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Chicago office of our client seeks mid-level corporate associate attorney with 3-6 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions. Legal

Must have transferable skills and strong 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.

Chicago office of our client seeks corporate attorney with 2+ years of experience. The candidate will join the Real Estate Capital Markets Group. Must have experience drafting organizational and offering documents, along with significant experience with fund formations (real estate preferred) and joint ventures (real estate preferred). Should 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.

Chicago office of our client seeks mid-level to senior corporate attorney with 4-6 years of experience. The candidate will be producing acquisition, equity and related documents in a client-ready format and running key aspects of transactions, including supervising due diligence and more junior members of the deal team, coordinating specialty areas of a transaction, negotiating and revising key arguments, handling client communications, and generally working with partners as a key senior member of deal teams and client relationships. Should have focus on mergers and acquisitions, private equity matters. Hands on drafting and negotiating experience for complex mergers and acquisitions transactions is required. Legal

Must have strong oral and writing skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with clients, opposing counsel and others, as well as superior organizational skills.

This Chicago-based law firm with more than 100 lawyers has established itself as a great place to work for those who want to do quality work and, at the same time, give back to their community. Its lawyers come from Harvard, Northwestern, University of Illinois, as well as other regional law schools. The firm focuses on complex litigation matters and sophisticated business transactions, particularly litigation, business counseling for startups and other established companies, trusts and estates, and complex securities and finance matters. The firm has sophisticated clients, provides its associates with great opportunity to succeed, and provides a very collegial and supportive environment for all of its attorneys. Associates are hired in specific departments, but they are free to find their niche in a particular practice area or align themselves with a specific partner. This firm is the best place to work for someone who is looking for an alternative to the conservative and stodgy big-law firm environment. Compensation is tops for Chicago.

Chicago office of our client seeks attorney with 5+ years of experience in handling private equity and/or private target mergers and acquisitions work. Legal

Associates praise this firm for its high-quality work and high-quality associates, both of which they say foster an outstanding work environment. The firm undertakes initiatives to help build comradery amongst new associates, while partner relationships are generally positive, with partners offering invaluable feedback to newer associates. The firm is also cited for its flexible facetime policies and work-life balance.

Chicago office of our client seeks fund formation associate attorney with preferably 3-6 years of experience with private fund managers. The candidate should have experience drafting or reviewing private offering materials. 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.

Chicago office of our client seeks mid-level mergers and acquisitions and private equity attorney with 3+ years of transactional experience. The candidate should preferably have experience representing financial sponsors and strategic buyer/sellers in connection with leveraged buyouts, sell-side transactions, growth equity and minority investments, and related strategic transactions, including preparation of acquisition/disposition agreements and related closing documents and closing transactions. Experience with capital formation, partnerships and finance 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.

Chicago office of our client seeks mid-senior mergers and acquisitions and private equity attorney with 5+ years of transactional experience. The candidate should preferably have experience representing financial sponsors and strategic buyer/sellers in connection with leveraged buyouts, sell-side transactions, growth equity and minority investments, and related strategic transactions, including preparation of acquisition/disposition agreements and related closing documents and closing transactions. Experience with capital formation, partnerships and finance 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.

Chicago office of our client seeks mid-level corporate associate with 4-6 years of transactional experience. The candidate should have experience of private equity and/or mergers and acquisitions work, in specific, at a nationally recognized law firm. Legal

The ideal candidate will have strong drafting, analytical and interpersonal skills, along with the desire to take on a lead associate role in transactions.

This is one of the youngest, as well as one of the most prestigious, of Chicago's major law firms. This firm has a strong entrepreneurial bent, and since its inception has grown tremendously with the explosive rise of startups and emerging technology companies. The firms and specializes in litigation, corporate, finance and real estate law. Instead of Fortune 500 companies as clients, the firm primarily relies on the historical base of entrepreneurial, diversified small clients that have grown quickly with the firm. Likewise, the slowdown of the high tech industry has constricted the firm's growth, and some say the growth will slow down, or perhaps decline, before the activity pick up again. But the firm is on solid ground and will once again ride the wave to greater success. Be assured that the firm does have its share of large corporate companies as clients. Because the partners are mostly younger than their counterparts at other firms, the place feels less institutional and hierarchal. Just about all associates bill over 2000 hours per year, but bonus is above 2200, to which the firm strictly adheres. Compensation is top market. Attorneys at the firms take the practice of law very seriously, and put out a great product for the clients. Accordingly, work is the primary focus of the lawyers at the firm, and the firm is not a place for the weak or timid, which is not to say people there are not nice. Both partners and associates leave their doors open and are approachable. You must have stellar academic credentials and meaningful law firm experience to work here. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to work hard, produce great work product, and get highly compensated in the process.