Jobs at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

The Conflicts Attorney advises on conflicts of interest, new business intake, client due diligence, professional conduct, and regulatory compliance. Responsibilities include reviewing prospective clients and matters, advising on conflicts provisions and waivers, supporting lateral onboarding and information barriers, researching legal requirements, assisting with policies and audits, and contributing to intake software and process improvements. The role collaborates with attorneys, business teams, compliance professionals, and firm leadership across jurisdictions.

Manage general and lateral conflicts clearance, new business intake, client due diligence, onboarding, matter openings, and client transfers. Advise on conflicts, professional conduct, regulatory compliance, information barriers, and risk management. Review engagement terms and waivers, conduct legal and external research, support audits and reporting, advise analysts and lawyers, and help implement intake systems, policies, and process improvements.

Manage full-cycle recruiting for business services, law student, and lateral attorney searches. Responsibilities include sourcing, screening, interview coordination, offer preparation, candidate and hiring-manager communication, market research, salary benchmarking, recruiting process improvement, and maintaining records in Workday and Flo Recruit. The role requires compliant selection practices, strong stakeholder relationships, discretion, and occasional travel to law schools, conferences, and firm offices.

Associate to advise on complex financing transactions including securitizations, asset-based finance, and structured finance. Structure and negotiate bespoke deals with banks, investors, and issuers. Requires New York Bar admission and several years of law firm experience. Member of the Finance & Restructuring team in New York, full-time permanent role.

Supports legal and business research services across US offices by conducting research, producing current-awareness newsletters, managing library collections and catalog records, coordinating procurement and vendors, delivering research training, resolving access issues, processing invoices, and assisting with administrative and operational projects.

Work on acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures for private equity funds, institutional investors and strategic companies. Lead transactions, draft definitive agreements, and manage all aspects of deals from negotiation through closing. Collaborate with corporate team members and clients on complex M&A matters. Must be admitted to the New York Bar.

Provide technical and functional support for Aderant financial systems and related applications. Troubleshoot issues, perform maintenance, ensure data integrity, develop and run ad hoc SQL queries, produce SSRS and Power BI reports/dashboards, and support users and integrations to enable accurate financial reporting and cost recovery.

Provide technology transaction counsel including drafting and negotiating software, licensing, development, services, manufacturing, supply, distribution, and media agreements; apply strong IP law knowledge; assist on M&A and equity financings and IP due diligence. Must be admitted to the New York Bar.

Advise public and private companies on executive compensation and employee benefits matters including M&A, equity and equity-based plans, bonus plans, and nonqualified deferred compensation. Collaborate with corporate, bankruptcy, employment law, and tax teams. Prior law firm experience in these practice areas and New York Bar admission required; experience with qualified retirement, health, and welfare plans is a plus.

Law firm associate role advising on derivatives and structured products. Requires 3–5 years handling derivatives/structured products trading documentation, complex OTC derivatives, structured financing and leverage arrangements, and related regulatory matters. Position based in New York within the Finance & Restructuring team; applicants must be admitted to the New York Bar.

Provide legal compliance, procedural guidance, and operational oversight across U.S. departments. Oversee court and agency filings, manage e-filing operations and vendor relationships, supervise support staff, support onboarding and process improvements, manage pro hac vice admissions, and advise attorneys on procedural strategy and docketing across jurisdictions.

Provide 24x7 support for client-facing systems with focus on data quality, reliability, and integrations. Design and build Intapp Integrate integrations, develop SQL for extraction/reconciliation, script automation (PowerShell/Python/C#), deploy and maintain applications, perform testing, monitoring, performance tuning, documentation, and stakeholder collaboration to meet business requirements and ensure secure, scalable data workflows.