Jobs at Milbank LLP

Reviews and analyzes conflicts reports for new clients, matters, and lateral hires. Advises partners on legal and business risks, drafts conflict waivers, prepares ethical walls, audits intake data, researches professional conduct rules, and resolves conflicts. Guides conflict analysts, monitors ethics developments, communicates potential issues, and participates in urgent and on-call support.

Provides temporary senior leadership for a law firm’s legal recruiting function during maternity leave. Oversees campus, summer associate, lateral associate, clerkship, and partner recruiting; advises partners and firm leaders; manages recruiting approvals, headcount requests, search firms, candidate processes, and cross-functional escalations. Leads the recruiting team, maintains operational continuity, protects confidential information, and ensures accurate documentation, reporting, stakeholder communication, and timely decision-making across active hiring processes.

Owns the end-to-end lateral partner recruiting process, from search through offer, partnership vote, onboarding, and integration. Manages search-firm relationships, market intelligence, governance workflows, stakeholder communications, process improvements, reporting, and a recruiting coordinator. Partners with senior law firm leaders and Business Services teams while handling confidential compensation and governance information.

Delivers recurring and ad hoc financial, operational, and productivity analytics across departments. Analyzes billing, collections, inventory, staffing, utilization, profitability, and other performance metrics. Develops reports, dashboards, written analyses, and executive summaries; maintains reporting tools, databases, templates, and visualizations; validates data quality; and collaborates with finance teams on strategic and operational initiatives.

Leads IT financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, expense management, procurement oversight, vendor financial governance, and executive reporting for a $70 million-$100 million technology portfolio. Manages operating and capital budgets across software, hardware, cloud, AI, telecommunications, infrastructure, and managed services. Establishes FinOps and cost optimization practices, identifies financial risks and savings opportunities, and partners with IT, Finance, Procurement, Legal, vendors, and senior executives.

Coordinate recruiting and onboarding activities, including interview scheduling, candidate communications, agency relationships, job requisitions, ATS records, background checks, offers, and onboarding documentation. Maintain accurate pipeline data, support compliance and confidentiality requirements, provide updates to HR leadership, and contribute to candidate experience, employer branding, job fairs, and process-improvement initiatives.

Supports business development and marketing for energy, infrastructure, and project finance practices. Responsibilities include identifying prospects, coordinating pitches and proposals, maintaining marketing materials, preparing award submissions, supporting communications and thought leadership, managing sponsorships and events, assisting lateral partner onboarding, and collaborating across business services teams. The role may supervise a Business Development Coordinator and requires strong professional-services marketing, writing, project management, and relationship-building skills.

Supports business development and marketing for the firm’s Energy and Infrastructure practices. Responsibilities include maintaining website and client data, tracking matters and league tables, preparing RFPs and pitches, coordinating award submissions, managing events and sponsorships, conducting market and client research, and liaising on public relations communications. The role requires strong organization, writing, communication, data management, and Microsoft Office skills, plus 1–3 years of marketing experience in a law firm or professional services environment.

Manages global health, retirement, leave, disability, workers’ compensation, and wellbeing programs. Oversees compliance, open enrollment, vendors, audits, plan documentation, budgeting, financial reconciliation, employee support, communications, and Workday implementations. Leads benefits strategy, supports international offices, manages the benefits team, and develops program enhancements and employee engagement initiatives.

Oversees compensation program design, administration, analysis, and compliance. Leads annual merit, bonus, incentive, benchmarking, job evaluation, salary structure, pay equity, and compensation planning processes. Manages Workday compensation data governance, reporting, audits, budgeting, and forecasting. Advises HR and leadership on pay decisions and provides market-based recommendations while leading compensation projects and process improvements.

Provides senior litigation technology and electronic discovery support across the full matter lifecycle, including ESI preservation, collection, processing, review, production, and trial support. Administers and customizes Relativity environments, manages complex databases, workflows, analytics, and productions, troubleshoots systems, coordinates vendors and IT, develops project plans and cost estimates, trains attorneys and staff, supports trials and depositions, and mentors analysts.

Manages end-to-end client-facing events, including seminars, dinners, receptions, conferences, and special programs. Collaborates with attorneys, partners, practice leaders, and business development teams to establish objectives, timelines, budgets, and deliverables. Oversees venues, vendors, contracts, catering, audiovisual services, branding, transportation, on-site execution, and financial reporting. Develops creative event concepts, conducts post-event evaluations, maintains event data, and ensures consistent communications and branding across initiatives.

Manage and support enterprise security technologies including firewalls, SIEM, endpoint protection, IDS/IPS, DLP, vulnerability management, privileged access, and cloud security controls. Investigate and resolve security incidents, perform audits, risk assessments, vulnerability scans, and configuration reviews, and produce security metrics and documentation. The role also supports security architecture reviews, technology research, project planning, vendor management, and emergency on-call operations.

Supports attorney talent development for a litigation and arbitration practice group. Responsibilities include associate staffing, career counseling, performance evaluation support, training program implementation, onboarding, exit procedures, and professional development events. The role partners with attorneys and administrative teams across domestic offices and requires a JD, law firm experience, strong communication skills, discretion, flexibility, and hybrid attendance in New York.

Supports attorney talent and HR processes, including onboarding and offboarding, personnel record maintenance, employment verifications, orientation planning, scheduling, invoice and expense tracking, and general administrative support. The role requires discretion with confidential information, strong organization, attention to detail, advanced Excel skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a hybrid New York office environment.

Architects, develops, and maintains cloud-native C#/.NET applications and AI-powered solutions on Azure. Designs and deploys AI agents, RAG systems, prompt workflows, tool calling, and vector search capabilities. Establishes engineering standards, makes architectural decisions, conducts code reviews, mentors developers, and translates business needs into technical roadmaps. Integrates responsible AI practices, security, privacy, evaluation, and governance throughout the software development lifecycle.

Manage, maintain, and troubleshoot enterprise security technologies while monitoring, detecting, investigating, and remediating security incidents. Perform digital forensics, threat hunting, vulnerability and risk assessments, audits, compliance checks, evidence preservation, and root cause analysis. Collaborate with internal teams and third parties, implement new security solutions, create security documentation, and support incident response during regular and on-call hours.

Reviews and resolves legal and business conflicts for new clients, matters, and lateral hires. Drafts conflict waivers, ethical walls, screening memoranda, and related communications. Conducts corporate family-tree research, analyzes intake data, researches ethics rules, documents resolution steps, and advises partners and conflicts analysts. Requires availability for urgent matters and periodic on-call coverage.

Leads enterprise IT projects and AI initiatives from planning through delivery, coordinating internal teams, executives, vendors, consultants, and business stakeholders. Responsibilities include project governance, timelines, risks, dependencies, executive reporting, vendor accountability, AI tool rollout, change management, training coordination, adoption tracking, and AI governance. The role supports technology implementations, transformation programs, operating model improvements, and data, analytics, or AI-related initiatives.

Supports business development and marketing for assigned legal practices by maintaining digital and print content, drafting RFPs and pitches, preparing award submissions, managing marketing collateral, producing client communications, coordinating events and sponsorships, conducting client and competitor research, and assisting with special projects. The role requires strong organization, writing, communication, project prioritization, discretion, and proficiency with Microsoft Office and marketing or CRM platforms.