Senior Manager, Practice Information and Communication - Financial Services Litigation

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP • San Francisco, CA

5d • $200,000 - $250,000

About The Position

Orrick currently has an excellent opportunity on our Financial Services Litigation team for a Senior Manager, Practice Information & Communication, based in our New York or San Francisco office. In this role, you will use your understanding of complex litigation and financial services/private funds ecosystem to help one of the firm’s leading practices accelerate its growth. This role presents an opportunity to deploy your strong written advocacy, project management, and analytical skills to make a business impact. Be part of a diverse team of recognized leaders in their field, with a strong passion for delivering the best for our clients and competing at the highest level.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience in business development, marketing, or communications within legal, financial services, or private funds sectors.
• Strong understanding of complex litigation and the financial services/private funds ecosystem.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience drafting marketing materials, thought leadership, and digital content.
• Ability to analyze matters and identify business development opportunities to promote results, optimize collaboration, and support business growth.
• Proven project management abilities, including managing multiple priorities and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated success in building collaborative relationships across teams and with firm leadership.
• Experience with media relations, event planning, and supporting directory submissions and awards.
• Client-focused approach with a commitment to delivering results.
• Proficiency with social media (especially LinkedIn) and familiarity with SEO and digital marketing.
• High level of professionalism, discretion, and adaptability in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Carefully monitor the group’s matters to identify opportunities to promote results for its first chairs and team.
• Optimize opportunities for collaboration.
• Collaborate with media relations resources (internal and external) to ensure optimal media and social media coverage of our results and our team, including AmLaw Litigators of the Week recognition.
• Support partners in sharing content via LinkedIn.
• Maintain a current database of coverage to leverage for marketing collateral.
• Draft and maintain all marketing collateral, including partner bios – ensuring they are up to date on our story, our results and feature media coverage.
• Draft and maintain website content about the practice.
• Develop and execute a thought leadership plan, publishing the minimum effective amount to support SEO and GEO results and give partners occasional opportunities to reach out to interested clients.
• Support the directory submission process, ensuring we submit our best results for all appropriate rankings and taking a strategic approach to advocating for the most important upward moves.
• Collaborate with the communications team to submit the group and its partners for media-driven awards.
• Collaborate with the events team to execute on all aspects of client entertainment and events in which the group participates.
• Develop content to share internally as appropriate to promote collaboration.
• Develop a plan of action and drive weekly meetings with the Chief Practice Officer and/or Practice Leader to refresh priorities and discuss progress.
• The role will collaborate with the firm’s Communications, Events, Business Development, Talent, Research and Practice Management teams and all of the firm’s other resources to deliver all of the above in a way that is tailored to the needs of the team and the clients and markets it serves.

Benefits

• We offer a full range of elective health benefits including medical, dental, vision and life; robust mental well-being programs; child, family, elder, and pet care benefits; short- and long-term disability and industry leading parental leave benefits, health savings account contributions (w/applicable medical plan), flexible spending accounts, and a 401K program.
• This role will receive compensated time off through our Flexible Time Off program, and paid holidays.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees