Jobs at Gibson Dunn

Supports firm-wide recruiting for Global Services and staff positions, including candidate sourcing, screening, referrals, interviews, offers, onboarding, applicant tracking, and recruiting analytics. Partners with hiring managers, advises on hiring practices, maintains recruiting records, manages search-firm relationships, supports applicant testing, and assists with human resources programs while handling confidential information.

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.

Investigate and respond to security events, alerts, incidents, and user-reported concerns across the firm. Serve as an escalation point and subject matter expert for SIEM, detection, and response technologies; build queries, correlation rules, dashboards, and procedures. Analyze logs, document investigations, support users, and recommend security improvements. Monitor AI-related threats including prompt injection, data exposure, misuse, and AI-assisted attacks while validating AI-generated security findings and automated actions.

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.

Provides concierge-level reception and administrative support in an onsite law firm environment. Welcomes and assists clients, visitors, attorneys, and staff; manages calls, inquiries, guest registration, and visitor access. Books and coordinates conference room and flexible workspace reservations, resolves scheduling conflicts, monitors utilization, distributes operational reports, and supports multiple reception areas. Requires strong customer service, communication, organization, discretion, physical capability, and the ability to work overtime.

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.

Supports attorneys throughout complex litigation, from case initiation through trial. Responsibilities include case management, court filings, calendaring, discovery, document review and production, cite checking, deposition and trial preparation, document organization, reporting, vendor coordination, and timekeeping. The role also uses litigation technology, eDiscovery databases, legal research platforms, document management systems, and AI tools. Candidates must have strong organizational, analytical, communication, and multitasking skills, plus 8–10 years of relevant AmLaw 100 experience.

Develop and deliver risk-focused training for the Conflicts and New Matters group at a global law firm. Responsibilities include assessing training gaps, creating onboarding and procedural resources, maintaining a centralized knowledge repository, evaluating training effectiveness, monitoring compliance, and reviewing analyst work quality. The role supports legal ethics, conflicts analysis, regulatory compliance, system changes, and risk mitigation across offices.

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.

Independently manages complex electronic court filings, service, document retrieval, docket monitoring, and procedural research across California state and federal courts. Reviews submissions for compliance, coordinates corrections, tracks deadlines, and communicates with attorneys and court personnel. Provides guidance, training, mentoring, quality control, and filing resources to other specialists while supporting efficient, accurate litigation operations.

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.

Manages month-end and year-end close, complex journal entries, reconciliations, fixed assets, tax reporting, audits, accounting policies, treasury support, and process improvements. Serves as a subject matter expert in accounting systems, provides financial analysis and reporting, and supervises, trains, and mentors accounting staff.

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.

Perform electronic filings, document service and retrieval, docket monitoring, deadline calendaring, and court document review for California state, federal district, and appellate litigation. Support attorneys with legal research, case searches, service of process, and procedural compliance. Maintain docketing databases, communicate with court and firm personnel, and provide administrative support in a fast-paced law firm environment.

Coordinates law school, summer associate, new attorney, and lateral associate recruiting for the Los Angeles office. Responsibilities include candidate communications, application review, interview logistics, callbacks, recruiting events, summer program administration, hiring reports, budgeting, and administrative support. The role collaborates with recruiting leadership, law schools, candidates, attorneys, and staff while managing multiple high-volume recruiting activities with discretion and attention to detail.

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.

The Director of Data Services will lead the firm's enterprise data strategy, architecture, engineering, governance, analytics, and AI data enablement. Responsibilities include building a unified data platform, establishing governance and master data management, overseeing data engineering and BI teams, delivering practice and client intelligence, ensuring regulatory and confidentiality compliance, and supporting AI retrieval infrastructure. The role also requires executive leadership, organizational development, and strategic partnership with firm leadership, Finance, Business Development, HR, IT Security, and Legal.