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Chicago office of an AmLaw firm seeks mid to senior level data protection, privacy and security attorney with experience. The candidate will be handling discrete referral projects independently, and helping to lead more significant projects, working directly with clients and senior partners. Legal

The candidate should have immediately transferable skills and excellent academic backgrounds from nationally-recognized schools.

This Amlaw firm is best known for allowing its associates to find a balanced work load that best suites them. As a result, the company operates with an entrepreneurial culture, offers flexible face-time, and values diversity and a work space inclusive of everyone. This firm is also one that values pro-bono work?encouraging their associates to gain real-life experience and take charge of their own opportunities and success.

Data Privacy

Full-Time

Chicago office of an AmLaw firm seeks data protection, privacy and security associate attorney with 2-4 years of experience at a law firm or in an in-house capacity, and significant substantive experience with privacy or cybersecurity compliance. The candidate should have a strong interest in working in a dynamic privacy/security practice. Prior technical experience or practical experience with privacy or cybersecurity, experience negotiating contract terms related to privacy and cybersecurity obligations, or significant international privacy experience is a plus. Legal

The candidate should have strong analytical and writing skills, good business judgment, and the ability to work collaboratively and independently. Must preferably have immediately transferable skills and strong academic backgrounds from nationally-recognized schools. Should have JD degree.

This Amlaw firm is best known for allowing its associates to find a balanced work load that best suites them. As a result, the company operates with an entrepreneurial culture, offers flexible face-time, and values diversity and a work space inclusive of everyone. This firm is also one that values pro-bono work?encouraging their associates to gain real-life experience and take charge of their own opportunities and success.

Data Privacy

Full-Time

Chicago office of an AmLaw firm seeks labor and employment associate attorney with 2-4 years of experience. The ideal candidate must have litigation experience (discrimination, wage/hour, restrictive covenant and other employment issues), administrative agency experience and day-to-day counseling experience. Traditional labor and/or transactional experience would also be a plus. Legal

The candidate should have strong academic background and writing skills.

This Amlaw firm is best known for allowing its associates to find a balanced work load that best suites them. As a result, the company operates with an entrepreneurial culture, offers flexible face-time, and values diversity and a work space inclusive of everyone. This firm is also one that values pro-bono work?encouraging their associates to gain real-life experience and take charge of their own opportunities and success.

Litigation - Labor & Employment, Labor & Employment

Full-Time

Chicago office of an AmLaw firm seeks mid-level RECM corporate associate attorney with 2-4 years of experience. The candidate should have experience including drafting organizational and offering documents, along with significant experience with fund formations and joint ventures (real estate experience is preferred). Must preferably have specific expertise in tax or securities law. Legal

The candidate should have immediate transferable skills and strong academic backgrounds from nationally recognized law schools, as well as prior experience in a large law firm.

This Amlaw firm is best known for allowing its associates to find a balanced work load that best suites them. As a result, the company operates with an entrepreneurial culture, offers flexible face-time, and values diversity and a work space inclusive of everyone. This firm is also one that values pro-bono work?encouraging their associates to gain real-life experience and take charge of their own opportunities and success.

Real Estate, Corporate - General

Full-Time

Chicago office of our client seeks mid-level trusts and estates associate attorney with 3 -5 years of experience. The candidate will consult with and advise fiduciaries in probate and trust administration, work with clients in connection with contested trust and tax matters, review estate and gift tax returns (including complex reporting and valuation issues), and assist clients in the establishment of private foundations and other charitable vehicles. Must preferably have experience working with ultra high net-worth individuals in the design and drafting of their estate plans, including wills, revocable and irrevocable trusts, powers of attorney, premarital agreements, and other estate planning documents. Should be experienced with family limited partnerships and limited liability companies, shareholder agreements, installment sales, and other related transactions. Admittance to the Illinois Bar is preferred. Legal

One of the nation's oldest, largest and hottest Chicago law firms, with offices in several of the major cities in the U.S. as well as the world. It has one of the best litigation practice groups in the country. The firm is a full service firm, meaning that it has respectable intellectual property, employee benefits, energy, corporate, securities, finance and other practice groups. It has grown tremendously through mergers with other firms, and lateral hires. The firm hires from the best regional law schools, as well as the well know national schools. It is not a law school snob at all, but requires superior grades. Client contact is early, and associates are given as much responsibility as they can handle. But client service is paramount and associates are expected to produce top quality work. Just because you are well compensated, you are not necessarily required to work on weekends, but most lawyers bill well over 2000 hours per year. The work is demanding, but you can feel assured that you are in one of the post prestigious litigation law firms in the country.

Trusts and Estates

Full-Time

Chicago office of an AmLaw firm seeks real estate associate attorney with 2-6 years of experience, including significant experience with acquisitions, dispositions, borrower-side financing, joint ventures and lending matters. The candidate should preferably have admission to the Illinois Bar. Legal

One of the nation's oldest, largest and hottest Chicago law firms, with offices in several of the major cities in the U.S. as well as the world. It has one of the best litigation practice groups in the country. The firm is a full service firm, meaning that it has respectable intellectual property, employee benefits, energy, corporate, securities, finance and other practice groups. It has grown tremendously through mergers with other firms, and lateral hires. The firm hires from the best regional law schools, as well as the well know national schools. It is not a law school snob at all, but requires superior grades. Client contact is early, and associates are given as much responsibility as they can handle. But client service is paramount and associates are expected to produce top quality work. Just because you are well compensated, you are not necessarily required to work on weekends, but most lawyers bill well over 2000 hours per year. The work is demanding, but you can feel assured that you are in one of the post prestigious litigation law firms in the country.

