Manager - Lawyer Career Services

Latham & Watkins is a global law firm consistently ranked among the top firms in the world. The success of our firm is largely determined by our commitment to hire and develop the very best and brightest, creating a team that provides our clients with the highest quality of work and service. We are driven by our core values: respect, innovation, and collaboration.  

The Manager of Lawyer Career Services is an integral part of Latham’s Legal Talent – Career Services team. This role will be responsible for being a key partner in building and enhancing the Latham 'CareerDesign' program, while working closely with the Director of Attorney Career Services, other members of the Career Services, and Latham Alumni teams, in offering Latham lawyers, Latham alumni, and select friends of the firm career coaching services, group coaching, career-programming, in-house networking, and placement support. This role will be located in our London office. Please note that this role may be eligible for a flexible working schedule that allows for a hybrid and in-office presence.

Other key responsibilities include:

• Working with Latham associates, firm alumni, and select friends of the firm in a career coaching capacity
• Helping an attorney define career goals, developing a strategy to pursue them, and supporting an attorney as they enact the strategy
• Providing job search coaching, including CV building, cover letters, networking strategy, interview training, and salary negotiation support
• Creating effective and innovative career-programming for our lawyers and firm alumni which include in-person seminars, career panels, webinars, group coaching, and guest speaker programming
• Identifying, organising, and implementing the expansion of the program to include new people and new resources, which will also include internal marketing of the program’s successes and finding creative ways to promote the resource within the firm
  
  

We’d love to hear from you if you:

• Demonstrate well developed and professional interpersonal skills, including the ability to interact effectively with people at all organisational levels of the firm
• Possess excellent computer and technical skills, including PowerPoint, Excel, and other programs necessary to complete thorough analyses and reports
• Display a strong sense of judgment, the ability to make complicated decisions quickly, and to understand how an issue fits within the firm’s structure
  
  

And have:

• A bachelor’s degree or an equivalent
• Legal qualification and may have practised law, preferably
• Experience as a career coach, career advisor, and/or legal recruiter, preferably
• Experience in a professional services organisation or business, preferably

Successful candidates will not only be provided with an outstanding career opportunity and welcoming environment, but will also be provided with a generous total compensation package with bonuses awarded in recognition of both individual and firm performance. Eligible employees can participate in Latham’s comprehensive benefit program which includes:

• Health insurance as well as group income protection and life assurance
• A pension plan
• Wellness programs
• Employee discounts
• And more!
  

Additionally, we have a range of diversity programming including Global Affinity Groups. These groups provide a firmwide platform to share experiences and advice as well as an opportunity to participate in a supportive network with common interests to help make life at the firm even better.

Latham & Watkins is committed to diversity, equal opportunity, sustainability, and pro bono legal services. We draw from a remarkable wealth of talent to create one of the world's leading law firms, and advance these commitments through the work of our Global Citizenship department. Our lawyers, paralegals, and professional staff worldwide comprise a rich mixture of different races, ethnic backgrounds, religions, sexual orientations, cultures, and primary languages. Our diversity makes us who we are. #MidSenior