Jobs at Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Support litigation practice through all phases of litigation and trial preparation: large document production, discovery, interviewing witnesses and experts, drafting pleadings, subpoenaing records, and assisting with multi-party litigation matters. Travel is required.

Provide administrative and clerical support to attorneys, paralegals, and analysts: manage calendars, enter time, handle phone reception, arrange travel, prepare and proofread legal correspondence and court/patent filings, perform document scanning/faxing/ECF transmittals, assist with filing deadlines, and mentor trainees.

Provide clerical and administrative support to attorneys, paralegals, and analysts: draft correspondence, manage calendars, prepare documents using legal citations, and perform time entry. Use Microsoft Office, redlining tools, and maintain court filing awareness; must type 50 WPM.

Provide accurate legal software and document support: create, format, revise, and transcribe legal documents; assist with filing, special projects, training, quality assurance, and occasional weekend or backup coverage. Support internal customers and mentor or train staff as needed.

Designs, builds, tests and integrates AI agents, copilots and applications for legal workflows. Implements RAG, vector search, Azure OpenAI integrations, SharePoint and Power Platform customizations, APIs and automation. Conducts pilots, evaluations for accuracy/security, documents findings, and trains attorneys and staff to adopt AI solutions.

Lead paralegal/analyst supporting litigation and discovery: research, document review and coding, trial preparation, case management, supervising reviewers, developing processes, client communication, and onsite trial support.

Administer, secure, and support enterprise AI platforms (Microsoft Copilot, Claude, Azure-hosted solutions). Manage integrations, access controls, RBAC, audit logging, cost monitoring, and Tier 2/3 incident resolution. Coordinate vendors, maintain documentation, configure Azure environments, and ensure compliance with firm governance and data protection policies. Provide occasional after-hours and training-related travel support.

Provide administrative and technical support to attorneys and legal staff including time entry, phone reception, scheduling, travel/catering arrangements, ECF/federal court filings, transcription, proofreading, document preparation, mail and records management, and basic IT/device support. Mentor trainees and prioritize workloads to meet deadlines associated with litigation, patent prosecution, and firm processes.

Provide clerical and administrative support to attorneys, paralegals and analysts: draft correspondence, manage calendars, prepare documents using legal citations, handle legal time entry, and perform court filing–aware tasks. Must type 50 WPM and use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and redlining tools.

Support litigation teams by organizing, coding, and summarizing documents; drafting discovery and basic pleadings; obtaining records; interviewing witnesses; selecting exhibits; maintaining calendars, time records and case databases; traveling to trials; mentoring staff paralegals; and communicating case status to clients and attorneys.

Provide clerical and administrative support to multiple attorneys, paralegals, and analysts: draft legal correspondence, manage calendars, prepare documents, use legal citations, handle legal time entry, and apply knowledge of court filing requirements and MS Office. Must type 50 WPM.

Provide clerical, administrative, and organizational support to attorneys, paralegals and analysts: draft correspondence, manage calendars, prepare documents, handle legal citations, time entry, and use office software and redlining tools.

Provide administrative and technical support to attorneys and staff: timekeeping, phone reception, scheduling, travel/catering arrangements, e-filing (ECF), transcription, proofreading, document preparation (patent, trademark, court filings, correspondence), calendar management, basic tech support, mentoring trainees, and maintaining records and office procedures.

Support communications to increase firm brand awareness across website, social media, press and intranet. Assist PR with awards/submissions, maintain editorial calendars, help produce newsletters, social posts, videos/podcasts, update attorney bios, post website content, proofread materials, and provide administrative and project-management updates for the communications team.

Provide administrative and technical support to attorneys and staff including time entry, phone reception, scheduling, travel and catering arrangements, document preparation and proofreading, ECF filing/transmittals, transcription, mail and file maintenance, and basic IT connectivity assistance. Assist with legal correspondence, court document preparation, and mentor others on firm processes.

Provide litigation and practice-group support by entering and maintaining client/matter data, performing database searches, compiling and coding documents for discovery, assisting with docketing and billing information, preparing template documents with document-assembly tools, linking digital files, and supporting trial setup and onsite needs as required.

Support litigation practice across all phases: manage large document productions, handle discovery, interview witnesses and experts, draft pleadings, subpoena records, and assist trial preparation. Travel required.

Lead and oversee enterprise systems operations including compute, virtualization, storage, endpoint and access management, OS/application deployment, patching, backup, telecom and AV. Manage vendor relationships, capacity planning, documentation, disaster recovery participation, budgeting, and a team of staff providing after-hours and on-site operational support.

Manages the firm's core financial accounting systems and ancillary applications, ensuring controls, data governance, upgrades, and reliability. Oversees month-end and year-end close processes, system implementations, user training, documentation, process improvements, and acts as subject-matter expert partnering with finance leadership to support audit, reporting, and operational needs.