Real Estate

Full-Time

Chicago office of an AmLaw firm seeks fund formation/investment fund corporate associate attorney with 3-5 years of experience in private equity fund formation and related matters. The candidate should preferably have experience (preferably at a large law firm or, in special circumstances, an in-house setting), in assisting private equity fund sponsors on fund formation matters, including the preparation and negotiation of fund private placement memoranda, partnership agreements and related ancillary agreements, reviewing fund documentation on behalf of institutional investors and the related negotiation of fund terms, and/or structuring and drafting governing documents pertaining to private equity fund management companies and general partners. Should have a working knowledge of relevant securities rules and regulations, including the Investment Advisers Act. Experience with private equity "secondary" transactions would also be helpful. Admittance to the Illinois Bar is preferred. Legal

One of the nation's oldest, largest and hottest Chicago law firms, with offices in several of the major cities in the U.S. as well as the world. It has one of the best litigation practice groups in the country. The firm is a full service firm, meaning that it has respectable intellectual property, employee benefits, energy, corporate, securities, finance and other practice groups. It has grown tremendously through mergers with other firms, and lateral hires. The firm hires from the best regional law schools, as well as the well know national schools. It is not a law school snob at all, but requires superior grades. Client contact is early, and associates are given as much responsibility as they can handle. But client service is paramount and associates are expected to produce top quality work. Just because you are well compensated, you are not necessarily required to work on weekends, but most lawyers bill well over 2000 hours per year. The work is demanding, but you can feel assured that you are in one of the post prestigious litigation law firms in the country.

Corporate - Securities and Capital Markets, Corporate - Private Equity

Full-Time

Chicago office of an AmLaw firm seeks fund formation associate attorney with ideally 3-8 years of experience with private fund managers. The candidate should have experience drafting or reviewing private offering materials. Admittance in Illinois is preferred. Legal

The candidate will work in a busy group, be a self-starter and seeks direct client contact.

One of the nation's oldest, largest and hottest Chicago law firms, with offices in several of the major cities in the U.S. as well as the world. It has one of the best litigation practice groups in the country. The firm is a full service firm, meaning that it has respectable intellectual property, employee benefits, energy, corporate, securities, finance and other practice groups. It has grown tremendously through mergers with other firms, and lateral hires. The firm hires from the best regional law schools, as well as the well know national schools. It is not a law school snob at all, but requires superior grades. Client contact is early, and associates are given as much responsibility as they can handle. But client service is paramount and associates are expected to produce top quality work. Just because you are well compensated, you are not necessarily required to work on weekends, but most lawyers bill well over 2000 hours per year. The work is demanding, but you can feel assured that you are in one of the post prestigious litigation law firms in the country.

Corporate - Private Equity

Full-Time

Chicago office of an AmLaw firm seeks employee benefits/ERISA associate with 3-4 years of experience. The ideal candidate should have strong experience with qualified retirement plan issues. Experience with compliance matters is preferred. Experience in health and welfare plan issues and executive compensation issues is also helpful. Admittance to the Illinois Bar is preferred. Legal

One of the nation's oldest, largest and hottest Chicago law firms, with offices in several of the major cities in the U.S. as well as the world. It has one of the best litigation practice groups in the country. The firm is a full service firm, meaning that it has respectable intellectual property, employee benefits, energy, corporate, securities, finance and other practice groups. It has grown tremendously through mergers with other firms, and lateral hires. The firm hires from the best regional law schools, as well as the well know national schools. It is not a law school snob at all, but requires superior grades. Client contact is early, and associates are given as much responsibility as they can handle. But client service is paramount and associates are expected to produce top quality work. Just because you are well compensated, you are not necessarily required to work on weekends, but most lawyers bill well over 2000 hours per year. The work is demanding, but you can feel assured that you are in one of the post prestigious litigation law firms in the country.

ERISA/Executive Compensation

Full-Time

Chicago office of an AmLaw firm seeks senior corporate lending associate attorney with 6+ years of experience. The candidate should preferably have experience working with a broad spectrum of bank and non-bank financial institutions in syndicated and club transactions, both senior and subordinated, involving domestic and international credit facilities for direct and sponsored transactions and leading (with minimal partner supervision) the material aspects of those transactions. Strong deal experience at a large law firm with a particular focus of asset based, commercial and cash flow lending is preferred. Admittance to the Illinois Bar is preferred. Legal

One of the nation's oldest, largest and hottest Chicago law firms, with offices in several of the major cities in the U.S. as well as the world. It has one of the best litigation practice groups in the country. The firm is a full service firm, meaning that it has respectable intellectual property, employee benefits, energy, corporate, securities, finance and other practice groups. It has grown tremendously through mergers with other firms, and lateral hires. The firm hires from the best regional law schools, as well as the well know national schools. It is not a law school snob at all, but requires superior grades. Client contact is early, and associates are given as much responsibility as they can handle. But client service is paramount and associates are expected to produce top quality work. Just because you are well compensated, you are not necessarily required to work on weekends, but most lawyers bill well over 2000 hours per year. The work is demanding, but you can feel assured that you are in one of the post prestigious litigation law firms in the country.

Corporate - General

Full-Time