Jobs at Sidley Austin LLP

Supports legal pricing initiatives by developing rate proposals, alternative fee arrangements, matter budgets, and pricing models. Analyzes historical matters, billing rates, and financial data; prepares reports for firm, client, and matter management. The role also enhances financial templates, supports RFP pricing responses, contributes to training and knowledge sharing, and coordinates pricing information while managing multiple deadlines.

Provides administrative and legal support to lawyers handling transactional matters, including contracts and mergers and acquisitions. Manages documents, calendars, client onboarding, billing, travel, meetings, communications, files, and workflow for multiple fee earners. Coordinates with firm departments, clients, vendors, and support staff while maintaining confidentiality, accuracy, professional relationships, and adherence to firm procedures.

Leads implementation, administration, integration, optimization, and support of learning technology and digital adoption platforms. Establishes technical standards, manages LMS and HCM integrations, evaluates AI-enabled tools, develops training and adoption programs, supports users, and measures learning effectiveness. Partners with business and L&D leaders on digital learning strategy, testing, documentation, continuous improvement, and firmwide initiatives. The role includes approximately 5–10% travel.

Supports the Senior Legal Recruiting Manager with summer associate programming and law student recruiting for the New York office. Coordinates events, onboarding, interviews, applications, reviews, recruiting materials, database records, office tours, and hiring follow-up. Requires strong organization, communication, discretion, multitasking, and time-management skills, with overtime during busy recruiting periods.

Supports attorneys in complex global finance transactions, including commercial lending, securitizations, and corporate finance matters. Responsibilities include U.C.C. filings, Article 9 research, lien analysis, due diligence, drafting ancillary documents, coordinating closings, reviewing transaction documents, and managing post-closing activities. The role requires strong organization, attention to detail, analytical ability, confidentiality, teamwork, and flexibility to work overtime.

Serves as a technical expert for enterprise end-user computing. Designs, implements, automates, maintains, monitors, and supports workstation environments, including endpoint management, software distribution, patching, application deployment, security remediation, hardware configuration, and troubleshooting. Develops automation scripts, documentation, reports, and configuration standards while partnering with IT teams. Participates in workstation technology evaluations, quality assurance testing, and rotating 24x7 on-call support.

Leads firmwide billing development projects, process improvements, system implementations, documentation, training, and stakeholder coordination. Evaluates billing processes, performs root cause analysis, supports technology upgrades, maintains billing knowledge resources, and helps ensure consistent practices across offices. The role requires substantial billing or financial operations experience, legal billing technology knowledge, advanced Excel proficiency, and strong project, analytical, communication, and organizational skills.

Supports recurring HR operations across New York, Boston, and Miami offices. Responsibilities include Workday data audits and transactions, time and attendance reconciliation, new hire orientation logistics, personnel records maintenance, labor law compliance postings, I-9 verification, employee inquiry support, performance appraisal tracking, and recurring HR reporting. The role requires confidentiality, accuracy, strong organization, and effective coordination under supervision.

Leads regional marketing and client engagement strategies for a law firm, including client programs, events, CRM initiatives, rankings submissions, communications, market research, thought leadership, and lawyer profile-raising activities. Manages budgets, cross-functional projects, and potentially a team of marketing professionals while supporting office leadership and business development objectives.

Supports business development and marketing initiatives for assigned practice and industry groups. Prepares proposals, RFP responses, rankings submissions, presentations, collateral, and website content. Conducts client and market research, maintains business development databases and materials, coordinates events, and collaborates with creative and regional marketing teams. Ensures accuracy, consistency, confidentiality, and timely completion across multiple projects and competing priorities.

Supports the firm's public relations strategy by securing media approvals, drafting press releases and talking points, developing story pitches, arranging publishing opportunities, conducting media outreach, monitoring coverage, and preparing data-driven PR reports. The role also coordinates with external agencies, manages administrative projects, and provides strategic insights to inform PR initiatives.

Provides entry-level administrative and project support to attorneys, paralegals, and professional staff in a law firm. Responsibilities include organizing electronic and paper files, conducting non-legal research, maintaining client files and data, and assisting with practice-specific projects. The role requires strong communication, organization, research, analytical, computer, proofreading, confidentiality, and multitasking skills, along with the ability to meet deadlines and complete at least 1,650 billable hours annually.

Processes and audits employee data in Workday and electronic personnel files, manages HR Operations cases, supports I-9 and E-Verify compliance, processes background checks, maintains documentation, responds to employment verification requests, produces reports, and supports system testing. Provides guidance to junior coordinators while safeguarding confidential information and ensuring accurate, efficient, SOP-compliant HR service delivery.

Maintains the firm’s computer hardware and peripherals throughout their lifecycle, including imaging, configuration, deployment, inventory, repair coordination, returns, and disposal. Provides hardware-related technical support, manages loaner equipment, tracks assets in an IT service management system, supports bulk event deployments, and assists users through the hardware support window. The role requires troubleshooting skills, organization, customer service, occasional travel, and the ability to lift equipment weighing up to 40 pounds.

Supports administration, configuration, maintenance, troubleshooting, and enhancement of Microsoft 365 collaboration platforms, especially SharePoint Online, Teams, Exchange Online, and OneDrive. Provides end-user support and training, manages content and permissions, assists with data migrations, analyzes platform usage and data quality, maintains documentation, and collaborates with IT teams on governance, security, compliance, and platform improvements.

Leads the Firm’s information governance program, overseeing records lifecycle management, information classification, access controls, retention, disposition, legal holds, compliance, and document management systems. The role manages NetDocuments administration, resolves complex operational issues, assesses risks, develops policies and training, drives process and technology improvements, and coordinates with legal, technology, and business stakeholders. It also provides team leadership, monitors performance, and reports governance risks and recommendations to senior leadership.

Leads business development and marketing strategy for litigation practice groups, including proposals, pitches, client development, market research, rankings, awards, events, communications, budgets, and cross-selling initiatives. Advises partners, manages marketing infrastructure and collateral, tracks ROI, coordinates firm teams, and supervises junior staff. Requires strong writing, analysis, organization, discretion, and stakeholder-management skills.

Provides high-level administrative, billing, scheduling, document, travel, and practice-group support to attorneys in a global finance practice. Manages competing priorities, calendars, client communications, legal documents, billing deadlines, expense reports, meetings, events, and special projects while coordinating with clients, attorneys, accounting, and business services teams.

Provides onsite audiovisual, collaboration technology, conference room, event, and Level II IT support. Responsibilities include Zoom Room and AV troubleshooting, meeting preparation and live assistance, hardware and software support, mobile and telephony support, asset management, technology deployments, vendor coordination, warranty processing, and incident documentation. The role supports Windows, Microsoft Office, Citrix, VoIP, and related enterprise technologies while maintaining reliable technology experiences for lawyers and staff.

Provides Level II technical support for hardware, software, network, telephony, mobile devices, and enterprise applications. Troubleshoots user incidents, performs imaging and device configuration, manages technology assets, coordinates hardware moves and warranty repairs, supports office moves and technology projects, and maintains IT service records. Requires strong problem-solving, communication, organizational, confidentiality, and multitasking skills.