Jobs at Sidley Austin LLP

Supports the Partner Recruiting Director in managing lateral partner recruiting activities, candidate and recruiter relationships, stakeholder communications, policy compliance, onboarding, and process improvements. Supervises and mentors the recruiting team, serves as a backup to the Director, and ensures recruiting processes follow firm policies and ethics rules. The role requires strong organization, discretion, communication, judgment, and the ability to manage competing priorities under pressure.

Provides administrative and coordination support for law student recruiting, summer associate programs, recruiting events, interviews, hiring decisions, onboarding, evaluations, databases, records, surveys, reimbursements, and office tours. Maintains recruiting materials and systems, supports associate engagement, and collaborates across firm departments while managing competing deadlines and confidential information.

Supports legal recruiting operations for the New York office, including summer associate program planning, law student recruiting, application processing, interview scheduling, onboarding, events, reviews, database maintenance, and candidate engagement. Requires collaboration with recruiting teams and firm departments, strong organization, discretion, communication, and the ability to manage competing deadlines during busy recruiting periods.

Supports recurring HR operations across New York, Boston, and Miami offices. Responsibilities include Workday data audits and transactions, time and attendance reconciliation, new hire orientation logistics, personnel records maintenance, labor law compliance postings, I-9 verification, employee inquiry support, performance appraisal tracking, and recurring HR reporting. The role requires confidentiality, accuracy, strong organization, and effective coordination under supervision.

Supports business development and marketing initiatives for assigned practice and industry groups. Prepares proposals, RFP responses, rankings submissions, presentations, collateral, and website content. Conducts client and market research, maintains business development databases and materials, coordinates events, and collaborates with creative and regional marketing teams. Ensures accuracy, consistency, confidentiality, and timely completion across multiple projects and competing priorities.

Supports the firm's public relations strategy by securing media approvals, drafting press releases and talking points, developing story pitches, arranging publishing opportunities, conducting media outreach, monitoring coverage, and preparing data-driven PR reports. The role also coordinates with external agencies, manages administrative projects, and provides strategic insights to inform PR initiatives.

Leads the Firm’s information governance program, overseeing records lifecycle management, information classification, access controls, retention, disposition, legal holds, compliance, and document management systems. The role manages NetDocuments administration, resolves complex operational issues, assesses risks, develops policies and training, drives process and technology improvements, and coordinates with legal, technology, and business stakeholders. It also provides team leadership, monitors performance, and reports governance risks and recommendations to senior leadership.

Leads business development and marketing strategy for litigation practice groups, including proposals, pitches, client development, market research, rankings, awards, events, communications, budgets, and cross-selling initiatives. Advises partners, manages marketing infrastructure and collateral, tracks ROI, coordinates firm teams, and supervises junior staff. Requires strong writing, analysis, organization, discretion, and stakeholder-management skills.

Provides Level II technical support for hardware, software, network, telephony, mobile devices, and enterprise applications. Troubleshoots user incidents, performs imaging and device configuration, manages technology assets, coordinates hardware moves and warranty repairs, supports office moves and technology projects, and maintains IT service records. Requires strong problem-solving, communication, organizational, confidentiality, and multitasking skills.

Leads hands-on development of scalable full-stack applications using React, .NET, Next.js, TypeScript, and Azure. Responsibilities include architecture, technical decision-making, code reviews, performance optimization, application security, CI/CD implementation, mentoring engineers, and cross-functional collaboration. The role also contributes directly to coding, database optimization, API development, and cloud-native deployment practices.

Lead strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle for AI-driven products. Collaborate with engineering, legal, IT, and marketing to define features, integrate AI models, ensure responsible AI practices, set KPIs, and deliver high-value production AI solutions.

Designs, develops, deploys, and maintains scalable full-stack applications using .NET, React/Next.js, and Azure. Owns complex features, contributes to architecture, monitors application performance, applies security practices, supports CI/CD and cloud deployments, participates in code reviews, and mentors less experienced engineers. Collaborates with product managers, designers, and technical teams to deliver reliable, maintainable, production-quality software.

Analyzes and improves records and information governance processes, controls, retention, document security, data migration, and compliance practices. Supports lawyers and administrative teams with document reviews, file releases, disposition, entitlement reviews, and workspace organization. Develops recommendations, test plans, reports, metrics, change-management plans, and process improvements while investigating document security alerts and maintaining confidentiality.

Build and maintain scalable full-stack web applications using .NET, React, Next.js, and Azure. Responsibilities include feature delivery, API and microservices development, testing, code reviews, architecture, performance optimization, security, CI/CD support, cloud deployment, and production support. Senior engineers will mentor teammates and influence engineering standards, while early-career engineers receive mentorship and progressively greater ownership.

Leads hands-on development of full-stack applications using .NET, React, Next.js, and Azure. Owns architecture, coding, code reviews, testing, security, reliability, observability, production support, and cloud deployment. Integrates AI and GenAI capabilities such as LLM features, RAG, semantic search, and agentic workflows. Mentors engineers, establishes technical standards, collaborates with stakeholders, supports hiring, and helps deliver scalable, secure software.

Leads global legal directory, rankings, and awards strategy for a law firm. Oversees submissions, research calendars, client references, lawyer interviews, stakeholder coordination, results reporting, and process improvement. Advises lawyers and business development teams, communicates participation strategies, manages LexTrack data, and provides leadership, coaching, hiring, and performance oversight for the Rankings & Awards team.

Provides administrative and practice-specific support to attorneys, including document preparation, calendar and travel management, billing and time-entry coordination, client matter opening, meeting preparation, file maintenance, communications, and workflow improvement. Senior-level responsibilities include managing complex calendars, overseeing billing and collections, training colleagues, coordinating with firm departments, and serving as a trusted partner to attorneys and practice groups.

Lead business development and marketing for the Global Finance practice: develop strategies and plans with practice leaders, manage RFPs and pitches, maintain collateral and experience databases, coordinate industry research and PR, oversee submissions/awards, plan client programs, track ROI and budgets, and supervise and develop junior BD staff to drive cross-selling and practice profile growth.