Jobs at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Serves as the firm’s front-of-house contact for clients, visitors, candidates, and colleagues. Responsibilities include visitor registration, calls and digital communications, room and desk bookings, meeting-room and audiovisual support, catering and courier coordination, facilities requests, office upkeep, onboarding assistance, and front-office security awareness. The role requires professional communication, customer service, organization, discretion, multitasking, and proficiency with Microsoft 365.

Provides administrative support to the Fiduciary/Personal Planning group, including maintaining client, docket, entity, referral, and vault records; preparing legal documents and client packages; coordinating meetings; assisting with client matters, notarizations, court filings, and special projects.

Leads global client development for funds practices at an international law firm. Responsibilities include strategic pitches, proposals, client plans, market intelligence, event strategy, sponsorships, budgets, process improvements, CRM and database initiatives, and cross-functional collaboration. Advises partners and practice leaders on growth, positioning, and relationship development while supervising and mentoring CDE team members.

Performs staff-level accounting activities, including journal entries, general ledger analysis, balance sheet and bank reconciliations, disbursement processing, escrow accounting, online banking transactions, cash reporting, and monthly close activities. The role requires communication with accounting teams, accuracy, organization, and deadline management.

Supports capital projects across planning, design, procurement, construction, and closeout. Coordinates schedules, budgets, invoices, meetings, documentation, vendors, contractors, and cross-functional stakeholders. Tracks risks, issues, dependencies, action items, and project governance materials while assisting with reporting, data analysis, and executive presentations. Ensures projects comply with firm policies, procedures, and design standards.

Supervises a pooled administrative support team serving attorneys. Responsibilities include managing standardized workflows, coverage plans, workload allocation, escalations, performance reviews, coaching, onboarding, training, reporting, and continuous process improvement. The role promotes ServiceNow adoption, resolves service issues, coordinates with HR and firm leadership, and ensures consistent administrative support delivery and accountability.

Provides on-site, white-glove IT support for office users and VIPs, troubleshooting hardware, software, network, telephone, mobile, printer, and AV issues. Maintains service records, knowledge documentation, equipment inventories, and reports. Coordinates installations, imaging, upgrades, office moves, events, conferences, and remote setups while collaborating with global IT teams. Requires strong customer service, discretion, judgment, communication, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a high-pressure environment.

Leads firm-wide pricing strategy, fee proposals, alternative fee arrangements, matter budgeting, financial modeling, profitability analysis, and pricing performance reporting. Advises partners and senior leadership, supports client negotiations and RFPs, manages a pricing team, oversees pricing tools and databases, and drives process improvements, technology adoption, training, and best-practice implementation across the firm.

Supports strategic client development and business growth for the firm’s Energy and Infrastructure Practice. Responsibilities include leading pitches, proposals, RFPs, credentials, directory submissions, market research, go-to-market initiatives, client materials, events, and cross-practice coordination. The role manages business development projects, maintains sector resources, supports partner meetings, and coaches junior team members while delivering high-quality work under tight deadlines.

Develops and supports pricing strategy through fee proposals, financial modeling, matter budgeting, variance analysis, reporting, and partner support. Maintains pricing databases and tools, improves workflows, and supports RFPs and client negotiations. Builds AI-enabled pricing workflows using Claude and Harvey, validates AI outputs, and promotes responsible adoption. Requires strong financial analysis, communication, process management, legal-services pricing knowledge, and cross-functional collaboration.

Lead the enterprise AI Security Program by designing and implementing security standards, controls, guardrails, governance, automation, and monitoring for LLMs, AI platforms, agents, gateways, and AI-enabled applications. Partner with application security, engineering, privacy, compliance, and operations teams to address threats such as prompt injection, jailbreaks, data exposure, excessive agency, and adversarial attacks. Provide technical leadership, threat modeling, security architecture guidance, and maturity reporting.

Analyzes conflicts of interest and new-business intake requests for a global law firm. The role researches prospective clients and matters, applies ethical and firm rules, prepares waivers, verifies party information, assesses risks, and coordinates with attorneys and staff to resolve conflicts accurately and efficiently.

Supports legal recruiting and associate life programs by coordinating interviews, campus outreach, recruiting events, summer associate activities, orientations, mentoring assignments, and lateral hiring logistics. Maintains candidate, associate, vendor, expense, and event records; schedules meetings; prepares materials; coordinates vendors; tracks feedback and RSVPs; and provides administrative support to attorneys, recruiting teams, and associates.

Coordinates training, orientations, onboarding, meetings, events, and administrative operations for a legal Research and Insights department. The role develops training materials, promotes research resources, maintains intranet and document repositories, supports workflow improvements, and collaborates with attorneys, researchers, professional development staff, and administrative teams. It requires strong organization, communication, project management, digital technology, and confidentiality skills, with legal or professional services experience preferred.

Leads strategy, operations, transformation, technology, and talent management across a Legal Talent function. Responsibilities include strategic planning, process improvement, project and vendor management, budgeting, data reporting, executive communications, AI and technology transformation, recruiting, onboarding, training, job architecture, and change management. The role partners with senior leaders and cross-functional teams to improve efficiency, standardize processes, and drive continuous improvement in a complex professional services environment.

Manages staffing, utilization, workload allocation, performance management, professional development, recruiting, onboarding, and daily operations for litigation and corporate paralegal teams. Partners with attorneys, practice directors, human resources, and other stakeholders to balance workloads, improve workflows, coordinate reporting and budgets, and support team effectiveness. Leads process improvement and adoption of automation and AI tools while addressing performance, communication, training, and engagement needs.

Oversee lateral and campus attorney recruiting for the Chicago office, including recruitment strategy, law school events, interviews, offers, and summer associate programs. Manage associate orientation, integration, mentoring, work assignments, events, training support, exit interviews, and office staffing coordination. Partner with HR and firm leadership on talent, wellness, inclusion, and development initiatives while managing budgets and confidential personnel matters.

Assists attorneys with private fund formation, fundraising, subscription documents, investor onboarding, fund closings, secondary transfers, side letters, AML/KYC reviews, and ongoing fund compliance. Drafts and reviews fund-related agreements, tracks investor documentation, coordinates with clients and investors, and compiles key fund records. Requires a J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school and admission to the local bar.

Designs, builds, deploys, and operationalizes enterprise generative AI solutions, including LLM applications, RAG architectures, autonomous agents, MCP servers, and AI integrations. Partners with stakeholders, engineering, infrastructure, security, and data teams to deliver secure, governed, scalable AI systems. Develops AI tools and workflows, optimizes data processes, provides architectural guidance, and supports high-impact business use cases.

Supports the Legal Talent Department through attorney review processes, onboarding, leave administration, relocations, immigration processing, flexible work arrangements, and personnel reporting. Coordinates with attorneys, partners, immigration counsel, Benefits, and Workday support teams while maintaining confidential records, tracking charts, and department databases. The role also assists with orientations, reporting improvements, inter-office communications, and related administrative activities.