Jobs at Milbank LLP

Protects enterprise data across cloud and on-premises environments by designing and operating DLP, classification, encryption, rights management, and AI data leakage controls. Investigates incidents, monitors SIEM/CASB/DLP alerts, supports insider-threat response, conducts risk assessments, maintains audit evidence, and contributes to AI governance. Develops PowerShell, Python, and KQL automation while integrating controls into CI/CD, SaaS onboarding, and identity workflows.

Manages the firm’s staff attorney program, including attorney assignments, staffing coordination, quality assurance, training, onboarding, performance reviews, and administration. Oversees litigation discovery and document-review projects, workflow design, technology-assisted review, staffing recommendations, and quality-control processes. Advises attorneys and case teams on discovery resources, coordinates with HR and contingent staffing suppliers, and maintains program records.

The Associate Director will monitor and analyze firmwide AI usage, identify adoption barriers and capability gaps, and translate findings into enablement strategies. The role partners with technology, professional development, and IT teams on analytics, training, support, and responsible AI compliance. It also builds relationships across legal practices and business services to identify practical AI use cases, improve adoption, and inform broader solutions and communications.

Translates legal and business needs into practical AI solutions, partnering with attorneys, business services, IT, and knowledge teams. The role designs workflows, builds solutions using approved AI platforms, evaluates emerging legal technologies, manages supplier relationships, measures adoption and ROI, and advises firm leadership on AI strategy. It also supports attorney and client-facing AI communications and monitors developments across the legal AI market.

Develops and oversees quality controls, responsible AI standards, and safeguards for legal AI use. Advises on professional responsibility, regulatory guidance, privacy, client obligations, and ethical boundaries. Partners with IT, the Office of General Counsel, attorneys, and AI developers to implement compliant solutions, monitor usage costs, and ensure firmwide AI practices align with laws, court rules, and professional standards.

Provides temporary senior leadership for a law firm’s legal recruiting function during maternity leave. Oversees campus, summer associate, lateral associate, clerkship, and partner recruiting; advises partners and firm leaders; manages recruiting approvals, headcount requests, search firms, candidate processes, and cross-functional escalations. Leads the recruiting team, maintains operational continuity, protects confidential information, and ensures accurate documentation, reporting, stakeholder communication, and timely decision-making across active hiring processes.

Owns the end-to-end lateral partner recruiting process, from search through offer, partnership vote, onboarding, and integration. Manages search-firm relationships, market intelligence, governance workflows, stakeholder communications, process improvements, reporting, and a recruiting coordinator. Partners with senior law firm leaders and Business Services teams while handling confidential compensation and governance information.

Delivers recurring and ad hoc financial, operational, and productivity analytics across departments. Analyzes billing, collections, inventory, staffing, utilization, profitability, and other performance metrics. Develops reports, dashboards, written analyses, and executive summaries; maintains reporting tools, databases, templates, and visualizations; validates data quality; and collaborates with finance teams on strategic and operational initiatives.

Leads IT financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, expense management, procurement oversight, vendor financial governance, and executive reporting for a $70 million-$100 million technology portfolio. Manages operating and capital budgets across software, hardware, cloud, AI, telecommunications, infrastructure, and managed services. Establishes FinOps and cost optimization practices, identifies financial risks and savings opportunities, and partners with IT, Finance, Procurement, Legal, vendors, and senior executives.

Coordinate recruiting and onboarding activities, including interview scheduling, candidate communications, agency relationships, job requisitions, ATS records, background checks, offers, and onboarding documentation. Maintain accurate pipeline data, support compliance and confidentiality requirements, provide updates to HR leadership, and contribute to candidate experience, employer branding, job fairs, and process-improvement initiatives.

Supports business development and marketing for energy, infrastructure, and project finance practices. Responsibilities include identifying prospects, coordinating pitches and proposals, maintaining marketing materials, preparing award submissions, supporting communications and thought leadership, managing sponsorships and events, assisting lateral partner onboarding, and collaborating across business services teams. The role may supervise a Business Development Coordinator and requires strong professional-services marketing, writing, project management, and relationship-building skills.

Supports business development and marketing for the firm’s Energy and Infrastructure practices. Responsibilities include maintaining website and client data, tracking matters and league tables, preparing RFPs and pitches, coordinating award submissions, managing events and sponsorships, conducting market and client research, and liaising on public relations communications. The role requires strong organization, writing, communication, data management, and Microsoft Office skills, plus 1–3 years of marketing experience in a law firm or professional services environment.

Manages global health, retirement, leave, disability, workers’ compensation, and wellbeing programs. Oversees compliance, open enrollment, vendors, audits, plan documentation, budgeting, financial reconciliation, employee support, communications, and Workday implementations. Leads benefits strategy, supports international offices, manages the benefits team, and develops program enhancements and employee engagement initiatives.

Oversees compensation program design, administration, analysis, and compliance. Leads annual merit, bonus, incentive, benchmarking, job evaluation, salary structure, pay equity, and compensation planning processes. Manages Workday compensation data governance, reporting, audits, budgeting, and forecasting. Advises HR and leadership on pay decisions and provides market-based recommendations while leading compensation projects and process improvements.

Manages end-to-end client-facing events, including seminars, dinners, receptions, conferences, and special programs. Collaborates with attorneys, partners, practice leaders, and business development teams to establish objectives, timelines, budgets, and deliverables. Oversees venues, vendors, contracts, catering, audiovisual services, branding, transportation, on-site execution, and financial reporting. Develops creative event concepts, conducts post-event evaluations, maintains event data, and ensures consistent communications and branding across initiatives.

Manage and support enterprise security technologies including firewalls, SIEM, endpoint protection, IDS/IPS, DLP, vulnerability management, privileged access, and cloud security controls. Investigate and resolve security incidents, perform audits, risk assessments, vulnerability scans, and configuration reviews, and produce security metrics and documentation. The role also supports security architecture reviews, technology research, project planning, vendor management, and emergency on-call operations.

Supports attorney talent development for a litigation and arbitration practice group. Responsibilities include associate staffing, career counseling, performance evaluation support, training program implementation, onboarding, exit procedures, and professional development events. The role partners with attorneys and administrative teams across domestic offices and requires a JD, law firm experience, strong communication skills, discretion, flexibility, and hybrid attendance in New York.

Supports attorney talent and HR processes, including onboarding and offboarding, personnel record maintenance, employment verifications, orientation planning, scheduling, invoice and expense tracking, and general administrative support. The role requires discretion with confidential information, strong organization, attention to detail, advanced Excel skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a hybrid New York office environment.

Architects, develops, and maintains cloud-native C#/.NET applications and AI-powered solutions on Azure. Designs and deploys AI agents, RAG systems, prompt workflows, tool calling, and vector search capabilities. Establishes engineering standards, makes architectural decisions, conducts code reviews, mentors developers, and translates business needs into technical roadmaps. Integrates responsible AI practices, security, privacy, evaluation, and governance throughout the software development lifecycle.

Leads enterprise IT projects and AI initiatives from planning through delivery, coordinating internal teams, executives, vendors, consultants, and business stakeholders. Responsibilities include project governance, timelines, risks, dependencies, executive reporting, vendor accountability, AI tool rollout, change management, training coordination, adoption tracking, and AI governance. The role supports technology implementations, transformation programs, operating model improvements, and data, analytics, or AI-related initiatives.