Teams at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

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.