Jobs at Gibson Dunn

Supports month-end and year-end close, bank reconciliations, tax filings, audits, accounts payable, credit card transaction processing, and accounting system administration. Prepares reports, researches discrepancies, supports process improvements, and assists with special projects while maintaining documentation and internal controls. The role requires a four-year degree, advanced Excel proficiency, strong communication and organizational skills, and the ability to manage large data volumes. One to two years of accounting experience is preferred but not required.

Supports firmwide project performance management by monitoring budgets, tracking alternative fee arrangements, analyzing client portfolios, identifying at-risk matters, producing financial reports, and supporting pricing and legal operations initiatives. The role manages multiple projects, collaborates with attorneys, billing teams, and internal stakeholders, and helps develop standardized performance-management tools and practices.

Owns and maintains the firm’s M&A and Private Equity forms, drafting resources, and transactional precedent. Reviews materials against legal developments, market practice, firm precedent, and public filings; develops new forms and guidance; coordinates reviews with lawyers and specialists; and manages review cycles. Uses AI-assisted tools and document automation to benchmark, organize, and improve resources while providing substantive legal judgment. Requires substantial M&A or Private Equity drafting and negotiation experience, strong legal research skills, and bar admission.

Leads cloud security architecture, governance, and implementation across Azure, AWS, GCP, and hybrid infrastructure. Designs Zero Trust frameworks, secure landing zones, identity and network controls, threat models, and cloud security testing. Automates controls using Terraform, Python, PowerShell, and policy-as-code, integrates security into CI/CD, manages cloud security platforms, drives remediation and compliance, and mentors engineering teams.

Coordinates attorney transitions including lateral arrivals, secondments, departures, and retirements. Manages timelines, stakeholders, conflicts and intake processes, matter openings, data transfers, communications, and transition documentation. Supports secondment lifecycle management and provides concierge-level assistance to incoming laterals. Maintains trackers and dashboards, analyzes process data, recommends improvements, and ensures information governance procedures are followed. Acts as a project coordinator and subject matter expert across multiple law firm business-services functions.

Supports attorneys throughout complex litigation from case initiation through trial, including court filings, calendaring, discovery, document review and production, brief proofreading and cite checking, deposition preparation, trial and arbitration support, case management, vendor coordination, and preparation of charts and indices. The role also mentors junior staff, manages multiple deadlines, submits timekeeping reports, and supports matters across offices.

Provides high-level administrative and practice coordination support to litigation partners and counsel. Responsibilities include complex scheduling, meeting preparation, time entry, document editing, correspondence, expenses, client onboarding, billing, relationship management, domestic and international travel arrangements, and team backup support. The role also requires litigation expertise, including civil procedure, court e-filing, docketing, calendaring, law and motion practice, discovery management, and large-scale document production.

Manages billing rate administration, fee arrangement databases, internal approval compliance, legal pricing analyses, competitor and market studies, and related projects. Collaborates with billing teams, attorneys, clients, and other stakeholders while providing pricing subject-matter expertise and high-quality service. Requires advanced Excel skills, strong analytical and communication abilities, and the capacity to manage multiple priorities independently.

Leads the U.S. conflicts attorneys team and oversees conflicts clearance for new clients, matters, and lateral hires. Resolves complex professional responsibility issues, advises partners and firm leadership, manages ethical screens, negotiates waivers, develops policies and training, monitors service levels, and improves conflicts technology and workflows. Requires attorney admission, substantial large-law-firm conflicts experience, team leadership, and expertise with ABA rules and Intapp or equivalent systems.

Oversee full-cycle recruitment for high-level staff positions across global services departments. Responsibilities include sourcing, screening, hiring-manager partnership, agency management, offer negotiation, onboarding coordination, ATS administration, compliance, and recruiting metrics. The recruiter will develop strategic talent plans, improve candidate and hiring-manager experiences, maintain recruiting records, and lead process initiatives.

