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Chicago office of an AmLaw firm seeks corporate advisory associate attorney with 4-6 years of transactional experience focused in the Finance and Banking area. Legal

The candidate should have excellent writing and analytical skills, along with a strong academic background.

This firm is rapidly expanding into new locations and acquiring top talent. It is no longer just a Chicago-based firm, and instead has become an international law firm. It has a reputation as being a very profitable and busy firm. Its clients are the Who's Who of corporate America, as well as a slew of high technology companies. It is a full-service firm, and still has one of the best tax practices in the country. Other strong areas of the firm include corporate, real estate, intellectual property, and governmental affairs. The environment is not uptight, but you are expected to produce top-quality work. Most lawyers continue to support each other and are quite happy. Doors are open for lawyers interested in discussing both work-related and personal issues, and everyone seems to get along with one another. They are selective and would only hire the best and brightest, but candidates from top regional schools are welcome.

Corporate - General

Full-Time

Chicago office of an AmLaw firm seeks corporate advisory attorney with 3-5 years of transactional experience focused in the Finance and Banking area. Legal

The candidate should have excellent writing and analytical skills, along with a strong academic background.

This firm is rapidly expanding into new locations and acquiring top talent. It is no longer just a Chicago-based firm, and instead has become an international law firm. It has a reputation as being a very profitable and busy firm. Its clients are the Who's Who of corporate America, as well as a slew of high technology companies. It is a full-service firm, and still has one of the best tax practices in the country. Other strong areas of the firm include corporate, real estate, intellectual property, and governmental affairs. The environment is not uptight, but you are expected to produce top-quality work. Most lawyers continue to support each other and are quite happy. Doors are open for lawyers interested in discussing both work-related and personal issues, and everyone seems to get along with one another. They are selective and would only hire the best and brightest, but candidates from top regional schools are welcome.

Corporate - General

Full-Time

Chicago office of our client seeks trade and supply chain finance associate attorney with 2-6 years of experience. The candidate will have a focus on representing borrowers, lenders, sellers or purchasers in US and cross-border trade finance, supply chain finance, commodity finance, factoring, receivables monetization, trade receivables securitization, asset based lending or other similar products. A solid background in finance is a must. Legal

The candidate must have strong law school academic credentials.

The longstanding Midwest law office opened one-hundred and thirty-one years ago. Areas of expertise include finance, corporate, and litigation law. A sizable group of accomplished attorneys comprise the Midwest law practice. Attorneys are involved in a variety of civic, and professional undertakings year long. Besides, they're dedicated to pro-bono work.

Corporate - General

Full-Time

Chicago office of an AmLaw firm 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

The candidate 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.

Corporate - General

Full-Time

Chicago office of an AmLaw firm seeks healthcare corporate associate attorney with 2-5 years of healthcare fraud and abuse experience. The candidate should have compliance and healthcare regulatory counseling and transactional diligence experience with health care provider and physician practice management businesses. Similar experience with life sciences companies is desired. Legal

The candidate should possess outstanding analytical and writing skills as well as working directly with clients and a desire to join a fast paced and dynamic practice area. Outstanding academic credentials are required.

The Midwest law office started their legal practice thirty years ago. More than one-hundred skilled attorneys are on staff. Areas of specialization are transactional and litigation law. Practice areas are comprehensive. Asset-based lending, bank financing, benefits-compensation, capital markets, environmental litigation, securities litigation-professional liability and transactional tax are some of their practice disciplines. Hospitality, financial services, energy and healthcare are a few of their practice industries. The Midwest practice is known for their legal prowess in tax matters of renewable energy projects.

Corporate - General

Full-Time

Chicago office of an AmLaw firm seeks corporate associate attorney with 4-7 years of experience in transactional work and 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.

Corporate - General

Full-Time

Chicago office of an AmLaw firm seeks commercial finance associate attorney with ideally 3-5 years of experience. The candidate must have lending experience plus general experience with a variety of financing transactions, including acquisition financing, leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations. Legal

The candidate should have excellent academic credentials, strong communication and analytical skills, and a client-team focused work ethic.

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.

Corporate - General

Full-Time

Chicago office of an AmLaw firm seeks mid-level corporate associate attorney with 4+ years of transactional experience in private practice. The candidate will work on a wide variety of corporate matters, including: mergers and acquisitions; securities offerings; public company and large private company counseling; corporate finance and board and committee counseling. Legal

The candidate should be self-starters who are detail oriented and possess excellent written and oral communication skills.

Founded in 1914, this law firm consistently delivers outstanding results in corporate transactions and secures major litigation victories for clients from the trial court level to the United States Supreme Court. More than 400 attorneys located in Chicago, Dallas, New York, and Washington, DC, offer substantial experience in a broad range of legal areas. Their dedication and unwavering commitment to clients, to the Bar, to the people, and to public service has contributed to the firm's growth and prosperity. Clients ranging from Fortune 100 international conglomerates to small and medium-sized businesses from around the world trust this law firm with their most complex and challenging matters. In the public sector, the firm represents a variety of state and local governmental entities. Practice areas include bankruptcy, real estate, healthcare, corporate, environmental, intellectual property, and labor and employment, among others.

Corporate - General

Full-Time

Chicago office of an AmLaw firm seeks corporate finance associate attorney with 3+ years of transaction experience with a primary focus on leveraged finance and experience in a nationally recognized law firm. Legal

The candidates must have excellent academic credentials and a can-do work ethic.

Associates say that this Vault 20 law firm offers consistently substantive work across all levels of seniority and a collegial atmosphere. The prestigious firm, which has offices located across the country, provides valuable training and abundant mentorship opportunities to its associates, as well as a partner-track atmosphere that strives for high associate retention. Associates also praise the firm for its generous pro-bono and face-time policies.

Corporate - General

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