Latham & Watkins

Full-stack Engineer

• Supporting the design and development of full-stack Machine Learning (ML) and Generative AI (GenAI) applications tailored to optimize legal and business workflows
• Integrating both frontend and backend components to deliver robust and scalable solutions
• Contributing to the entire lifecycle of ML/GenAI applications including concept, design, testing, releasing, and supporting
• Developing ML/GenAI solutions in a professional manner and in accordance with established deliverable schedules and firm procedures
• Working closely with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translating these into technical requirements for application development
• Contributing to the ideation and development of solutions and collaborating with ML Engineers to transition prototypes into production where necessary
• Participating in consultations with development staff, legal experts, end-users, and ML Engineers to elucidate system requirements and functionalities
• Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains

Senior AI Software Engineer

Recruitment

• Overseeing the associate recruiting function for the local office, supporting the Recruiting Committee in hiring summer associates as well as new associates and judicial clerks when applicable, while managing all aspects of the Summer Program, including orientation, events, programming, training, and performance management, ensuring a comprehensive and engaging experience
• Staying abreast of current and pending employment laws, market trends, and competitor recruiting policies, while supporting strategic initiatives of the firm’s management committees by developing and maintaining relationships with office leadership and recommending changes to enhance the firm's competitive edge
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with firm leaders and industry leaders, including regional law schools, while focusing on enhancing the firm's brand and influence by coordinating outreach efforts and engaging with key stakeholders, and providing research, analyzing data, and generating reports to support the firm's strategic goals and maintain a robust professional network
• Overseeing a team that supports the manager and the firm in all endeavors, while organizing, assigning, delegating, and coordinating staff work to manage workflow and resources effectively, especially during peak periods, while fostering a collaborative and efficient team environment
• Promoting effective work practices, working as a team member, and showing respect for others
• Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains

Associate Recruiting Manager

• Overseeing the associate recruiting function for the Brussels office
• Supporting the Recruiting Committee in hiring law clerks, trainees and lateral associates
• Managing all aspects of the Trainee and Law Clerk Program, including orientation, events, programming, training, and performance management
• Staying abreast of current and pending employment laws and market trends while supporting strategic initiatives of the firm’s management committees
• Developing and maintaining relationships with office leadership
• Organising, assigning, delegating, and coordinating staff work to manage workflow and resources effectively
• Promoting effective work practices and working as a team member

Revenue Operations

• Provide subject-matter advice and support to partners, lawyers, office management and finance leadership on all billing- and revenue-related matters.
• Overall responsibility for the billing and receivables management process (Billing & Collection) for the German offices.
• Close collaboration with the global Billing and Revenue Management team to develop processes and standards, and to implement and support new software and finance system upgrades.
• Train and provide specialist support to lawyers, paralegals and business services staff regarding billing, collections and matter billing processes.
• Prepare for, support and follow up on finance and revenue reviews, and coordinate with international finance management.
• Continuously analyze and optimize revenue-related processes with the aim of sustainably improving efficiency, transparency and cash flow.
• Lead and develop the local Billing and Revenue Management team, promoting a performance-oriented, collaborative team culture.

Billing, Revenue Manager – m/f/d

• Provide specialist advice and support to partners, lawyers, Office Management and Finance Leadership on all billing- and revenue-related matters.
• Take overall responsibility for the billing and receivables management process (Billing & Collection) for the German offices.
• Work closely with the global Billing and Revenue Management team to further develop processes and standards and to implement and support new software and finance system upgrades.
• Train and provide professional support to lawyers, paralegals and Business Services staff on billing, collections and matter-billing processes.
• Prepare for, support and follow up on finance and revenue reviews and coordinate with international finance management.
• Continuously analyze and optimize revenue-related processes to sustainably improve efficiency, transparency and cash flow.
• Lead and develop the local Billing and Revenue Management team and foster a performance-oriented, collaborative team culture.

Billing/Revenue Manager

Accounts Payable

• Managing and executing payments across various banks and major currencies
• Processing weekly pay runs for the firm's offices
• Handling intercompany payments, ad hoc payments, and direct debit postings
• Assisting global finance teams with bank reconciliations
• Ensuring month-end tasks are completed in a timely manner
• Exercising judgment and identifying issues that require escalation or additional care
• Reviewing workflow (or manual) approvals to determine if any additional approvals are required

Accounts Payable Specialist – Disbursements

Manager

• Engaging with fee earners and business services to understand how technology fits into the commercial and business context of their work, collaborating with the Director of Technology to suggest improvements in technology use and implementation
• Implementing global technology policies, procedures, and standards locally, and customizing complex applications through active consultation with users to meet local needs
• Ensuring full compliance with security, risk management, and disaster recovery policies, including data backup and personal data protection
• Managing the local delivery of end-user training and consulting to meet global standards and local requirements
• Overseeing the Service Desk operations, resolving advanced hardware, software, and network issues, and liaising with technical support from manufacturers when necessary
• Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains

Technology Manager

Human Resources

• Coordinating employee lifecycle processes including onboarding and orientation, departures, and transfers and providing support to the team with regard to all employee lifecycle queries
• Acting as a first point of contact, providing HR information and advice regarding the Firm’s policies and procedures
• Monitoring and responding to requests in the ServiceNow ticketing system for the HR department
• Maintaining and developing strong working relationships with all stakeholders and relevant global departments

Human Resources Assistant

• Assurer un rôle essentiel au sein de l'équipe de Recrutement.
• Attirer et sélectionner les meilleurs talents pour les postes de collaborateurs et stagiaires.
• Coordination des initiatives de recrutement.
• Mettre l'accent sur l'engagement sur les campus.
• Faciliter la communication tout au long du processus d'intégration.

