Jobs at Gibson Dunn

Supports firm-wide recruiting for Global Services and staff positions, including candidate sourcing, screening, referrals, interviews, offers, onboarding, applicant tracking, and recruiting analytics. Partners with hiring managers, advises on hiring practices, maintains recruiting records, manages search-firm relationships, supports applicant testing, and assists with human resources programs while handling confidential information.

Leads business development and strategic marketing for the firm’s Litigation and Regulatory practices. Develops growth strategies, supports lawyers’ visibility initiatives, oversees RFPs, client presentations, relationship reviews, and matter experience collection, and manages marketing, business development, and global proposals teams. Partners with practice leaders and cross-functional teams to drive revenue, execute initiatives, and manage change.

Investigate and respond to security events, alerts, incidents, and user-reported concerns across the firm. Serve as an escalation point and subject matter expert for SIEM, detection, and response technologies; build queries, correlation rules, dashboards, and procedures. Analyze logs, document investigations, support users, and recommend security improvements. Monitor AI-related threats including prompt injection, data exposure, misuse, and AI-assisted attacks while validating AI-generated security findings and automated actions.

Owns and maintains the firm’s M&A and Private Equity forms, drafting resources, and transactional precedent. Reviews materials against legal developments, market practice, firm precedent, and public filings; develops new forms and guidance; coordinates reviews with lawyers and specialists; and manages review cycles. Uses AI-assisted tools and document automation to benchmark, organize, and improve resources while providing substantive legal judgment. Requires substantial M&A or Private Equity drafting and negotiation experience, strong legal research skills, and bar admission.

Designs, architects, and leads delivery of enterprise applications, APIs, platforms, and AI-enabled solutions. Builds agentic workflows, LLM and RAG applications, integrations, data pipelines, and full-stack services across Azure and AWS. Establishes secure engineering, testing, CI/CD, observability, and reliability practices while addressing AI safety and governance. Partners with attorneys, product owners, AI and data teams, and executives to translate complex workflows into scalable solutions, lead architecture, mentor engineers, and drive initiatives from prototype through production.

Leads cloud security architecture, governance, and implementation across Azure, AWS, GCP, and hybrid infrastructure. Designs Zero Trust frameworks, secure landing zones, identity and network controls, threat models, and cloud security testing. Automates controls using Terraform, Python, PowerShell, and policy-as-code, integrates security into CI/CD, manages cloud security platforms, drives remediation and compliance, and mentors engineering teams.

Supports attorneys throughout complex litigation, from case initiation through trial. Responsibilities include case management, court filings, calendaring, discovery, document review and production, cite checking, deposition and trial preparation, document organization, reporting, vendor coordination, and legal research. The role also manages deadlines, client document systems, AI workflow tools, timekeeping, charts, indices, and trial logistics while coordinating with attorneys, clients, vendors, and multidisciplinary teams.

Supports attorneys and paralegal teams throughout complex litigation, from case initiation through trial and appeals. Responsibilities include court filings, appellate records, discovery, document review and production, docket and case management, cite-checking, deposition and trial preparation, oral argument materials, vendor coordination, and timekeeping. The role requires strong litigation knowledge, organization, communication, and proficiency with legal research, document management, eDiscovery, AI, and Microsoft Office tools.

Provides executive and administrative support to partners in a law firm's Real Estate Practice. Responsibilities include scheduling, meeting preparation, correspondence, expense and time-entry processing, client onboarding, billing, relationship management, complex travel coordination, technical assistance, and backup support. The role requires managing competing priorities, confidential information, stakeholder relationships, and overtime in a fast-paced professional services environment.

Coordinates lateral attorney recruiting activities, including interviews, candidate communications, search firm agreements, offer letters, approvals, compensation records, background checks, expenses, and onboarding. Maintains confidential recruiting files and supports recruiting meetings and events. Requires strong organization, judgment, communication, confidentiality, and the ability to manage competing priorities independently in a fast-paced law firm environment.

