Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Director

• Design, implement, and oversee a performance management program aligned with the Firm's strategic goals and objectives and with the guidance of Firm leadership to ensure each professional level on both the legal and consulting side of the business have a defined performance management process in place.
• Lead the continuous improvement of the Firm wide performance management processes that supports Firm wide goals and objectives and integrates performance management into all phases of development.
• Identifies best practices and current trends in performance management.
• Develop and maintain performance evaluation tools and processes, including setting clear expectations, providing ongoing feedback, and conducting performance reviews.
• This role will also evaluate whether to implement a “Realtime Feedback” tool where the Firm is not using one now.
• Review and revise the core competencies at all levels of the Firm, incorporating core competencies in the performance evaluation processes and work with other roles within the Firm (including professional development, practice management and human resources team members as appropriate) to ensure proper training tools in place to develop all professionals in line with core competencies at each level.
• Partner with Firm leaders (including business unit and group leaders and department heads) to establish individual performance goals.
• Oversee advancement process for the associate group and actively participate in the annual associate compensation process.
• Coach and mentor performance evaluators on providing effective performance feedback and development opportunities for their teams and develop and deliver training programs on performance management, as appropriate.
• Analyze performance data and identify trends to inform strategic decision-making and talent development initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable legal and ethical requirements related to performance management.
• Collaborate with professional development and human resources departments on professional development initiatives, including exit interview processes.
• Collaborate on, design and/or execute other projects, duties, initiatives as requested.

Director of Performance Management

Attorney

• Work closely with the Director of Strategic Growth, Legal in the creation and implementation of the annual strategic growth plan, including providing leadership and vision setting for the recruiting/sourcing strategy and approach.
• Manage all aspects of the Firm’s recruiting efforts, from job intake through offer, with a strong focus on Associate recruiting, in addition to supporting the Director of Strategic Growth, Legal with Partner recruiting efforts.
• Use a variety of search methods (i.e., search firms, internal referrals, online research tools) and creatively source candidates to target for proactive outreach.
• Review resumes and carry out preliminary screenings with candidates, referral sources, or search firms to assess if applicants meet the hiring requirements and should be forwarded to firm leadership.
• Schedule interviews, compile interviewer lists, collect and assess feedback, and craft evaluation summaries for leadership’s review.
• Serve as the main point of contact for candidates and referral sources or search firms, effectively guiding them throughout the recruitment process.
• Research lateral target candidates and monitor sources for information about candidates, peer firms, market activity, industry trends, and other information relevant to lateral recruiting.
• Serve as contact for lateral candidates, monitor interview schedules and act as the firm ambassador.
• Partner with the Business Professional teams to enhance recruiting efforts.
• Collaborate with the Marketing team to enhance firm branding for schools through quarterly newsletters, brochures, outreach emails, and website recruiting pages.
• Manage and train recruiting staff on processes and best practices and provide work direction with clear performance expectations for accountability, professional development opportunities, and contribute to the performance review process.
• Manage conflicts clearance process by reviewing hiring questionnaire, submitting with conflicts team to run check, identifying and elevating potential issues, reporting results to sponsoring partners and candidates and managing any needed recommendations.
• Manage background check clearance by reviewing completed reports, identifying, elevating and resolving potential issues, reporting results to necessary parties, and managing any needed recommendations.
• Support additional Strategic Growth projects/assignments as needed.

Senior Manager – Strategic Growth, Legal

Billing Specialist

• Accurately and timely process high volume of bills each month
• Familiarize self with special fee arrangements for clients and act as resource to billing professionals
• Monitor select matter billings against budgets
• Create and maintain accurate billing instructions
• Review client and matter setup for accuracy
• Review and edit pre-bills according to billing professional instructions
• Submit invoices electronically, monitor and promptly resolve reduction and appeals
• Communicate effectively with billing professionals, assistants, and clients
• Escalate to the Billing Supervisor if necessary
• Actively listen to issues raised by billing professionals
• Monitor carry forwards and write-offs

