Work alongside senior leadership to support and coordinate activities for designated practice areas and initiatives, including:
- BD Execution Support– Support execution of pitches, proposals, RFPs, and marketing materials. Coordinate timelines, gather experience and matter information, assist with drafting/editing, and ensure materials align with firm messaging and positioning.
- Experience Management & Rankings– Maintain deal and matter...
- Partner Integration Strategy
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- Design, implement, and manage firmwide partner onboarding and integration frameworks aligned with McGuireWoods’ strategic priorities.
- Collaborate with hiring sponsor(s), business development, and practice management to develop individualized integration plans tailored to each partner’s practice, clients, and growth objectives.
- Conduct 30 , 90 , 180 , and 365 day touchpoints with key...
- Monitors, reports, and makes corrections, when required, to all service and performance levels of enterprise network, application, hardware, security, telephony, data backup and data center/office environments using the provided tools for performance, event and capacity management
- Reviews/maintains Operational Service Level Agreements (SLA’s) and supporting vendor contracts
- Reviews and follows up to ensure issue remediation is complete
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- Identifies existing work processes that would benefit from AI enhancement and builds agents for use by attorney and business professional teams directly.
- Evaluates AI use cases and makes recommendations in support of firm AI goals that will influence the strategy of the Innovation & AI department.
- Collaborates with practice leadership to identify areas within their practice where AI would be particularly useful and designs, builds, and implements those AI solutions.
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- Liaise with clients, attorneys and staff to generate, distribute, edit, finalize and submit legal bills via various methods.
- Resolve billing-related issues from internal and external clients.
- Coordinate with accounting department to address questions/problems related to the billing process.
- Prepare reports and materials necessary to track billings and on items to be billed.
- Provide direction on Federal, State, and local rules of procedure and practice.
- Collaborate with the docketing team to perform various responsibilities, including legal research and responding to procedural inquiries using internal tools, PACER, Practical Guidance, and online resources.
- Stay informed on procedural best practices by attending monthly team meetings, following case trends, and rule changes.
- Collaborate with application support specialist to maintain and monitor...
Operational Leadership
- Collaborate with Client Responsible Attorneys (CRAs) and Practice Managers to ensure they have access to the most current WIP and AR information. Conduct regular meetings to update them on matters approaching critical aging thresholds and drive appropriate action before inventory becomes stale.
- Establish regular check-ins to track progress on agreed-upon actions and follow up on outstanding items requiring attention.
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Origination & Relationship Development
- Build and own senior-level relationships with GPs (especially emerging managers), LPs, and other key market participants
- Drive opportunities from prospecting through conversion, including attorney engagement and follow-up
- Facilitate introductions and connectivity to support fundraising, co-investment, and deal flow
- Partner...
- Coordinates the production and distribution of e-communications requests, including evites, announcements, and news alerts using the firm's email marketing platform.
- Assists with coordinating, managing, and updating data within the firm's CRM system to support email marketing and mailing list maintenance.
- Works with the firm’s business development team and other content administrators across the firm to...
- Reviews and summarizes lifecycle activities related to domestic entity governance documentation for corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships and investments.
- Administers and prepares documents to effect entity formations, qualifications, amendments, dissolutions and withdrawals, liquidations, and foreign registrations.
- Prepares entity resolutions and consents, as well as secretary’s and incumbency certificates.
- Prepares documents to effect mergers, conversions,...
- Writes new patent applications for filing at USPTO.
- Analyzes and revises patent agreements and assists with appeals, inferences, reexaminations, interviews and reissues.
- Negotiates and drafts patent agreements; prepares documents for filing and processing.
- Drafts responses to USPTO office actions.
- Performs patentability and freedom-to-operate searches, publication clearance reviews and assists in...
- Administers retirement plans, which may include a 401(k) plan and a defined benefit plan. Monitors payroll deductions, compares firm records to record-keeper, and ensures records match. Elevates discrepancies for resolution.
- Coordinate daily benefits processing. Handle enrollments, terminations, changes, beneficiaries, rollovers, QDROs, distributions, loans, hardships and compliance testing. Oversee maintenance of employee benefits files, maintains group benefits database and update employee payroll records.
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- Performs monthly account reconciliations for moderately complex accounts.
- Analyzes general ledger fluctuations and researches discrepancies.
- Performs specialized accounting functions to support the Firm’s fiduciary responsibilities to its clients.
- Plays a major role in monthly close processes including the preparation of journal entries and related audit trail support.
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- Understands the historical and latest developments in the specific and related areas of technology.
- Analyzes and understands standards applicable in the specific and related areas of technology.
- Analyzes embodiments of the specific and related areas of technology, including use of products, methods, and services by clients, and provides analyses relating to patent infringement and non-infringement.
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Origination & Relationship Development
- Build and own senior-level relationships with GPs (especially emerging managers), LPs, and other key market participants
- Drive opportunities from prospecting through conversion, including attorney engagement and follow-up
- Facilitate introductions and connectivity to support fundraising, co-investment, and deal flow
- Partner...
- Writes new patent applications for filing at USPTO.
- Analyzes and revises patent agreements and assists with appeals, inferences, reexaminations, interviews and reissues.
- Negotiates and drafts patent agreements; prepares documents for filing and processing.
- Drafts responses to USPTO office actions.
- Performs patentability and freedom-to-operate searches, publication clearance reviews and assists in...
- Partner Integration Strategy
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- Design, implement, and manage firmwide partner onboarding and integration frameworks aligned with McGuireWoods’ strategic priorities.
- Collaborate with hiring sponsor(s), business development, and practice management to develop individualized integration plans tailored to each partner’s practice, clients, and growth objectives.
- Conduct 30 , 90 , 180 , and 365 day touchpoints with key...
- Prepare exhibits, hearing binders, document productions, and schedule depositions.
- Handle mailings, deliveries, copying, and legal/court filings (paper and electronic) as needed.
- Respond to client inquiries promptly, addressing document revisions, scanning, file naming, photocopying, and other requests (billable and non-billable).
- Support new business intake, including conflict checks, drafting file opening requests, and preparing engagement letters.
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- Provide direction on Federal, State, and local rules of procedure and practice.
- Collaborate with the docketing team to perform various responsibilities, including legal research and responding to procedural inquiries using internal tools, PACER, Practical Guidance, and online resources.
- Stay informed on procedural best practices by attending monthly team meetings, following case trends, and rule changes.
- Collaborate with application support specialist to maintain and monitor...
- Writes new patent applications for filing at USPTO.
- Analyzes and revises patent agreements and assists with appeals, inferences, reexaminations, interviews and reissues.
- Negotiates and drafts patent agreements; prepares documents for filing and processing.
- Drafts responses to USPTO office actions.
- Performs patentability and freedom-to-operate searches, publication clearance reviews and assists in...