Provides administrative and logistical support for law student, summer associate, and clerk recruiting programs. Coordinates interviews, events, meetings, schedules, recruiting records, offer letters, expenses, and communications. Maintains recruiting systems and collaborates with Human Resources, Accounting, Diversity & Inclusion, Professional Development, and legal recruiting teams. Requires strong organization, professionalism, confidentiality, computer skills, and flexibility for overtime and evening events.

Develop and deliver risk-focused training for the Conflicts and New Matters group at a global law firm. Responsibilities include assessing training gaps, creating onboarding and procedural resources, maintaining a centralized knowledge repository, evaluating training effectiveness, monitoring compliance, and reviewing analyst work quality. The role supports legal ethics, conflicts analysis, regulatory compliance, system changes, and risk mitigation across offices.

Coordinates attorney transitions including lateral arrivals, secondments, departures, and retirements. Manages timelines, stakeholders, conflicts and intake processes, matter openings, data transfers, communications, and transition documentation. Supports secondment lifecycle management and provides concierge-level assistance to incoming laterals. Maintains trackers and dashboards, analyzes process data, recommends improvements, and ensures information governance procedures are followed. Acts as a project coordinator and subject matter expert across multiple law firm business-services functions.

Runs and analyzes conflicts searches for lateral attorney candidates by reviewing matter lists, researching corporate structures, searching internal databases, and preparing reports for Conflicts Attorneys. Identifies potential conflicts, supports ethical screens, maintains audit-ready records, coordinates with recruiting and conflicts teams, and escalates complex issues. The role requires strong research, analytical, organizational, communication, confidentiality, and customer service skills in a fast-paced law firm environment.

Lead complex federal, state, and Delaware Court of Chancery litigation matters from inception through trial and appeal. Manage case files, discovery, filings, deadlines, e-discovery, hearings, trials, research, and communications with counsel and vendors. Coordinate expedited schedules and Delaware filings, oversee junior support staff, maintain calendaring and document systems, and ensure compliance with court rules and procedures. The role requires substantial securities or commercial litigation experience, including significant Delaware Chancery experience.

Supervises information governance operations and builds a dedicated data transfer function. Coordinates distributed team workflows, manages intake and transfer queues, handles escalated governance matters, maintains chain-of-custody documentation, and reports service levels and capacity. Develops procedures, trains staff, supports platform implementation, and oversees records disposition, iManage remediation, legacy-platform retirement, matter mobility, and attorney departure or arrival workflows.

Leads the U.S. conflicts attorneys team and oversees conflicts clearance for new clients, matters, and lateral hires. Resolves complex professional responsibility issues, advises partners and firm leadership, manages ethical screens, negotiates waivers, develops policies and training, monitors service levels, and improves conflicts technology and workflows. Requires attorney admission, substantial large-law-firm conflicts experience, team leadership, and expertise with ABA rules and Intapp or equivalent systems.

Provides high-level administrative and practice coordination support to corporate law firm partners. Responsibilities include scheduling, meeting materials, correspondence, technical assistance, expenses, time entries, client onboarding, billing, relationship management, complex travel arrangements, and backup support. The role requires discretion, initiative, strong communication, multitasking, independent judgment, and close collaboration across departments. It is an in-office Monday-Friday position with overtime as needed.

Designs, builds, and operates enterprise data lakes, warehouses, lakehouses, ETL/ELT pipelines, databases, and reporting platforms. Prepares governed, model-ready data for AI and machine learning, supports feature stores and embedding workflows, administers relational databases, optimizes queries and dashboards, and ensures data quality, security, availability, and disaster recovery. Collaborates with technical and business teams, reports to senior management, and mentors data engineers.

Oversee full-cycle recruitment for high-level staff positions across global services departments. Responsibilities include sourcing, screening, hiring-manager partnership, agency management, offer negotiation, onboarding coordination, ATS administration, compliance, and recruiting metrics. The recruiter will develop strategic talent plans, improve candidate and hiring-manager experiences, maintain recruiting records, and lead process initiatives.