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

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.

Manage overall office operations and strategic planning in partnership with Office Managing Partner and Executive Operations Team. Oversee policies, quality control, risk management, records retention, vendor/building relations, staffing, performance, professional development, budgeting, procurement, and office space strategy (leases, construction, expansion). Coordinate with practice groups and firm committees to support recruitment, mentoring, diversity, and office communications.

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.

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.

Support a litigation practice through all phases of litigation and trial preparation: manage large document productions, handle discovery, interview witnesses and experts, draft pleadings, serve subpoenas, and assist with multi-party litigation. Travel required.

Manage a team that plans, administers, implements, supports, and trains users on enterprise applications (including document management, databases, and SaaS). Lead project prioritization, vendor evaluations, issue resolution, disaster recovery participation, budgeting, staff development, and after-hours or travel-required support as needed.

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.

Paralegal/Analyst supporting Product Liability Litigation: organize, review and analyze documents and discovery; interview witnesses and experts; prepare for and attend trials; perform litigation support tasks with strong attention to detail. May require in-office training and hybrid schedule thereafter; must be able to travel on short notice to attend trials.

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.

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.

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 litigation support across all phases: manage large document productions and discovery, interview witnesses and experts, draft pleadings and subpoenas, assist with trial preparation/exhibits, and travel as required. Join a hybrid litigation team handling multi-party matters.

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.

Provide litigation support by researching, analyzing, summarizing, and coding documents and medical/scientific records; draft basic pleadings and discovery; prepare trial exhibits, chronologies, and witness materials; assist at trials; manage document review projects and train/monitor temporary staff.

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.

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.

Support the revenue cycle through data analysis, reporting, process improvement, and training for billing and client accounting. Monitor AR, billing metrics, write-offs, and inventory to identify risks and revenue leakage. Troubleshoot billing issues, support system changes and testing, develop documentation and training, and assist with month-end reporting and audit requests to ensure billing compliance and cash flow.

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 clerical and administrative support to multiple attorneys, paralegals and analysts: draft legal correspondence, manage calendars, prepare documents, ensure legal citation and court-filing awareness, and maintain office workflows. Must type 50 WPM and use Microsoft Office; support ongoing learning and mentor teammates.