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About the Role
This temporary role supports the clean-up and enhancement of the firm’s experience management database, Foundation, with a focus on Capital Markets and Global Finance matters. The position is crucial for improving data accuracy and consistency, thereby strengthening the firm’s ability to support pitches, client development, and other business development initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Review, update, and organize Capital Markets and Global Finance matters in Foundation.
- Draft, revise, and standardize matter descriptions using available deal information, attorney input, firm materials, and public sources.
- Identify and correct incomplete, inconsistent, duplicative, or outdated matter records to improve searchability and reporting.
- Coordinate with lawyers, Business Development, and Knowledge Management to confirm matter details and ensure consistency.
- Ensure matters are appropriately categorized, tagged, and attributed for efficient experience identification.
- Support quality control for lawyer profiles, experience lists, and related submissions.
- Maintain confidentiality and exercise sound judgment in handling sensitive client and matter information.
Requirements
- Experience working in Foundation or a similar legal experience management or marketing database strongly preferred.
- Paralegal experience supporting transactional practices, particularly Capital Markets, Banking, or Finance, is highly desirable.
- Strong understanding of transactional matter types and the ability to distill deal information into clear, concise, business development-ready descriptions.
- Excellent attention to detail, organization, and follow-through.
- Ability to manage a high volume of records and work efficiently across multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
- Strong written communication skills and sound judgment in handling confidential information.
- Experience working in a law firm or other professional services environment preferred.
- Prior experience supporting Capital Markets and/or Global Finance lawyers or matters preferred.
- Familiarity with lawyer profiles, deal databases, pitch materials, and related business development processes preferred.
- Experience coordinating across Business Development, Knowledge Management, and practice group teams preferred.
- Strong organizational skills.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Good judgment.
- Strong interpersonal communication skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Able to work harmoniously and effectively with others.
- Able to preserve confidentiality and exercise discretion.
- Able to work under pressure.
- Able to manage multiple projects with competing deadlines and priorities.
Skills
- Foundation or similar legal experience management/marketing database
- Paralegal experience supporting transactional practices
- Capital Markets
- Banking
- Finance
- Distilling deal information into descriptions
- Attention to detail
- Organization
- Follow-through
- Managing high volume of records
- Working with multiple stakeholders
- Written communication
- Judgment
- Interpersonal communication
- Analytical skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Confidentiality
- Discretion
- Working under pressure
- Project management
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Temporary
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Temporary
Salary/Compensations
- $88,000 - $115,000
Benefits
- Bonus eligibility
- Comprehensive benefits program
About the Company
- Sidley is an elite global law firm with a known reputation of deploying innovative strategies to achieve powerful results.
- Business professionals are essential to the firm’s ability to deliver the highest quality legal services to our clients.
- We are always looking for talented, motivated individuals who thrive in a performance-driven culture to join our team.
- Sidley employs approximately 2,300 lawyers working with our clients in complex transactional, restructuring, crisis management, investigation, regulatory, and litigation matters.
- Our 160 years of perspective and reach are truly global, supported by 21 offices strategically situated in key commercial, regulatory, and financial centers across the world.
- Our lawyers and business professionals, fluent in more than 75 languages, possess the cultural awareness and cross-border legal acumen needed to bring clarity to a dynamic business landscape.
Equal Opportunity
- Sidley Austin LLP is an Equal Opportunity Employer.