Jobs at McDermott Will & Schulte

Supports legal teams and business operations by gathering and documenting requirements, analyzing processes, designing workflows, evaluating solutions, and measuring usability. Collaborates with IT and stakeholders on estimates, project planning, communications, training, and change management. Uses AI tools to accelerate requirements gathering, prototyping, process analysis, and documentation while validating outputs. Presents findings and prototypes to technical and non-technical audiences and identifies opportunities to improve efficiency through AI.

Provides desk-side technology support, troubleshoots hardware and software, manages help desk tickets, supports desktop and mobile devices, and coordinates IT activities such as new-hire setup, office moves, conference technology, and departures. Participates in technology pilots, follows IT policies, supports local and regional projects, and assists with office infrastructure as needed.

Lead creative vision and delivery for McDermott events from intimate gatherings to 2,000+ attendee signature events. Design immersive physical and digital experiences, oversee digital assets and on-site branding, manage creative workflows and timelines, brief and direct internal designers and external vendors, and ensure cohesive, on-brand execution on time and on budget.

Build and deploy applied AI solutions for legal and business workflows. Partner with attorneys and operational leaders to identify use cases, design AI applications, orchestrate agentic workflows, engineer prompts, integrate solutions with enterprise systems and APIs, validate outcomes with stakeholders, document delivery, and monitor emerging AI technologies. The role requires software solution delivery experience, hands-on AI building, prompt engineering, API integration, cloud knowledge, and strong communication skills.

Own the full QA lifecycle for AI-powered legal solutions, including unit, integration, system, regression, performance, scalability, and security testing. Partner with analysts and engineers to generate edge-case tests, validate AI outputs, integrate automated test suites into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, track defects, maintain documentation, and report quality metrics. The role also promotes quality practices across the development workflow and evaluates solution reliability under real-world conditions.

Process and audit attorney and business professional payrolls in Workday, validating earnings, deductions, taxes, reconciliations, journal entries, and payroll reports. Investigate discrepancies, ensure legal and internal-control compliance, respond to employee inquiries, maintain documentation, and collaborate with HR and Accounting. The role also supports process improvements, technology adoption, and accurate general ledger reporting while protecting confidential information.

Researches and processes conflict-of-interest searches for prospective clients and matters. Coordinates with attorneys and secretaries, analyzes and communicates search results, audits conflicts database information, researches firm clients, and provides support for report interpretation and database issues. The role requires strong organization, analytical ability, communication skills, confidentiality, prioritization, and the ability to meet tight deadlines in a global law firm.

Administer and communicate attorney compensation and promotion programs, including schedules, policies, reporting, data analysis, tools, documents, presentations, and event logistics. Coordinate with firm leaders, compensation committees, attorneys, and accounting teams while maintaining confidential information. Monitor market compensation trends, support process changes, and provide financial metrics and decision-support data. The role requires strong organization, communication, analytical, project management, and collaboration skills in a fast-paced environment.

Manages business development for the Transactions practice, partnering with attorneys to expand client relationships, increase revenue, and strengthen brand recognition. Leads business development staff and processes, identifies growth and cross-selling opportunities, oversees proposals and RFPs, supports lateral partner integration, manages budgets, advises attorneys on business plans, coordinates events, reviews marketing collateral, and monitors market trends.

Develops and executes business development strategies for investment management and capital markets practices. Identifies growth, cross-selling, and new business opportunities; manages proposals, budgets, partner integration, attorney business development plans, events, communications collateral, and market monitoring. Oversees business development staff and processes while supporting client relationships, revenue growth, and brand recognition.

Supports global lateral partner and counsel recruiting by coordinating candidate interviews, evaluations, due diligence, hiring pipelines, recruitment agencies, stakeholders, and end-stage offer documentation. The role advances strategic hiring initiatives, resolves issues, maintains confidentiality, and ensures an efficient, high-quality candidate experience while collaborating with firm leadership and recruiting partners.

Provides administrative support for lateral partner and counsel recruiting, including applicant tracking system updates, interview scheduling, candidate communications, expense processing, onboarding coordination, feedback tracking, recruiting metrics, file maintenance, and event logistics. The role supports Talent Acquisition Coordinators, handles confidential information, responds to routine inquiries, and assists with recruiting projects and internal communications under established guidelines.

Owns Workday Payroll configuration, maintenance, testing, troubleshooting, reporting, and continuous improvement. Manages payroll rules, tax setup, general ledger mapping, journal entries, reconciliations, data integrity, and compliance controls. Partners with HR, Accounting, and other stakeholders to develop scalable automated solutions, document processes, resolve errors, and lead AI adoption within payroll. Requires substantial payroll systems expertise, strong analytical and communication skills, and the ability to manage complex technical objectives independently.

Reviews and transfers client data during attorney departures, protecting client privilege, firm proprietary information, and intellectual property. Uses Relativity, eDiscovery, data management, artificial intelligence, and analytics tools to prepare, search, review, code, and automate document workflows. Develops transfer protocols, documents review processes, researches emerging technologies, maintains quality, and manages transition timelines and communications.

Manages information governance, risk, and compliance initiatives focused on attorney and client onboarding, offboarding, client transfers, legal holds, and electronically stored information. Coordinates data identification, collection, classification, transfer, metadata accuracy, repository tracking, security controls, and workspace access. Supports attorneys and business teams, resolves policy inquiries, develops compliance procedures and educational materials, and contributes to technology workflows, integrations, analytics, and internal controls.

Executes digital marketing campaigns in Eloqua, including emails, forms, landing pages, audience segmentation, testing, deployment, QA, and reporting. Troubleshoots campaign, integration, HTML, CSS, and data issues; supports Marketing and Business Development teams; coordinates offshore execution; maintains platform governance and documentation; analyzes performance and recommends improvements. Requires five or more years of related experience and advanced marketing automation expertise.

Prepares standard and ad hoc financial reports on practice group, office, and attorney performance. Supports monthly reporting packages, management review calls, budgeting, lateral hire analysis, bank surveys, financial system maintenance, and data audits. Investigates financial inquiries, extracts data from reporting systems, resolves issues collaboratively, and ensures reporting accuracy and compliance with procedures.

Leads business development and marketing initiatives for corporate transactional practices. Responsibilities include client targeting, RFPs and pitches, lateral onboarding, cross-selling strategies, market research, events, sponsorships, legal directory submissions, proposal collateral, direct-report management, and budget oversight. The role partners with lawyers and marketing teams across markets and geographies while managing multiple priorities and supporting practice growth.

Executes law student recruiting and summer associate programs for assigned offices. Builds relationships with law schools and student organizations, manages interviews and offers, coordinates outreach and sponsorships, oversees 10-week summer programs, maintains ATS data, generates recruiting reports, manages budgets, and supports firm-wide recruiting initiatives and process improvements. Requires coordination with hiring partners, recruiting committees, and internal stakeholders while following NALP rules and school policies.

Oversee the security of firm applications, networks, systems, hardware, and mobile devices throughout their lifecycles. Develop security requirements and architecture, manage controls and configurations, perform certification and accreditation, maintain asset inventories, and ensure secure development and acquisition practices. Collaborate across departments and mentor team members while serving as a primary technical security contact. The role requires independent judgment, strong analytical ability, knowledge of security frameworks and technologies, and at least seven years of related experience.