Business Development Assistant – BD CORE

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 Business Development Assistant – BD CORE is an integral part of Latham’s Business Development team. This role will be responsible for providing administrative support to the global Business Development (BD) department, while providing a high level of customer service to internal and external clients. This role will be located in our Chicago 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:

• Staying abreast of firm resources, contacts, and subject matter experts to provide alternative solutions when a request cannot be fulfilled via the designated BD CORE team or can be fulfilled more efficiently through an alternative resource
• Entering all assigned service requests into the ServiceNow ticketing system and monitoring tickets from open to close status, ensuring all service level agreements are met
• Learning Latham-specific tools and applications as necessary to perform certain research or other related job duties
• Supporting the global BD department with a suite of core services, including biography edits, client and competitor research and analysis, utilizing CapitalIQ, Pitchbook, and other publicly available resources, research for client seminars and client events, marketing collateral support, including updates to client presentations, pitch documents, directory submissions, and newsletters, CRM research, updates, and data entry, updating and producing expense and invoice reports, and document conversion and formatting (Word and PPT)
• Assisting with special projects when necessary
• Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains 
  
  

We’d love to hear from you if you:

• Demonstrate well-developed and professional interpersonal skills, as well as the ability to interact effectively with people at all organizational levels of the firm
• Possess excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• Display the ability to work in a team environment with a customer-service focus
  
  

And have:

• A high school diploma or an equivalent
• A bachelor’s degree or an equivalent in a related field, preferably
• A minimum of one (1) year of professional services or law firm experience, 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:

• Healthcare, life and disability insurance
• A generous 401k plan
• At least 11 paid holidays per year, and a PTO program that accrues 23 days during the first year of employment and grows with tenure
• Well-being programs (e.g. mental health services, mindfulness and resiliency, medical resources, well-being events, and more)
• Professional Development 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.

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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. 

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