Associate Recruiting Specialist

• Coordinating all phases of law student engagement, including serving as a liaison to law schools
• Coordinating with internal departments
• Providing mentorship and support to junior team members
• Supporting Link with Latham and law school outreach programming, including pre-event logistics, communications, and post-event analysis
• Developing and maintaining relationships with target law schools, career services, student organizations, vendors, and recruitment professionals
• Ensuring compliance with federal and state legislation and best practices, while developing and monitoring budgets and expenses for outreach and recruiting efforts
• Collaborating with team members and committees to identify and implement new marketing and promotional strategies
• Providing administrative support to the Recruiting Committee by preparing recruitment statistics, reports, and presentations
• Overseeing the work of coordinators, assistants, and interns, while providing informal feedback, and supporting the professional development of junior team members

Senior Associate Recruiting Coordinator – US Campus Relations

Billing Specialist

• Supervising the daily operations of the Billing team within the assigned office and ensuring compliance with firm policies and procedures
• Collaborating with the Accounting Manager or Billing Manager in the performance evaluation of departmental employees and the development of performance improvement recommendations
• Ensuring departmental goals and objectives are met by providing accurate and timely completion of assignments and responses to inquiries
• Coordinating and overseeing the completion of annual and monthly activities, including quarterly inventory campaigns, year-end collections and inventory management, e-billing coordination, and other high-priority, time-sensitive initiatives
• Promoting the “Gold Standard” inventory process by managing billing completion percentages to ensure timely billing, monitoring related reports, facilitating monthly inventory meetings with billing attorneys, and overseeing collections support and accounts receivable follow-up
• Participating in routine calls and conferences with partners and management regarding financial inventory
• Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains

Billing Supervisor

Risk

• Overseeing and assisting with supervision of the day-to-day operations of the Information Governance Operations team
• Assisting with educating firm personnel regarding the appropriate locations where data should be stored, understanding the firm’s systems and software tools, and acting as a resource regarding various information governance questions for staff, attorneys, and other users
• Leading and performing all aspects for all information governance processes including file intakes, releases, destructions, and data access requests for the office, ensuring compliance with firm policies and ensuring completion of the relevant process, and responding to questions from staff and other users and provides instruction and training as needed
• Implementing records retention policies and procedures, ascertaining which files are subject to retention, communicating with attorneys and clients regarding the disposition of files, and maintaining meticulous records regarding file disposition
• Assisting as necessary with the organization, classification, preparation, space coordination, and collection of files within systems and databases and the central filing area, case rooms, file cabinets, offsite storage facilities, or wherever files may be found
• Assisting with developing, maintaining, and coordinating appropriate inventory systems to track persons responsible for the files, room usage, file status and location, and other factors related to effective space management and Information Governance Operations oversight
• Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains

Information Governance Operations Lead

Learning and Development

• Supporting all aspects of the learning and development team’s responsibilities
• Developing learning materials, executing training projects and program communications that include leader’s guides, participant workbooks, and visual aids such as PowerPoint presentations
• Designing and developing new training courses in various formats (classroom, virtual, self-paced) as well as reviewing and/or updating current courses
• Assisting in identifying training needs/issues, and providing innovative training solutions for the Firm’s business services colleagues
• Measuring the transfer of learning and training impact by creating and implementing multi-level evaluations
• Facilitating professional and leadership skills via classroom and virtual course formats to a global population
• Contributing to the identification and creation process of learning opportunities outside the classroom, such as using multi-media devices, e-learning, etc.
• Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains

Professional Development Lead – Learning & Development

Business Intelligence Analyst

• Supporting the Global Finance department in achieving financial reporting objectives across multiple international jurisdictions
• Preparing statutory financial statements and tax reports for these jurisdictions
• Analyzing statutory ledgers, monitoring reconciliations, and investigating variances across billing, collections, and financial reporting data
• Preparing and reviewing account analyses, journal entries, and month-end closing tasks
• Validating financial data across accounting systems and maintaining financial accounting procedures
• Reviewing statutory reports, identifying discrepancies, and presenting findings to stakeholders as needed for resolution
• Collaborating with finance management on year-end reporting, new report development, and special projects
• Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains

Senior Financial Reporting Analyst

Attorney

• Daily time entry, expense reimbursement, calendaring and scheduling, managing/editing documents, and travel arrangements
• Proactively learning internal systems and processes to find innovative solutions to problems and requests
• Preserving the confidentiality of ours and our clients’ protected information
• Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains

Senior AI Software Engineer

Associate Recruiting Manager

Associate Recruiting Manager

Billing, Revenue Manager – m/f/d

Billing/Revenue Manager

Accounts Payable Specialist – Disbursements

Technology Manager

Human Resources Assistant

Associate Recruiting Specialist

Senior Associate Recruiting Coordinator – US Campus Relations

Billing Supervisor

Information Governance Operations Lead

Professional Development Lead – Learning & Development

Senior Financial Reporting Analyst

Attorney Support Assistant