Jobs at Goodwin

Leads legal project management for complex matters, partnering with attorneys, clients, pricing teams, and business development to manage scope, budgets, timelines, resources, profitability, and client transparency. Builds matter plans, dashboards, playbooks, workflows, and predictive budgeting tools; drives AI and automation adoption; establishes a new LPM operating model; supports change management and training; and mentors junior team members.

Manages strategic pricing for legal services, including alternative fee arrangements, fixed fees, retainers, proposals, RFPs, negotiations, profitability analysis, and budget-to-actual reporting. Develops pricing models, benchmarks, cost models, and AI-enabled tools; analyzes matter data to generate actionable insights. Partners with attorneys, clients, Finance, and Legal Project Management, while delivering training and mentoring analysts.

Owns the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Insights Journeys email platform, including architecture, configuration, integrations, governance, and roadmap. Builds and deploys email campaigns and automated journeys, manages QA and technical sign-off, and partners with marketing, CRM, analytics, privacy, technology, and vendors. The role also leads platform improvements, documentation, change management, issue resolution, stakeholder communication, and in-house and external production resources.

Manages lateral partner recruiting searches from launch through onboarding, including market research, candidate assessment, communications, interviews, diligence, approvals, and transition planning. Coordinates with firm leaders, practice management, finance, conflicts, integration, and search firms. Maintains pipelines, reports, recruiting materials, and confidential records while tracking deadlines, risks, and dependencies. Supports value propositions, candidate presentations, process improvements, and informed recruiting and practice-development decisions.

Leads the strategy, operating model, talent lifecycle, technology enablement, performance, and daily execution of paralegal services across a global law firm. Designs practice-specific delivery models, improves workflows and quality, develops managers and career paths, establishes performance metrics, oversees case assistants, drives AI and automation adoption, and partners with attorneys and firm leadership to improve service delivery and scalability.

Coordinates law-firm audit inquiry responses, including information gathering, disclosure analysis, drafting, deadline management, and collaboration with attorneys and Finance. Supports conflicts clearance by reviewing business intake, conducting conflicts searches, analyzing ethical and business risks, advising stakeholders, researching professional responsibility requirements, and preparing waivers, ethical screens, and engagement language. Also contributes to policy development, training, process improvement, and departmental projects.

The Legal Recruiting Specialist manages the on-campus recruiting process, summer programs, and assists with lateral hiring while ensuring smooth operations for the firm's offices in Los Angeles and Santa Monica.

Support attorneys on complex private investment fund matters including drafting and reviewing formation documents, managing investor onboarding and KYC/AML, coordinating closings and capital calls, maintaining records, assisting with SEC and state filings, researching securities and compliance issues, and liaising with clients and service providers to ensure accurate, timely execution of fund transactions and workflows.

Lead and manage the firm's research function and Research Analyst team to deliver timely, accurate legal, business, and competitive intelligence. Oversee intake, triage, quality review, tool adoption, vendor/subscription coordination, documentation, metrics/reporting, and cross‑functional partnerships to support attorneys and firm initiatives while improving processes and ensuring continuity.