to lawyers and managerial staff. Responsibilities include managing assignments, calendars, meetings, correspondence, legal documents, travel arrangements, time and expense entry, billing support, collections, client communication, and practice-group coordination. The role requires professionalism, discretion, strong organization, attention to detail, technical proficiency, and effective collaboration with attorneys, clients, and internal teams.

Supports the law firm’s legal knowledge management and innovation initiatives by evaluating technology solutions, coordinating vendors and pilots, tracking budgets and governance approvals, documenting workflows, and supporting tool rollouts and adoption. Partners with lawyers, technical teams, and practice groups to manage initiatives from intake through implementation, including training, communications, stakeholder engagement, and performance monitoring.

Leads business development and marketing initiatives for financial institutions, national security, fintech, and crypto practices. Responsibilities include managing pitches and RFPs, sponsorships, events, legal directory submissions, marketing materials, databases, mailing lists, market research, and attorney visibility initiatives. The role collaborates with attorneys and teams across PR, communications, finance, business intelligence, and graphics while improving internal processes and client development efforts.

Drives adoption of generative AI and legal technology across transactional practices. Identifies workflow opportunities, configures and tests AI tools, develops prompts, trains attorneys, creates playbooks, supports responsible AI governance, and converts transactional precedents into structured knowledge resources. Requires a J.D., 3–5 years of substantive transactional law-firm experience, and practical experience with legal AI tools and AI/ML concepts.

The Innovation Attorney, Litigation will help integrate generative AI and legal technology into litigation workflows. Responsibilities include configuring and testing AI tools, developing prompts, training attorneys and staff, creating playbooks and knowledge resources, supporting responsible AI governance, gathering user feedback, evaluating vendors, and advancing firm-wide innovation initiatives. The role requires substantive litigation experience, legal technology proficiency, strong communication and project management skills, and the ability to build credibility with senior litigators.

Administer health and welfare benefits, including open enrollment, ACA compliance, Form 5500 reporting, life insurance trust processes, reconciliations, vendor coordination, and employee support. Partner with HRIS on Workday configuration and collaborate with Payroll, Finance, carriers, brokers, and auditors. Maintain accurate benefits data, documentation, controls, and compliance processes while identifying workflow improvements and supporting benefits projects.

Coordinates business development and marketing initiatives for a law firm's Finance practice, including client pitches, RFPs, presentations, legal directory submissions, league tables, marketing materials, experience databases, market research, events, sponsorships, and competitive analysis. Collaborates with partners, lawyers, Public Relations, and Marketing teams while managing multiple deadlines and maintaining accurate practice information.

Provides administrative, secretarial, technical, and organizational support to attorneys and managers. Responsibilities include preparing legal documents, managing calls, correspondence, calendars, meetings, travel arrangements, attorney time, expenses, client billing, payment tracking, reception coverage, and special projects. Requires strong communication, proofreading, typing, confidentiality, teamwork, reliability, and proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.

Supervise administrative assistants supporting attorneys and business professionals. Manage staffing coverage, scheduling, performance evaluations, onboarding, training coordination, records, communications, and workflow improvements. Lead administrative professional recruitment, workforce planning, succession planning, cross-training, and talent development while ensuring policy adherence, confidentiality, service quality, and business continuity.

Provides administrative, secretarial, technical, and organizational support to lawyers and managers. Responsibilities include preparing legal documents, managing calls, correspondence, calendars, appointments, travel, files, meetings, attorney time, expenses, client billing, payment tracking, reception coverage, and special projects. Requires strong communication, proofreading, typing, confidentiality, organization, reliability, teamwork, and proficiency with Microsoft Office.

Conducts conflict-of-interest searches for new matters and lateral attorneys across all firm offices using iManage Conflicts Management. Reviews and clarifies matter requests, researches corporate relationships, prepares conflict reports, applies standardized search procedures, and maintains database records and shared documents. Collaborates with Conflicts, Recruiting, Human Resources, and General Counsel teams, supports special projects, and provides assigned on-call coverage.

Engineer and support identity management, cloud and hybrid infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, servers, core network services, and secure technology systems. Responsibilities include troubleshooting, platform deployments and upgrades, automation through scripting, system documentation, cross-functional collaboration with Operations, Networking, and InfoSec, and participation in a weekly 24/7 on-call rotation.

Support attorneys on corporate transactions by drafting and proofreading documents, managing due diligence and virtual data rooms, coordinating signatures and filings, preparing closing materials, conducting factual research, and maintaining precedents and capital markets tables.

Leads AI enablement and adoption for eDiscovery and litigation workflows. Designs and implements AI solutions, evaluates tools, manages testing and vendor coordination, analyzes user feedback and adoption metrics, develops workflow recommendations, and creates training and best-practice resources. Serves as a subject-matter expert for AI-enabled eDiscovery tools and partners with attorneys, project managers, IT, knowledge teams, and vendors to deploy scalable solutions.

Provide compliance support to the General Counsel's Office by reviewing and monitoring engagement letters, outside counsel guidelines, client questionnaires, NDAs, and vendor contracts; support business development compliance (marketing, advertising, social media); perform lateral attorney conflicts analyses and draft waiver requests; liaise with attorneys, Vendor Management Office, and business services; and provide evening/weekend on-call coverage and special project support.

Manage and produce targeted business development materials for the M&A/Private Equity practice, including pitches, RFPs, league table submissions, marketing collateral, and competitive analysis. Maintain matter and client databases, coordinate events and sponsorships, collaborate with PR/Marketing, and monitor market and competitor trends to support partner-led client development initiatives.

Supervise and coordinate a night shift team of word processors, document specialists, and proofreaders. Assign and monitor work, troubleshoot documents, maintain logs and personnel records, perform evaluations, ensure staffing, provide customer service and support off-hour requests, and implement departmental procedures.

Lead word processing workflow during supervisor absence; manage, prioritize, and complete document requests; monitor equipment, supplies, and temps; perform conflict searches and troubleshoot technical issues; prepare shift reports and maintain confidentiality while supporting lawyers and business services professionals across varied shifts.