Jobs at McDermott Will & Schulte

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.

Lead creative vision and delivery for McDermott events from intimate gatherings to 2,000+ attendee signature events. Design immersive physical and digital experiences, oversee digital assets and on-site branding, manage creative workflows and timelines, brief and direct internal designers and external vendors, and ensure cohesive, on-brand execution on time and on budget.

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.

Manages business development for the Transactions practice, partnering with attorneys to expand client relationships, increase revenue, and strengthen brand recognition. Leads business development staff and processes, identifies growth and cross-selling opportunities, oversees proposals and RFPs, supports lateral partner integration, manages budgets, advises attorneys on business plans, coordinates events, reviews marketing collateral, and monitors market trends.

Reviews and transfers client data during attorney departures, protecting client privilege, firm proprietary information, and intellectual property. Uses Relativity, eDiscovery, data management, artificial intelligence, and analytics tools to prepare, search, review, code, and automate document workflows. Develops transfer protocols, documents review processes, researches emerging technologies, maintains quality, and manages transition timelines and communications.

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.

Leads business development and marketing initiatives for corporate transactional practices. Responsibilities include client targeting, RFPs and pitches, lateral onboarding, cross-selling strategies, market research, events, sponsorships, legal directory submissions, proposal collateral, direct-report management, and budget oversight. The role partners with lawyers and marketing teams across markets and geographies while managing multiple priorities and supporting practice growth.

Executes law student recruiting and summer associate programs for assigned offices. Builds relationships with law schools and student organizations, manages interviews and offers, coordinates outreach and sponsorships, oversees 10-week summer programs, maintains ATS data, generates recruiting reports, manages budgets, and supports firm-wide recruiting initiatives and process improvements. Requires coordination with hiring partners, recruiting committees, and internal stakeholders while following NALP rules and school policies.

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.

Lead business development for Tax, Employee Benefits, and Private Client Services: set strategy, manage BD team, create go-to-market and cross-sell plans, leverage market research and CRM, coordinate with firm marketing, and drive revenue-generating client initiatives.

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.

Lead and execute business development for transactions: target clients, draft RFPs and pitches, onboard lateral hires, identify cross-selling opportunities, perform strategic research, coordinate events and sponsorships, manage team performance and budget, track results, and support PR, rankings, and proposal collateral.