Latham & Watkins

Research Analyst

• Taking the lead in identifying and researching potential stressed targets in the relevant market
• Advising Restructuring and Special Situations (R&SS) partners on industry opportunities
• Monitoring the market to identify corporate distress and converting it into a pipeline of targets
• Preparing detailed internal credit analysis, including assessing liquidity, debt capacity, and financial and operating performance to evaluate company weaknesses and potential financing needs
• Developing workflows from ideation to marketing presentation, supported by credit reviews and go‑to‑market strategies for positioning R&SS opportunities
• Contributing to pitches through financial and commercial analysis of company situations
• Working closely with the Chair and Co‑Chairs of the R&SS practice, as well as R&SS partners, counsels, and associates

Distressed Credit Research Analyst

Recruitment

• Identifying and capitalizing on opportunities to recruit qualified lateral associate candidates and managing the recruitment process from start to finish, with a focus on supporting the practice group model
• Managing and evaluating relationships with search firms and external vendors, ensuring competitive fee structures and continuous process improvement
• Preparing and communicating statistics, marketing materials, and progress reports to ensure alignment with practice group needs
• Organizing, delegating, and coordinating staff work by managing workflow and conducting performance evaluations to ensure effective leadership
• Promoting effective work practices by working as a team member and demonstrating respect for others
• Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains

Associate Recruiting Manager – Litigation & Trial Lateral Associates

• Acting as a strategic, commercial business partner for the hiring team by being aware of market developments, challenges, and opportunities, and using this knowledge to help shape go-to-market strategy
• Managing full-cycle recruiting tasks and procedures for all assigned requisitions
• Serving as the firm’s external-facing representative to candidates by exercising sound judgment and ensuring an excellent candidate experience while performing duties, delivering exceptional client service to hiring managers through professional email interactions, regular meetings, and phone conversations
• Exhibiting advanced knowledge of all recruiting-related technologies and recruiting best practices, and staying abreast of job requirements, valid selection methods, and equal employment opportunities to ensure adherence to all relevant employment laws
• Working with recruiting leadership to identify and implement enhancements to the recruitment process, keeping pace with the dynamic nature of recruitment
• Engaging in and spearheading projects aimed at increasing the commercial impact of the recruiting team
• Interviewing and training junior team members
• Collaborating with other firm departments to develop efficient procedures and communications that streamline processes and meet various departmental needs, including the internal career services team
• Undertaking special projects within the office or the firm on various topics as required
• Promoting effective work practices, working as a team member, and showing respect for co-workers
• Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains

Business Services Recruiting Specialist

• Coordinating activities and processes in support of lateral partner hiring and integration
• Facilitating clear, timely, and effective communication with lateral partner candidates regarding interview scheduling
• Coordinating the processing of submissions and introductions of lateral partner candidates
• Preparing and compiling candidate materials, including interview memoranda and related diligence
• Maintaining accurate and timely updates in the applicant tracking system
• Providing operational support for lateral partner recruiting processes involving candidates for other Latham offices
• Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information

Partner Recruiting Specialist

Legal Assistant

• Monitoring lawyer time entries for compliance with firm standards, while proactively editing entries, and alerting attorneys of any non-compliance
• Generating, editing, and posting client invoices ensuring firm and client defined standards (Outside Counsel Guidelines) are met, while working with assigned lawyers to regularly manage their billing inventory, as applicable
• Gathering and working to the preferences of assigned attorneys in order to execute tasks such as expense reimbursement, calendaring and scheduling, document management/edits, and travel arrangements
• Preserving the confidentiality of firm and client protected information
• Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains

Legal Secretary

• Supporting the firm’s efforts with respect to the proactive identification, evaluation, and presentation of materials relating to potential lateral partner and counsel candidates, globally
• Conducting comprehensive market research and assembling competitive intelligence to identify suitable prospective lateral partner and counsel candidates within target practice areas, sectors, and geographic regions
• Developing and maintaining detailed market maps to track key talent at competitor firms and other relevant organizations
• Maintaining accurate and up-to-date records of prospective lateral partner and counsel candidates and talent pipelines within the firm’s applicant tracking system, and ensuring outreach and search activity is recorded in a timely manner
• Collaborating with the Research & Analysis team to build and maintain an understanding of the lateral market, including tracking market trends, competitor movements, and industry developments to provide actionable intelligence
• Preparing candidate materials, target lists, market analysis reports, and presentation decks for firm and department leadership
• Monitoring incoming search firm submissions for relevance to, and duplication with, current or anticipated talent identification efforts
• Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains

Partner Recruiting Specialist – Talent Identification

Attorney

• Designing, developing, and optimizing AI-powered workflows that support a legal practice group
• Developing and maintaining prompt engineering standards, workflow templates, and quality assurance protocols for AI-powered tools, ensuring consistent, high-quality outputs
• Executing on the strategic vision for AI-enabled workflows, contributing to multi-year roadmaps for AI optimization initiatives aligned with firm strategy, practice group priorities, and attorney needs
• Translating practice requirements into AI workflow specifications, prompt libraries, and knowledge repositories, ensuring AI outputs align with attorney expectations and legal best practices
• Providing input on AI workflow priorities and optimization efforts, balancing practice group needs, technical feasibility, quality standards, and long-term strategic value
• Monitoring and reporting on KPIs, quality metrics, and attorney satisfaction measures for AI-powered workflows, using data-driven insights to guide optimization and iteration
• Conducting research and development efforts to identify opportunities for AI enhancement in workflows, staying current with advances in large language models, prompt engineering techniques, and legal AI applications
• Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains

