Attorney Development Coordinator

Position Summary

We have the opportunity for an experienced Attorney Development Coordinator to join the firm’s expanding Talent department. This role serves as the primary administrative coordinator for AD Department projects and initiatives. The role interacts regularly with members of the AD Department and other departments and offices throughout the firm. The successful candidate must reside proximate to Kansas City, MO, Atlanta, GA, or Raleigh, NC and this role will be hybrid.

Essential Functions

• Stays informed about the AD Department’s main projects, initiatives, and activities, including the status of each.
• Carries out logistical tasks related to AD programs and initiatives. Examples include:
• Coordinating details relevant to AD-related programs, including rosters, travel, hospitality, and communications.
• Coordinating logistics associated with hiring professional-development-related experts (such as speakers and career coaches), event services providers, and vendors for branded promotional items or gifts.
• Serving as the “producer” for various virtual meetings on a variety of platforms.
• Working with the Knowledge & Innovation Department to ensure the Department’s intranet page remains organized and up-to-date.
• Creating PowerPoint presentations and other documents in collaboration with (and for use by) AD supervisors.
• Locates and synthesizes information for AD-related projects and initiatives. Creates, maintains, and updates spreadsheets and organizational systems with AD-related data and documents. Examples include:
• Maintaining and updating the firm’s ABA membership roster.
• Maintaining and updating spreadsheets with detailed information for current or future AD programs and initiatives.
• Maintaining and updating the Department’s project list.
• Maintaining and updating platforms for large scale initiatives, including Performance Evaluations and the Competency Framework.
• Serves as primary administrator for certain attorney development and education projects. Examples include:
• Administering all aspects of the process for securing and reporting Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit in multiple states for AD programs where CLE is desired.
• Administering (or working collaboratively with others to administer) digital platforms and other applications used to facilitate attorney development.
• Executes a variety of administrative tasks, including:
• Submitting invoices and expenses on behalf of the AD Department and reconciling firm credit card charges, all in accordance with the Department’s operations budget.
• Large and small mailing / Fed Ex projects to any of the firm’s 53 offices around the globe.
• Making travel and meeting arrangements for the AD Department as needed.
• Serving as a point of contact for other firm administrative departments.
• Keeps supervisors abreast of potential problems as they develop; seeks advice as needed.
• Engages in personal professional development activities.
• Actively seeks to understand the attorney experience, the legal industry and trends in professional developmentS.
• Develops and maintains an understanding and appreciation for well-being in the legal profession for both attorneys and staff. Demonstrates a commitment to the ABA Well-Being Pledge and the importance of self-care.
• Exhibits a genuine interest in learning about and advancing the personal and professional development of the firm’s attorneys and staff.
• Other duties as assigned by Department leadership.
  
  

Requirements

Firm Elements

• Communication: Able to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with individuals both in and outside of the AD Department.
• Client Focus: Focus on providing excellent client service to team members, attorneys, and staff.
• Integrity: Maintains confidences and fosters an ethical work environment.
• Respect for Others / Values Diversity: Interacts effectively with people who have different values, cultures, or cultural backgrounds.
• Teamwork: Able to build relationships with individuals both in and outside of the AD Department to meet goals and objectives.
  
  

Position Elements

• Attendance and Punctuality: Lives within the attendance policy and maintains prescribed working hours. Is available to periodically work before or after hours and to travel to AD events.
• Attention to Detail: has a detail-oriented and proactive approach to projects.
• Flexibility: Performs a wide variety of tasks and changes focus quickly and as the need arises. Ability to work well with minimal supervision.
• Functional / Technical Skills: Has the functional and technical knowledge and skills to do the job at a high level of accomplishment; produces complete and accurate work.
• Quality: Maintains the high standards set by the AD Department leadership.
• Learning: Demonstrates ongoing willingness to refine skillsets and pursue new areas of knowledge.
• Hybrid Work Environment: Comfortable and proficient at performing work from locations other than a firm-provided office.
  
  

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor’s degree required or at least three years of related experience at a law firm, management, or professional services organization or government agency.
  
  

Skills

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret documents such as survey questionnaires and results, financial reports, and data from multiple sources.
• Ability to write both routine and specialized audience-appropriate reports and correspondence to internal and external constituents.
• Ability to speak effectively before Firm attorneys and staff, and external groups and/or individuals.
• Ability to proactively carry out written or oral instructions. Willingness to ask questions when something is not clear.
• Comfortable working in a hybrid environment and participating in meetings via videoconference platforms.
• Capable of and interested in learning and becoming proficient in new technologies designed to make the AD Department run more efficiently.
• Travel / Extra Duty Work Assignments
• This role may require up to 10% cross-country travel to attend firmwide events and AD events.
• Ability to periodically work both before and after normal business hours to coordinate the implementation of AD Department programs and initiatives.
  
  

Benefits

Ogletree Deakins offers a robust suite of benefits for our Staff including: Paid Time Off, Paid Sick Leave, a 401(k) matching program, Profit Sharing, Paid Holidays, Paid Parental Leave, affordable Health and Life Insurance including Dental & Vision coverage, Health Savings Account /Flexible Spending Accounts to help offset the cost of dependent care and/or health care expenses, Tuition Reimbursement and an Employee Assistance Program.

Contact Information

If you have questions, please e-mail Katherine Manus at katherine.manus@ogletree.com with “Attorney Development Coordinator" in the subject line. Please note, applications submitted via e-mail will not be considered.

Firm Overview

Ogletree Deakins is one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management in all types of employment-related legal matters. Premier client service, as outlined in the firm’s Client Pledge, is one of the firm’s top priorities and a cornerstone of its core values. Best Law Firms® has named Ogletree Deakins a “Law Firm of the Year” for 13 consecutive years. In the 2024 edition, the publication named Ogletree Deakins its “Law Firm of the Year” in the Employment Law - Management category. Ogletree Deakins has more than 950 attorneys located in 59 offices across the United States and in Europe, Canada, and Mexico. The firm represents a diverse range of clients, including many of the Fortune 50 companies in the U.S.

We are fully committed to the importance of diversity within the legal profession, as well as all workplace environments and strongly encourage the interest of diverse candidates in the firm.

Equal Opportunity Employer.