Jobs at McDermott Will & Schulte

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.

The Conflicts Attorney analyzes and resolves potential conflicts involving new business and lateral attorney hires across firm offices. Responsibilities include preparing conflict reports, advising attorneys and firm committees, maintaining ethical screens and waivers, reviewing engagement letters and outside counsel guidelines, conducting legal research, and ensuring compliance with conflicts and risk management policies. The role requires strong judgment, organization, communication, confidentiality, and the ability to manage deadlines with minimal supervision.

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.

Supports People Analytics through HR data analysis, dashboards, reporting, workforce modeling, and employee listening programs. Designs and analyzes surveys, focus groups, and feedback channels; identifies trends; and translates findings into actionable recommendations for leaders. Manages Qualtrics, Workday Peakon, and Workday Reporting capabilities while partnering with HRIS and IT to ensure accurate, secure, and governed people data. Evaluates HR programs, supports workforce planning, and improves analytical practices across the global HR function.

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.

Coordinates law student recruiting and summer associate programs across assigned offices. Manages law school relationships, outreach, interviews, candidate communications, offers, applicant tracking data, events, budgets, invoices, background checks, reporting, and recruiting process improvements while supporting firm-wide talent acquisition initiatives.

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.

Researches potential clients and matters, processes conflict searches, analyzes and edits results, audits conflicts database records, and communicates findings to attorneys and compliance teams. Coordinates with attorneys and secretaries, researches clients using online tools, assists with report interpretation and database troubleshooting, and protects confidential information while meeting tight deadlines.

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.

The Knowledge and Innovation Counsel leads AI and knowledge management initiatives for assigned legal practice groups. Responsibilities include identifying use cases, guiding attorneys on AI tools, customizing prompts and workflows, curating precedents and playbooks, delivering legal and technology training, analyzing adoption data, supporting solution development, monitoring legal technology developments, and representing innovation priorities to firm leadership. The role also mentors junior knowledge professionals and partners with attorneys, clients, and technology teams.

Manages full-cycle recruiting for non-attorney business professionals. Partners with hiring managers and HR to assess staffing needs, develop recruiting plans, source candidates, conduct screenings, recommend finalists, prepare competitive salary offers, manage staffing agencies, build talent pipelines, and maintain accurate ATS records. The role requires strong communication, organization, multitasking, data analysis, and knowledge of recruiting practices and ATS systems.

Supports Tax and Private Client marketing by executing campaigns, thought leadership, email nurture programs, events, website content, videos, social media, and promotional materials. Maintains lawyer biographies, analyzes campaign performance using KPIs and dashboards, monitors industry and competitor trends, and identifies opportunities to improve engagement, generate demand, and support cross-selling.

Provides strategic leadership for U.S. accounting operations, financial reporting, general ledger integrity, accounting governance, internal controls, and compliance. Develops accounting strategy, oversees accounting standards and reporting processes, monitors financial performance and risks, and leads cross-functional transformation involving systems, workflows, reporting platforms, and data governance. Drives continuous improvement, strengthens controls, and partners with leadership to improve financial insights and operational effectiveness.

Provides desk-side technology support, resolves and escalates help desk tickets, troubleshoots hardware and software, supports desktop applications and mobile devices, and coordinates new-hire setups, office moves, departures, and conferencing. Participates in technology pilots, follows IT policies, assists with local and regional projects, and may support office infrastructure such as cabling. Requires effective communication, prioritization, confidentiality, flexibility, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Manages business development for the employment practice group by developing growth strategies, expanding client relationships, identifying cross-selling opportunities, overseeing RFPs and proposals, integrating lateral partners, managing budgets, guiding team performance, supporting attorney business plans, coordinating events, reviewing marketing collateral, and monitoring market trends.