Legal Workflow Engineer – Transactional

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Overseeing and maintaining accounting records of private investment funds, including general ledgers, partners’ capital, and related financial statements and tax reporting
• Confirming accurate journal entries, reconciliations, and fund accounting operations, including capital calls, distributions, cost allocations, monthly reporting packages, and investor capital activity
• Reviewing subscription documents, including Know Your Customer questionnaires, investor documentation, and related bank or brokerage forms
• Partnering closely with investment committees, internal teams, and banking or brokerage firms, and communicating with investors and other stakeholders with a strong customer‑service focus
• Driving the setup of new investment fund vehicles and supporting fund dissolutions
• Ensuring the accuracy, completeness, and integrity of annual fund financial statements, and liaising with auditors on agreed‑upon procedures and audits
• Ensuring compliance with applicable regulatory requirements
• Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains

Manager – Investment Fund Accounting

Manager

• Manage the Department’s current awareness and monitoring services in Europe
• Create bespoke monitoring products leveraging multiple tools, technologies and information sources
• Train Research Services colleagues to provide monitoring products that minimize the need for human curation
• Develop and implement standards and best practices for the delivery of current awareness and monitoring
• Manage aggregation platforms such as Vable and LN Newsdesk, and work with vendors to troubleshoot issues
• Liaise with Technology & Information Services to develop internal solutions such as a current awareness dashboard
• Liaise with other business services to develop efficient procedures/communications to streamline processes

Research Services Manager – Monitoring Services

Events

• Planning, managing, and executing client-facing events and experiential opportunities
• Owning and leading the end-to-end strategic planning, execution, and evaluation of a portfolio of client events, including seminars, conferences, sponsorships, and hospitality experiences
• Acting as a strategic advisor to partners and senior stakeholders on event strategy, format, audience targeting, and execution
• Partnering with Business Development colleagues to understand strategic objectives across practices, industries, and markets, and curating event strategies that align with those goals
• Providing senior-level oversight of event logistics and execution during the planning process and on-site, proactively identifying and resolving risks or issues
• Leading event budgeting and financial oversight, including budget development, spend tracking, vendor negotiations, and post-event return on investment (ROI) reporting
• Partnering with Business Development, Brand & Communications, and other internal teams to ensure consistent branding and integrated communications
• Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains

Manager – Client Events

• Managing and leading all supportive aspects of finance-related cases or transactions
• Maintaining closing checklists, coordinating closings, preparing signature pages, and following up on post-closing items
• Preparing related closing indices and binders
• Assisting attorneys and other paralegals with due diligence including reviewing and retrieving data room documents
• Preparing an electronic share folder for closing through our global technology group
• Ordering and requesting from vendors articles of organization and incorporation and corporate, and tax certificates of good standing in appropriate jurisdictions
• Drafting forms, letters, or other documents, both legal and non-legal
• Anticipating typical work for a transaction, and working with supervisors to ensure all aspects are addressed
• Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains

Paralegal II – Finance

Analyst

• Perform analysis and adapt it to different industries and products as priorities shift based on macro-economic and market dynamics
• Brainstorm market themes as part of the team, actively contributing ideas and developing others’
• Design and execute quantitative and qualitative analysis on broad market themes down to single-name analysis, across different industries and products
• Support team projects as needed
• Engage with key stakeholders to embed the team’s reputation and work output through the firm and clients
• Protect and maintain any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains

Tactical Opportunities Analyst

Operations

• Managing the day ‑ to ‑ day operation of the department’s content procurement process, including purchasing new electronic and print content, renewing existing contracts, and liaising with external vendors to ensure services meet expectations and comply with firm policies
• Managing electronic and print contract compliance by monitoring usage, setting up business review meetings, and responding to contractual obligations and licensing questions
• Liaising with the firm’s internal Contract Review, Privacy, Security, and Global Procurement teams to review and approve contract terms, conditions, and pricing
• Supervising and authorizing invoice payments, and reviewing and correcting vendor accounts
• Liaising with Research Services Managers, attorneys, and other business services teams to purchase new content, review existing research resources, and assist with promoting awareness of electronic and print resources
• Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains

Research Services Manager – Operations

Executive Assistant

• Assisting an assigned group of local attorneys
• Providing global team support with administrative responsibilities
• Monitoring lawyer time entries for compliance
• Generating, editing, and posting client invoices
• Gathering and executing tasks such as expense reimbursement, calendaring and scheduling, document management/edits, and travel arrangements
• Preserving confidentiality of firm and client information

Attorney Support Secretary

• Supporting the development and maintenance of the department’s discovery platform, knowledge base, and collaboration workspaces
• Ensuring the integrity and accuracy of the firm ‑ wide catalogue and discovery platforms, including the eLibrary
• Working with other areas of Technology & Information Services to support systems configuration, platform upgrades, and maintenance
• Designing and managing electronic and print content platforms to ensure resources are easily accessible, relevant to the task, and understood by end users
• Overseeing the department’s knowledge base, and collaborating with the research team to develop and audit content
• Managing the department’s collaboration workspaces, such as Microsoft Teams, iManage, and SharePoint
• Supporting services including password management, research platform authentication, and migrations
• Promoting effective work practices by working collaboratively as a team member and demonstrating respect for coworkers
• Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains