Jobs at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Supports the Legal Talent team with recruiting, professional development, engagement, and internal event planning. Coordinates logistics, communications, vendors, materials, RSVPs, calendars, invoices, databases, onsite production, feedback, and post-event reporting. Handles confidential information and provides administrative support across talent-focused programs. A bachelor's degree is required; prior experience is not required, though relevant administrative, event planning, recruiting, or talent development experience is preferred.

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.

Performs entry-level litigation docketing and calendaring, tracks case deadlines, monitors court filings, conducts docket searches, performs quality checks, assists with electronic filing, communicates with attorneys and courts, retrieves legal documents, and supports litigation operations.

Coordinates recruiting, professional development, engagement, and other Legal Talent events from planning through post-event follow-up. Manages venues, invitations, communications, RSVPs, materials, catering, transportation, vendors, calendars, attendance records, surveys, and onsite logistics. Supports recruiting and summer associate programs, orientation, training, and employee engagement initiatives while maintaining documentation, inventory, and reporting. Requires strong organization, communication, discretion, and the ability to manage multiple deadlines.

Coordinates domestic and international corporate travel, complex itineraries, executive car services, group travel, and urgent travel changes. Serves as a liaison among travelers, firm stakeholders, the travel management company, and vendors. Ensures policy compliance, cost control, traveler safety, and service quality while supporting disruptions, billing issues, crisis response, meetings, events, and supplier performance tracking.

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.

The Senior Billing Coordinator manages high-volume attorney billing for a large law firm. Responsibilities include preparing and reviewing pre-bills, processing complex invoices, applying retainers, handling write-offs and electronic billing, researching billing data, preparing schedules and partner reports, resolving e-billing and accounts receivable issues, and communicating with attorneys, clients, and staff. The role also mentors new coordinators, attends billing meetings, and supports special projects.

Leads the architecture, development, and optimization of production-grade machine learning infrastructure on Azure. Designs scalable training and inference environments, implements MLOps practices, automates ML workflows, and establishes reusable deployment frameworks. Partners with data science, DevOps, and platform engineering teams to productionize models, strengthen security and observability, and ensure reliable, compliant systems. Mentors junior engineers and drives ML infrastructure strategy across multiple use cases.

Designs, builds, and operates full-stack software, infrastructure, and AI-powered legal technology systems. Responsibilities include developing applications and integrations, managing cloud infrastructure and CI/CD, implementing observability and reliability practices, contributing to AI/LLM solutions, establishing frontend design systems, and collaborating with attorneys, data scientists, IT, and other stakeholders.

Develops statistical, machine learning, deep learning, and NLP solutions for legal and administrative teams. Responsibilities include building regression and classification models, fine-tuning language models, creating RAG pipelines, designing AI workflows, analyzing structured and unstructured data, producing visual reports, and deploying reproducible production systems. The role collaborates with lawyers, business departments, and technical teams to advance the firm’s AI capabilities and deliver actionable insights.

Provides on-site, white-glove IT support for a law firm office, including troubleshooting hardware, software, networks, telecommunications, audiovisual equipment, and mobile devices. Maintains service records, documentation, inventories, and knowledge-base content; coordinates installations, office moves, upgrades, events, and remote setups. Supports VIP users, escalates complex issues, collaborates with global IT teams, and provides service reporting. Requires schedule flexibility for occasional after-hours and weekend support.

Conduct qualitative and quantitative UX research for attorneys and clients across digital products. Lead recruitment, study design, data collection, analysis, and reporting; create personas, journey maps, service blueprints, and user flows; maintain research repositories; translate insights into business requirements; collaborate on AI product adoption and analyze usage data.

Supports legal recruiting and associate life programs, including law school and lateral interviews, candidate coordination, recruiting events, summer associate programming, orientations, mentoring, database maintenance, and expense tracking. The role manages schedules, vendors, records, communications, attorney support, and event logistics while providing administrative support to the Legal Talent department. It requires flexibility during recruiting seasons, strong organization, discretion, communication skills, and occasional work at alternate Bay Area offices.

Build, test, deploy, and govern AI workflows for M&A transactions using legal technology tools. Translate M&A legal reasoning into reliable AI logic, evaluate outputs, manage datasets and testing frameworks, advise on AI governance and professional responsibility, train attorneys, assess new technologies, and lead AI adoption across the practice.

Owns strategy, roadmap, governance, release management, vendor relationships, adoption, and ROI for enterprise generative AI platforms. Partners with legal, technology, security, governance, and business teams to evaluate features, manage risk, develop workflows, coordinate deployments, and drive responsible adoption. Tracks platform performance and business value, supports users, manages releases and escalations, and provides executive recommendations on roadmap, investment, and AI enablement.