Jobs at McDermott Will & Schulte

Leads the firm's integrated content and thought leadership strategy, overseeing editorial planning, flagship reports, articles, case studies, multimedia content, and third-party partnerships. Advises senior stakeholders, translates complex legal and market trends into compelling narratives, establishes editorial standards, and uses analytics and AI to improve content performance and efficiency. Manages and develops an internal content team while coordinating agencies and contractors across marketing, communications, business development, and firm leadership.

Prepares standard and ad hoc financial reports, analyzes practice group and attorney profitability, supports monthly reporting packages, investigates financial inquiries, audits system data, assists with budgeting and lateral hire analysis, and maintains financial reporting tools. The role collaborates with financial managers, senior management, and cross-functional teams while ensuring accurate and timely reporting.

Researches and processes conflict-of-interest searches for prospective clients, matters, and lateral partner transfers. The analyst audits conflict database records, researches firm clients using commercial platforms, analyzes search results, and communicates findings to conflicts attorneys and firm stakeholders. The role also provides support to attorneys and secretaries, troubleshoots database issues, maintains confidential information, and prioritizes competing requests under tight deadlines in a global law firm.

Leads firmwide sales technology enablement by designing role-specific Salesforce training, onboarding, tutorials, and ongoing learning programs. Partners with Salesforce administration, Commercial Excellence, and firm leadership to improve CRM adoption, business development capabilities, dashboards, and client engagement. Advises users, manages Salesforce LMS content, identifies training needs, tracks adoption and engagement metrics, and continuously optimizes enablement programs.

Prepares financial reports, analyzes budget and forecast variances, supports expense managers and directors, conducts budget reviews, maintains financial reporting tools, develops automated and ad-hoc reports, resolves financial inquiries, audits system data, and supports monthly operations reporting.

Supports legal teams and business operations by gathering and documenting requirements, analyzing processes, designing workflows, evaluating solutions, and measuring usability. Collaborates with IT and stakeholders on estimates, project planning, communications, training, and change management. Uses AI tools to accelerate requirements gathering, prototyping, process analysis, and documentation while validating outputs. Presents findings and prototypes to technical and non-technical audiences and identifies opportunities to improve efficiency through AI.

Own the full QA lifecycle for AI-powered legal solutions, including unit, integration, system, regression, performance, scalability, and security testing. Partner with analysts and engineers to generate edge-case tests, validate AI outputs, integrate automated test suites into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, track defects, maintain documentation, and report quality metrics. The role also promotes quality practices across the development workflow and evaluates solution reliability under real-world conditions.

Process and audit attorney and business professional payrolls in Workday, validating earnings, deductions, taxes, reconciliations, journal entries, and payroll reports. Investigate discrepancies, ensure legal and internal-control compliance, respond to employee inquiries, maintain documentation, and collaborate with HR and Accounting. The role also supports process improvements, technology adoption, and accurate general ledger reporting while protecting confidential information.

Administer and communicate attorney compensation and promotion programs, including schedules, policies, reporting, data analysis, tools, documents, presentations, and event logistics. Coordinate with firm leaders, compensation committees, attorneys, and accounting teams while maintaining confidential information. Monitor market compensation trends, support process changes, and provide financial metrics and decision-support data. The role requires strong organization, communication, analytical, project management, and collaboration skills in a fast-paced environment.

Supports global lateral partner and counsel recruiting by coordinating candidate interviews, evaluations, due diligence, hiring pipelines, recruitment agencies, stakeholders, and end-stage offer documentation. The role advances strategic hiring initiatives, resolves issues, maintains confidentiality, and ensures an efficient, high-quality candidate experience while collaborating with firm leadership and recruiting partners.

Provides administrative support for lateral partner and counsel recruiting, including applicant tracking system updates, interview scheduling, candidate communications, expense processing, onboarding coordination, feedback tracking, recruiting metrics, file maintenance, and event logistics. The role supports Talent Acquisition Coordinators, handles confidential information, responds to routine inquiries, and assists with recruiting projects and internal communications under established guidelines.

Manages information governance, risk, and compliance initiatives focused on attorney and client onboarding, offboarding, client transfers, legal holds, and electronically stored information. Coordinates data identification, collection, classification, transfer, metadata accuracy, repository tracking, security controls, and workspace access. Supports attorneys and business teams, resolves policy inquiries, develops compliance procedures and educational materials, and contributes to technology workflows, integrations, analytics, and internal controls.

Oversee the security of firm applications, networks, systems, hardware, and mobile devices throughout their lifecycles. Develop security requirements and architecture, manage controls and configurations, perform certification and accreditation, maintain asset inventories, and ensure secure development and acquisition practices. Collaborate across departments and mentor team members while serving as a primary technical security contact. The role requires independent judgment, strong analytical ability, knowledge of security frameworks and technologies, and at least seven years of related experience.

The Knowledge and Innovation Counsel leads AI and knowledge management initiatives for assigned legal practice groups. Responsibilities include identifying use cases, guiding attorneys on AI tools, customizing prompts and workflows, curating precedents and playbooks, delivering legal and technology training, analyzing adoption data, supporting solution development, monitoring legal technology developments, and representing innovation priorities to firm leadership. The role also mentors junior knowledge professionals and partners with attorneys, clients, and technology teams.

Provides strategic leadership for U.S. accounting operations, financial reporting, general ledger integrity, accounting governance, internal controls, and compliance. Develops accounting strategy, oversees accounting standards and reporting processes, monitors financial performance and risks, and leads cross-functional transformation involving systems, workflows, reporting platforms, and data governance. Drives continuous improvement, strengthens controls, and partners with leadership to improve financial insights and operational effectiveness.

Manage and improve Contract-to-Cash systems (billing, A/R, collections, revenue management) through operational support, roadmap ownership, process discovery, requirements definition, vendor management, automation/AI pilots, system enhancements, testing, deployment, controls alignment, and metrics-driven continuous improvement across accounting and finance functions.

Provides legal support throughout employment litigation, including case-file management, legal research, discovery, document preparation and filing, cite checking, docketing, trial preparation, exhibit and witness coordination, courtroom logistics, and post-trial filings. The role works with attorneys, courts, clients, vendors, and government agencies while handling confidential information and meeting tight deadlines.

Support the business development team by preparing RFP responses, maintaining CRM and matter tracking, coordinating events and webinars, creating BD collateral, compiling client and market research, and providing administrative and project support to attorneys.