Jobs at DLA Piper

Coordinates career opportunities and alumni programs, including candidate and alumni data management, attorney transition tracking, opportunity postings, engagement events, communications, reporting, and intranet content. Provides administrative and project support, improves workflows using technology and AI tools, and collaborates with marketing, communications, business development, talent development, leadership, lawyers, and external stakeholders.

Leads the firm’s employment compliance function by monitoring employment laws, governing HR policies, managing audits and risk mitigation, overseeing mandatory training, preparing statutory filings and compliance reports, and aligning HR systems with legal requirements. Partners with HR, Payroll, Benefits, HR Technology, leadership, and legal stakeholders to implement policy updates, identify compliance gaps, and strengthen processes. The role requires extensive HR compliance expertise, strong communication, organizational skills, and the ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.

Manages client billing operations for a law firm, including global billing processes, monthly close, reporting, issue resolution, client and attorney escalations, and ServiceNow ticket queues. Leads and develops Client Account Analysts, provides training and performance feedback, tracks service metrics, and implements process improvements. Partners with stakeholders to establish billing best practices and leads related projects while ensuring timely, accurate service delivery.

Supports DLA Piper’s Restructuring Practice by researching distressed debt, restructuring, and stressed investment opportunities. Develops target lists, financial and statistical models, monitoring tools, and market analyses. Tracks economic developments, news, SEC filings, and other data sources to identify opportunities and risks. Presents findings to restructuring partners and leadership, collaborates with business development, coordinates review meetings, and improves data retrieval and reporting processes.

The Of Counsel will lead litigation efforts, especially in pharmaceutical/medical device cases, drafting legal documents, supervising associates, and developing strategies.

Leads DLA Piper’s Global Private Markets initiative by coordinating practices and regions, identifying growth opportunities, developing client targeting and cross-selling strategies, supporting strategic pitches, and providing market intelligence. The role also oversees thought leadership, communications, executive reporting, internal engagement, and performance tracking to strengthen the firm’s position with private capital clients.

Design, build, and operate Azure-based data pipelines and integrations. Consolidate data from multiple sources into centralized SQL systems, perform transformations and field mapping, and maintain data warehouse capabilities. Troubleshoot quality, integrity, latency, security, and reliability issues while applying governance, monitoring, and SLA practices. Collaborate with engineers, analysts, and stakeholders in Agile pods to deliver reusable, analytics-ready data assets.

Develops business intelligence products and analytics supporting strategic decision-making across the firm. Responsibilities include client profitability and segmentation analysis, growth and margin analysis, reusable data models, KPI governance, executive dashboards, automated reporting, and self-service analytics. Partners with Finance, Revenue, Business Development, Pricing, Technology, and other stakeholders to translate financial, market, operational, and client data into actionable insights while maintaining reporting quality and consistency.

Supports business development and marketing initiatives for a litigation and regulatory practice group. Responsibilities include preparing pitches, proposals, presentations, and marketing collateral; maintaining CRM records and activity reports; coordinating directories, awards, events, webinars, and sponsorships; tracking budgets and matters; supporting lawyer onboarding; and collaborating with design, communications, digital, lawyers, and BD teams.

The Chief Information Security Officer leads DLA Piper’s enterprise cybersecurity strategy, governance, risk management, incident response, data protection, third-party security, security awareness, and operational resilience programs. The role advises executives and governance bodies, oversees security controls and emerging technology risk, translates technical risks into business and legal impacts, and builds a high-performing global information security organization. The CISO also manages security policies, audits, regulatory and client obligations, vendor oversight, budgets, talent development, and executive communications.

Review and manage Outside Counsel Guidelines and engagement terms, identify problematic provisions, propose and negotiate modifications, coordinate stakeholder feedback (OGC, Finance, InfoSec, Privacy, HR), maintain OCG playbook and tracking systems, serve as Intapp subject matter expert, and ensure engagement letter policy compliance.

The role supports marketing and business development efforts for the Data Privacy, Protection and Security, and Labor & Employment areas, collaborating on various initiatives and managing marketing content.

The Corporate M&A Associate will execute mergers and acquisitions transactions, focusing on legal research, drafting agreements, client interaction, and compliance while managing complex cases from inception to resolution.

The associate will primarily work with emerging growth companies and institutional investors, focusing on venture capital financings and M&A transactions, while managing complex transactions and providing legal support and compliance.

The Disputes Pursuits & Directories Manager leads business development initiatives by managing RFP responses, collaborating with stakeholders, and enhancing proposal processes to secure new business for the firm.

Lead strategy and delivery for enterprise software engineering and systems integration. Set architecture and engineering standards, manage multi-team portfolios, drive CI/CD, observability, security and operational excellence, oversee budgets and vendors, and develop senior technical management to deliver scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.

Builds, manages, monitors, secures, and operates enterprise infrastructure, cloud systems, applications, and integration points. Responsibilities include hands-on configuration, documentation, disaster recovery planning and testing, system monitoring, maintenance, upgrades, patching, capacity planning, vendor participation, and escalated incident resolution. The role diagnoses root causes, supports high availability and stability, contributes to security and business continuity, and participates in a 24x7 on-call rotation.

Serve as a servant-leader and Agile coach to improve delivery flow and team effectiveness across value streams. Facilitate ceremonies, remove impediments, track Agile metrics (WIP, cycle time), enable prioritization with TPMs/QA, foster collaboration, and drive continuous improvement without owning scope or budget.

Lead SecOps functions including threat detection, alert triage, incident response, vulnerability and configuration management, endpoint and network security operations, threat hunting, malware analysis, vendor management, and mentoring a team of security analysts to improve detection and response capabilities.

Support paralegals and attorneys by organizing transaction files, preparing closing checklists and books, compiling executed documents, performing database and public-records research, obtaining signatures, and assisting with mailings, filings, and closings.