Paralegal

• Conduct detailed title review and analysis, including commitments, policies, pro formas, and endorsements.
• Identify and analyze title exceptions, easements, covenants, restrictions, liens, and encumbrances; flag issues for attorney review.
• Review title exception documents; prepare title review memoranda and title objection letters; track responses; and monitor cure items through closing.
• Request and negotiate pro forma title insurance policies, including lender and owner policies.
• Prepare estoppel certificates and SNDAs and coordinate execution with clients and third parties.
• Review and analyze ALTA/NSPS surveys, including boundary lines, easements, encroachments, access, and survey exceptions.
• Review and summarize third party reports and flag any issues for attorney review.
• Order and track third party reports including zoning, property condition and environmental.
• Coordinate with title companies, escrow agents, surveyors and other third parties to resolve title and survey issues.
• Prepare and manage title objections letters, track responses, and monitor cure items through close.
• Order and track title updates, bring-downs, and endorsements and confirm compliance with transaction requirements.
• Reconcile title and survey materials to identify and resolve discrepancies.
• Prepare, manage, and update closing checklists.
• Review Preliminary closing statements and closing binders.
• Organize and maintain due diligence materials, including title, survey, zoning, and environmental reports.
• Order and review zoning reports and coordinate revisions with zoning consultants.
• Support leasing matters by drafting leases and amendments incorporating LOI terms and assisting with related leasing documents, including consents and broker agreements.
• Prepare and review organizational documents, including consents and resolutions, and assemble and circulate entity records.
• Order and review certified organizational documents and good standing certificates; obtain EINs for newly formed entities; and file and register entities with secretaries of state, including qualifications to do business.
• Order and review judgment and lien searches and obtain missing information needed to complete closing deliverables.
• Prepare closing instructions and coordinate settlement statements with title companies and clients.
• Finalize documents for execution and recording, assemble exhibits, and coordinate delivery of closing packages.
• Prepare and file UCC financing statements and related amendments, assignments, and terminations and coordinate related filings.
• Support post-closing by following up on recorded documents and title policies and reviewing post-closing deliverables for accuracy.
• Maintain transaction timelines and ensure deadlines are met; calendaring all deadlines.

Real Estate, Land Use & Environmental Paralegal

• Serve as a key member of the Firm’s Legal and Risk Management team
• Work in close collaboration with the Conflicts team to proactively identify, research, and resolve potential conflicts of interest and risk management issues
• Lead complex conflict-of-interest analyses, provide expert guidance to partners and firm leadership regarding ethical compliance
• Develop and implement best practices to protect the firm across a wide variety of matters and jurisdictions
• Handle lateral conflicts clearances, including identifying and appropriately resolving all conflicts issues
• Assist with training other members of the Conflicts Department, including assisting with creating written training materials
• Review, draft, negotiate, and ultimately finalize waiver letters, disclosures, and engagement agreements and termination letters on a matter-by-matter basis

Senior Conflicts Attorney

Communications

• Develop and execute an enterprise-wide internal communications strategy aligned with firm priorities, culture, and values.
• Translate strategic initiatives, firm priorities and leadership messaging into clear, engaging and dynamic internal content for multiple audiences across multiple platforms.
• Coordinate and partner closely with Marketing Leadership team on all activities to ensure alignment on strategies, messaging and resources.
• Own the drafting, editing and coordination of firmwide internal communications aligned with Manatt’s internal communications framework and messaging priorities.
• Ensure consistency in tone, branding and messaging across internal communications, while reducing redundancy and email fatigue.
• Partner with department colleagues to support internal communications planning, execution and continuous improvement.
• Support development, execution and maintenance of a firmwide internal communications framework, including calendars, governance, and coordination processes, as well as a predictable leadership communications cadence, including quarterly firmwide updates and key milestone communications.
• Draft and adapt content for multiple internal channels, including intranet, office signage, email, video and other office‑based communications.
• Draft and coordinate CEO‑led internal messages, ensuring effective cascade and reinforcement across Firm.
• Serve as a strategic partner to departments, helping them align their internal communications with firmwide messaging while maintaining ownership of content.
• Assist in developing templates, guidelines and best practices that empower departments to communicate independently within a consistent framework.
• Measure the effectiveness of internal communications and refine approach based on engagement, feedback, and outcomes.
• Assess channel performance and identify opportunities to improve reach, engagement, and clarity.
• Provide guidance to junior team members and external partners, as applicable.

