Jobs at Goodwin

Coordinates client-facing events, conferences, sponsorships, webinars, dinners, and related business development initiatives for life sciences and healthcare industry groups. Manages logistics, invitations, vendors, attendance tracking, CRM data, post-event follow-up, feedback, ROI analysis, and reporting. Collaborates with attorneys, clients, internal teams, conference organizers, and external partners to strengthen relationships, maximize sponsorship value, and improve engagement strategies.

Manages lateral partner recruiting searches from launch through onboarding, including market research, candidate assessment, communications, interviews, diligence, approvals, and transition planning. Coordinates with firm leaders, practice management, finance, conflicts, integration, and search firms. Maintains pipelines, reports, recruiting materials, and confidential records while tracking deadlines, risks, and dependencies. Supports value propositions, candidate presentations, process improvements, and informed recruiting and practice-development decisions.

Supports onboarding and employee integration programs, inclusion and belonging initiatives, stakeholder communications, and culture-building efforts. Coordinates onboarding sessions, resources, feedback, and process improvements while supporting Inclusion Network leadership teams and firmwide programming. Prepares presentations, reports, project documentation, and communications; analyzes data and helps implement technology, automation, and change initiatives. Also provides scheduling, budget, invoice, vendor, and administrative support.

Lead client development for the global Life Sciences practice by identifying growth opportunities, managing pitches and RFPs, crafting strategic marketing materials, conducting market and competitive research, supporting rankings and awards submissions, and enabling cross-selling. Partner with attorneys and internal teams to strengthen client relationships and business development strategies. Mentor team members and translate industry insights, data, and emerging technologies into actionable recommendations.

Supports business operations across industry and practice groups at a global law firm. Responsibilities include coordinating strategic and operational initiatives, managing meetings and information, tracking budgets and expenses, improving business processes, overseeing compliance reminders and time policies, and facilitating cross-functional projects. The role requires strong organization, communication, technology skills, judgment, confidentiality, project management, and adaptability across multiple stakeholder groups.

Leads the strategy, operating model, talent lifecycle, technology enablement, performance, and daily execution of paralegal services across a global law firm. Designs practice-specific delivery models, improves workflows and quality, develops managers and career paths, establishes performance metrics, oversees case assistants, drives AI and automation adoption, and partners with attorneys and firm leadership to improve service delivery and scalability.

Conducts in-depth legal and business research for attorneys and administrative teams, synthesizes findings, advises on research strategies, manages research projects, and evaluates information resources. Develops training curricula, delivers onboarding, monitors legal-industry developments and emerging AI research technologies, maintains newsletters and intranet content, and recommends resource purchases. Requires expert knowledge of legal and business research platforms, strong communication skills, and the ability to manage competing priorities independently and collaboratively.

Leads paralegal and case assistant services across staffing, workforce planning, performance management, training, recruiting, and service delivery. Partners with attorneys and business teams to improve workflows, adopt legal technology and AI, standardize processes, share knowledge, and enhance operational scalability. Uses staffing, utilization, demand, and performance data to guide decisions while coaching teams and driving continuous improvement across offices.

Provides administrative and logistical support for legal recruiting, especially lateral associate hiring. Maintains candidate records and recruiting databases, coordinates interviews, communicates with candidates and search firms, manages files and expenses, compiles evaluations, and supports conflicts, background checks, onboarding, recruiting materials, and related projects.

Coordinates law-firm audit inquiry responses, including information gathering, disclosure analysis, drafting, deadline management, and collaboration with attorneys and Finance. Supports conflicts clearance by reviewing business intake, conducting conflicts searches, analyzing ethical and business risks, advising stakeholders, researching professional responsibility requirements, and preparing waivers, ethical screens, and engagement language. Also contributes to policy development, training, process improvement, and departmental projects.

Leads Goodwin’s global Client Engagements Center of Excellence, setting strategy, operating models, governance, investment priorities, and measurement frameworks. Oversees a worldwide portfolio of client engagements, events, and sponsorships, connecting relationship-building activities to growth, pipeline, and revenue outcomes. Partners with business development, marketing, technology, and industry teams to improve client experiences, establish scalable standards, drive change adoption, and develop a high-performing global team.

Lead and manage the firm's research function and Research Analyst team to deliver timely, accurate legal, business, and competitive intelligence. Oversee intake, triage, quality review, tool adoption, vendor/subscription coordination, documentation, metrics/reporting, and cross‑functional partnerships to support attorneys and firm initiatives while improving processes and ensuring continuity.