Jobs at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

The Business Development Specialist in Technology, Media, and Telecom focuses on shaping business strategies, enhancing client relationships, and executing marketing initiatives for the firm's TMT sector.

The Legal Project Manager will oversee legal operations, manage project timelines, coordinate teams, ensure budget compliance, and implement tech solutions.

This role involves designing and delivering Salesforce solutions, leading integration and security efforts, and guiding teams to ensure platform evolution.

The Executive Assistant provides administrative support to fee earners, manages calendars, travel arrangements, expenses, and ensures effective communication while maintaining a collaborative and proactive work environment.

Produce, format, convert, proofread, and quality-check complex legal documents and presentations to firm standards and deadlines. Transcribe audio, troubleshoot document technical issues (using tools like DocXTool), support fee earners, manage workflow bookings, and collaborate with global teams to handle peak demand and process improvements.

Senior Workday Analyst manages and configures Workday Talent & Performance, leads design-to-deployment changes, supports releases and testing, drives roadmap and governance, ensures compliance and documentation, mentors junior staff, and collaborates with stakeholders and partners to improve HR processes and user adoption.

Partner with the HR Business Partner to deliver HR programs and day-to-day support across U.S. Business Services. Coordinate performance management, employee relations intake, engagement and development activities, HR projects, Workday recordkeeping, and HR communications while supporting managers and employees.

Advises the firm and partnership on business acceptance, conflicts of interest, confidentiality, sanctions, AML, reputational risk, ethics, regulatory compliance, client engagement terms, and related US legal issues. Conducts client and matter due diligence, reviews lateral hires, drafts waivers and engagement documents, maintains information barriers and records, supports training, and helps improve global risk and compliance processes.

Advise on partnership structure, governance and constitutional matters. Support partner lifecycle issues, structural changes, regulatory and compliance considerations, and strategic projects. Liaise with General Counsel, Partnership Accounting and business stakeholders, contribute to risk management, policy development, PI insurance renewals, and training. Provide legal research, draftings and senior-level briefings to support firm governance and operational initiatives.

Serve as Workday security and data subject-matter expert: design and maintain security model, manage data governance and quality, perform audits, support integrations, ensure compliance with privacy and retention requirements, and partner with stakeholders to resolve issues and improve processes globally.

Provide cloud security assessments and advisory for Azure, M365 and GCP; optimize Defender and security monitoring; improve Conditional Access and IAM; maintain SIEM and vulnerability tooling; support cyber incident response; ensure compliance and perform audits; implement IaC best practices (Terraform) and advise on threat detection and remediation.

Manage and implement client rate agreements, maintain fee earner and matter data, review financial information for new matters, support pricing queries, perform system maintenance, produce reports, and recommend process improvements to support billing and commercial pricing operations.

Advise clients on corporate law matters, manage transactions, draft contracts, and train junior members in a collaborative legal environment.

The Global Billing Analyst manages the order-to-cash cycle, ensuring efficient billing transactions, resolving discrepancies, and generating financial reports to support decision-making.

Lead and execute US and global corporate practice business development: craft pitches and proposals, manage campaigns, content and directory submissions, support key client relationships, mentor junior staff, and maintain marketing collateral and experience lists to drive new business opportunities.

Join Freshfields' antitrust practice to advise clients on competition and trade law, manage transactions, and participate in business development.

The Revenue Operations Analyst oversees the revenue lifecycle for partners, providing financial guidance, managing billing, and ensuring compliance with guidelines while enhancing revenue performance.

Lead end-to-end transformation and technology-enabled projects for Marketing & Business Development Global Operations. Define governance, plans, RAID logs and reporting; coordinate cross-functional technical and business workstreams; drive process redesign, vendor/technology discovery and change adoption to embed new ways of working and maximise value.

Provide BD-driven market and competitor research for the US practice; synthesize platform content into actionable outputs for attorneys; leverage agentic AI for targeted research; build stakeholder relationships; monitor market, regulatory and political developments; support client targeting and business development projects.

Process and apply incoming client payments (wire, ACH, cheque), manage IOLTA/client trust accounts, reconcile cash and trust ledgers, research and resolve unidentified receipts, prepare cash and trust reports, enforce controls, and liaise with Billing, Collections, and AP.