Legal Operations Specialist

Summary:

Gibson Dunn is a leading global law firm, advising clients on significant transactions and disputes. Our exceptional teams craft and deploy creative legal strategies that are meticulously tailored to every matter, however complex or high-stakes. The Firm's work is distinguished by a unique combination of precision and vision.

Based in the U.S., the Legal Operations Specialist will serve as a project manager facilitating attorney transitions across the Firm. Every lateral arrival, secondment, and departure is a discrete project, and the Specialist will act as its central clearing house — aligning the parties, determining how the work should proceed using the Firm’s process roadmaps as a framework, and driving each transition to completion on schedule.

The role helps ensure that the Firm delivers the highest quality work product to its clients by enabling successful processes for attorneys as they move into, through, and out of the Firm. Each Specialist will carry a primary transition type and cross-train across the others on the team, allowing the function to maintain coverage and continuity through absences and periods of higher volume.

This role reports to the Manager, Onboarding and Offboarding.

Responsibilities include:

• Serving as the central point of coordination for ea