Leads multi-office legal billing operations and manages Billing Managers, Supervisors, and Specialists. Oversees WIP, accounts receivable, on-account inventories, complex alternative fee arrangements, billing issue resolution, client reporting, and ad hoc financial analysis. Partners with Accounting, Finance, Pricing, attorneys, and eBilling teams to resolve issues, improve processes, implement technology, and maintain client service standards. Responsible for team development, performance management, training, succession planning, and meeting firm and client deadlines.

Define and govern the firm's target-state enterprise architecture across Microsoft, Azure, AWS, networking, security, data, and AI environments. Modernize legacy Microsoft infrastructure, establish cloud and hybrid-networking standards, implement data governance and security-by-design practices, and guide responsible AI adoption. Develop architecture roadmaps, standards, and governance artifacts while advising IT leadership and collaborating with infrastructure, applications, security, data, and practice-technology teams in a regulated legal environment.

Analyzes complex financial and business data, develops KPI reports and dashboards, and translates findings into polished visual narratives and presentations. The role supports senior leadership decision-making, presents insights to nontechnical stakeholders, manages competing analytical requests, and collaborates with Finance, BI, legal, marketing, and HR teams. It requires advanced Excel and PowerPoint proficiency, data visualization experience, strong communication skills, and at least four years of related experience.

Processes legal conflict searches using internal and external databases, researches corporate structures, analyzes conflicts results, and communicates issues to attorneys and firm personnel. Maintains accurate conflict reports, evaluates and escalates potential conflicts, supports intake systems, assists with analyst training, and contributes to process and technology improvements. Requires strong legal research, analytical, organizational, confidentiality, and customer service skills in a fast-paced law firm environment.

Provides legal and administrative support for high-volume fund finance transactions, including subscription and NAV lending closings. Responsibilities include coordinating lender KYC/AML and due diligence, reviewing fund organizational documents, preparing and filing UCC financing statements, managing signature and closing processes, coordinating searches and certifications, tracking post-closing requirements, and maintaining transaction records. The role requires managing multiple concurrent transactions, collaborating across offices, and using tools such as Harvey, iManage Closing Folders, and DocuSign.

The Legal Technology and AI Attorney applies restructuring expertise to identify, evaluate, and implement AI-enabled tools, automation, knowledge resources, and technology-supported workflows. The role develops templates, playbooks, guidance, and practice-support systems; pilots emerging technologies; trains attorneys and staff; and collaborates with legal, technology, research, and administrative teams to improve efficiency, consistency, and scalability in restructuring matters.

Coordinates firm-wide legal conflicts checking and clearance processes, monitors and assigns requests, tracks deadlines, supports Conflicts Analysts, communicates with attorneys and legal staff, verifies report accuracy, resolves or escalates issues, and contributes to process and technology improvements. Requires strong knowledge of legal conflicts concepts, ethical rules, research, organization, discretion, and customer service skills.

Promotes, trains users on, and supports eDiscovery technology for litigation matters across the firm. Engages legal teams and clients, serves as a subject matter expert for Relativity, RelativityOne, OPUS2, and case management systems, and supports litigation workflows. Applies AI-enabled eDiscovery, TAR, analytics, automation, and machine learning to improve review efficiency, quality control, and defensibility while managing time-sensitive assignments.

Supports business development and visibility initiatives for M&A, private equity, media and entertainment, and life sciences practices. Creates pitch documents, deal lists, matter descriptions, and other marketing collateral; supports legal directory, award, conference, sponsorship, and client relationship activities. Collaborates with CRM, market intelligence, directories, and business development teams on deal submissions, client targeting, research, and strategic projects.

Administer Slack Enterprise Grid, Microsoft Teams, and Lark in a regulated legal environment. Manage identity lifecycle, SSO, SCIM, governance, retention, legal holds, eDiscovery, DLP, app and bot approvals, data residency, and compliance controls. Develop and govern Lark bots, support cross-platform data-flow security reviews, maintain audit processes, document policies, train users, and coordinate vendor support. The role requires extensive enterprise collaboration-platform administration experience, including production Lark expertise and Microsoft identity and compliance administration.