Internal Communications Manager

Content Marketing Manager

• Own the firm’s end‑to‑end content marketing strategy, including vision, priorities, themes, channels, and success metrics.
• Lead the development and execution of an integrated content marketing strategy that aligns with firm priorities, strengthens brand positioning, and supports business growth objectives.
• Monitor content performance and engagement metrics, using insights to continuously refine strategy and demonstrate impact.
• Build strategies to create and amplify firm thought leadership, including white papers, newsletters, client alerts, and marketing collateral, in collaboration with communications and branding teams to support client development efforts.
• Build and scale a repeatable content engine, including editorial standards, production workflows, and governance models that ensure quality, consistency, and efficiency.
• Serve as steward of the firm’s brand narrative and voice across owned content channels, ensuring clarity, consistency, and authority in the market.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, translating business priorities into effective content strategies and initiatives.
• Partner closely with marketing, business development, and firm leadership to align content initiatives with campaigns, client priorities, and go‑to‑market strategies.
• Develop strategies to position practices nationally and work with professionals to market services and expertise both externally and within the Firm.
• Develop content programs that support awareness, engagement, and business development efforts across the full client lifecycle.
• Support firm thought leadership and visibility by developing content that amplifies speaking engagements, publications, and leadership initiatives in partnership with BD and Communications teams.
• Grow and segment the firm’s client and industry contact database to support targeted campaigns, and publications.
• Develop and manage content related project plans and budgets, ensuring on time delivery, fiscal discipline, and alignment with firm priorities.

Director of Content Marketing

Graphics Designer

• Design high‑quality assets across digital and print channels, including presentations, infographics, email, newsletters, website and intranet content, executive reports, digital signage, and internal collateral.
• Translate complex legal, business, and consulting concepts into clear, visually compelling materials for diverse internal audiences.
• Conceptualize and execute engaging visual solutions for firmwide and practice‑level communications, including leadership messages, strategic initiatives, DEI programs, training, technology communications, talent communications, and internal campaigns.
• Serve as a visual thought partner to internal stakeholders, recommending creative approaches that elevate clarity, engagement, and impact.
• Ensure all communications align with firm brand standards, tone, and visual identity while evolving the look and feel to keep content modern and engaging.
• Maintain and refine internal design templates and toolkits to promote consistency and efficiency across teams.
• Partner closely with senior leadership and executive communications teams to produce polished, presentation‑ready materials for firm meetings, town halls, retreats, and strategic updates.
• Exercise discretion and sound judgment when handling sensitive or confidential information.
• Collaborate with Communications, Marketing, Business Development, Business Professionals, Firm leadership and external vendors as needed to deliver integrated solutions.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously, balancing speed, accuracy, and creative excellence in a deadline‑driven environment.

Graphic Designer

Business Development Rep

• Lead the implementation of the multi-year Manatt Health Strategic Plan and advance the associated Business Development and Marketing Action Plan, in partnership with practice and client account group leadership, to drive growth and identify new revenue opportunities.
• Collaborate closely with client account group leaders and professionals to elevate the market profile, positioning and visibility of practices and individuals internally and externally.
• Design and implement integrated go-to-market and client development campaigns aligned with practice priorities, including cross-selling and client service enhancement strategies.
• Provide leadership, supervision, coaching and mentoring.
• Support the growth of key client relationships and priority clients through targeted business development initiatives, research, and opportunity identification.
• Define and apply business development processes to expand business penetration with existing clients cross-platform by improving and advancing cross-selling practices.
• Collaborate with client account group leaders to track, analyze and manage pipeline.
• Track and analyze business development performance, including pipeline activity, wins and losses, ROI, best practices and lessons learned, and report insights to leadership.
• Develop strategies to position practices nationally and work with professionals to market services and expertise both externally and within the Firm.
• Drive new business generation through strategic sponsorships, memberships, speaking opportunities and targeted events, supported by business case evaluation and ROI tracking.
• Build a strategy to both create and amplify Manatt Health thought leadership, including white papers, newsletters, client alerts and marketing collateral, in collaboration with communications and branding teams to support client development.
• Oversee development and deployment of brand-compliant marketing materials including digital content and social media.
• Identify professional organizations, industry associations, educational institutions, and clients to pursue leadership roles, speaking opportunities and referral sources.
• In collaboration with communications team strengthen share of voice through media and press opportunities.
• Assist with the integration of senior professionals (partners, managing directors, national advisors) by supporting onboarding, announcements and relationship building initiatives.
• Establish and maintain standards and processes to capture, manage and update representative experience, capability statements, case studies, and matter lists to support proposals and ranking submissions.
• Provide strategic direction, oversight and quality control for RFPs, pitches, proposals and presentations, including customized messaging, value proposition development and editing.
• Oversee submissions to legal rankings and directories (e.g., Chambers, Legal 500), including content development and strategic positioning.
• Conduct market, client, industry and competitor research to analyze trends, assess competitive positioning, and inform marketing strategies, proposals, and practice development plans.
• Identify opportunities with existing and prospective clients based on research, trend analysis, and market insights.
• Grow and segment the firm’s client and industry contact database to support targeted campaigns, events and publications.
• Develop and manage project plans and budgets for business development initiatives, ensuring timely execution, fiscal discipline and compliance with firm policies.