Jobs at Mayer Brown

Leads business development and marketing strategy for M&A and private equity practices, including client targeting, pitches, proposals, thought leadership, market analysis, cross-selling, events, and profile-raising initiatives. Partners with firm leaders across practices and regions, manages budgets and workflows, supports lawyer onboarding and training, supervises team members, and drives measurable growth across institutional investor and corporate client markets.

Supports attorneys in complex commercial, appellate, and Supreme Court litigation. Responsibilities include managing discovery and eDiscovery workflows, document productions, case files, motions, depositions, trials, court filings, appeals, legal research, and deadline tracking. The role coordinates with attorneys, courts, clients, vendors, and witnesses; oversees junior paralegals; ensures compliance with procedural rules; and prepares, proofreads, and cite-checks litigation and appellate materials.

Advises Mayer Brown on legal, regulatory, professional responsibility, and ethical risks associated with AI, legal technology, automation, cloud systems, and client-facing technology services. The role develops AI governance policies, reviews technology onboarding and use cases, supports contracts and client negotiations, monitors global regulations, collaborates with technology and privacy teams, and delivers training on responsible AI use.

Provides docket support to lawyers and staff by calculating legal deadlines, maintaining case calendars, filing documents, researching court rules and case records, preparing reports, monitoring case activities, and coordinating clerical vendors. Requires strong organization, communication, confidentiality, attention to detail, and the ability to manage shifting priorities in a deadline-driven law firm environment.

Leads IT service delivery and support operations across EMEA and Asia, partnering with business and legal stakeholders to align technology with organizational goals. Oversees service levels, KPIs, incident management, projects, change initiatives, vendors, budgets, asset management, and ServiceNow optimization. Supervises and develops IT teams, promotes AI-enabled tools and automation, ensures governance and security compliance, and drives continual service improvement. Travel to regional offices may be required.

Provides transactional support to finance attorneys in a high-volume law firm practice. Responsibilities include drafting and editing finance documents, preparing EIN applications, conducting lien and public-record searches, coordinating UCC filings, managing signatures and closings, assembling electronic transaction binders, and archiving post-closing materials. The role requires strong organization, attention to detail, communication, confidentiality, deadline management, and proficiency with Microsoft Office.

Leads the architecture, development, and governance of Finance and Accounting data platforms, pipelines, semantic models, dashboards, and reporting solutions. Designs and optimizes SQL, Python, ETL, Power BI, and data warehouse environments; ensures data quality, security, scalability, and reliability. Partners with senior stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions, mentors engineers and analysts, leads vendor evaluations, supports financial applications, and advances enterprise data strategy.

Leads the global strategy, transformation, engineering, and lifecycle management of digital workplace, endpoint, desktop application, and productivity platforms. Oversees Windows endpoints, Intune, Microsoft 365, Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows 365, automation, security, service quality, vendors, budgets, and a global technology team. Partners with infrastructure, security, data, platform, architecture, and support leaders to modernize user-facing technology through cloud-based, automated, resilient operating models.

Leads implementation and maintenance of information security controls across cloud, identity, data, and enterprise platforms. Responsibilities include cloud hardening, identity and privileged access management, DLP operations, incident response, security monitoring, vulnerability management, AI/GenAI security, risk assessments, audits, policy support, and client security assessments. The role provides technical leadership, coordinates with architects and IT teams, supports compliance requirements, and develops security procedures and standards.

Develops and executes public and media relations strategies for a law firm, builds journalist relationships, secures coverage, positions lawyers as thought leaders, drafts communications materials, coaches spokespeople, manages PR vendors, monitors media activity, and advises firm leadership. The role also includes team supervision, budget analysis, staffing support, and workflow improvement.

Processes conflict-of-interest searches using the firm’s internal conflicts database, prepares accurate reports for Conflict Lawyers, filters sensitive information appropriately, and follows detailed procedures and deadlines. The role requires confidentiality, attention to detail, sound judgment, strong communication, customer service, adaptability, and the ability to manage shifting priorities. Overtime, weekend, and holiday work may be required.

Supports firm-wide tax compliance and partnership accounting by preparing tax estimates, schedules, filings, K-1 distributions, partner tax elections, audit responses, indirect tax reviews, tax notices, depreciation calculations, and global secondment tax coordination. Collaborates with partners, internal departments, tax preparers, outside advisors, and vendors while managing confidential information and time-sensitive deadlines.

Supports the firm's AI and digital transformation initiatives by analyzing workflows, identifying use cases, translating business needs into requirements, and coordinating AI-enabled solutions. Partners with business, IT, data, engineering, innovation, and change-management teams to develop prototypes, enable Microsoft 365 and Copilot experiences, guide implementation, deliver demonstrations and training, support user adoption, and identify emerging technology opportunities.

Advise private equity sponsors, lenders, and borrowers on complex leveraged and acquisition finance transactions. Draft and negotiate credit, security, and intercreditor agreements; manage transactions through closing; collaborate on cross-border matters; maintain client relationships; and support business development. The role requires an England and Wales-qualified solicitor with at least four years of post-qualification experience and strong leveraged finance expertise.

Manages technology service delivery for the New York office, including service desk, desktop support, hardware, access, audiovisual services, incidents, and events. Leads the local technology team, coordinates with global technology groups, supports projects and change adoption, and drives continual service improvement using ITIL and ServiceNow. Oversees security compliance, asset management, vendor coordination, reporting, GenAI enablement, stakeholder engagement, and service quality while managing staff, staffing, budgets, and operational priorities.

Supports business development and marketing initiatives for energy and commercial litigation practices. Responsibilities include executing business plans, coordinating thought leadership and events, managing proposals and marketing materials, conducting competitive intelligence, maintaining client and matter data, supporting directory submissions, tracking pipelines, and managing lawyer profiles. The role also provides Houston office support, mentors junior staff, and independently manages projects in a fast-paced professional services environment.

Supports business development and marketing initiatives for cybersecurity, data privacy, and related legal practices. Responsibilities include business planning, thought leadership, events, competitive intelligence, directory submissions, CRM management, pitches, proposals, marketing materials, and content development. The role partners with attorneys and firm leadership, manages projects independently, mentors junior staff, and supports global practice growth and client development.

Leads software quality control activities across IT systems, including test planning, test case development, manual and automated testing, UAT coordination, defect tracking, requirements traceability, environment administration, and quality metrics. Maintains QC processes and repositories, supports Agile and DevOps practices, coordinates vendors and project teams, provides status reporting, and coaches junior analysts. The role also contributes to forecasting, vendor selection, process improvement, and QC strategy development.

Supports Finance and Accounting data analysis, dashboards, reporting, data modeling, and ETL processes. Builds SQL queries, data pipelines, Power BI dashboards, and sustainable reporting systems. Partners with Enterprise Data, Finance, IT, and business stakeholders to identify, secure, transform, and govern data. Provides technical guidance, evaluates solutions, supports financial applications, participates in vendor engagements, and documents data processes and system designs.

Leads global technology learning and adoption programs across a law firm. Responsibilities include designing blended and digital learning experiences, developing role-based content, enabling Microsoft Copilot and responsible GenAI use, analyzing LMS and adoption data, advising technology projects on readiness and change management, delivering training, and partnering with IT, business, risk, and knowledge management stakeholders.