Jobs at DLA Piper

Supports emerging growth companies and institutional investors on venture capital financings, M&A, and corporate transactions. Responsibilities include legal due diligence, drafting and negotiating transaction documents, structuring deals, advising on regulatory and governance matters, coordinating closings, managing workstreams, and collaborating with clients, counterparties, investors, and multidisciplinary legal teams.

M&A Associate supporting complex domestic and cross-border transactions from inception through closing and post-closing. Responsibilities include legal due diligence, risk analysis, drafting and negotiating transaction documents, structuring deals, advising on regulatory and governance matters, coordinating transaction parties and closings, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. The role requires Texas bar admission or waiver eligibility, 2–7 years of M&A experience, and direct AmLaw 100 experience. This is an in-office Austin position.

Leads the firm’s employment compliance function by monitoring employment laws, governing HR policies, managing audits and risk mitigation, overseeing mandatory training, preparing statutory filings and compliance reports, and aligning HR systems with legal requirements. Partners with HR, Payroll, Benefits, HR Technology, leadership, and legal stakeholders to implement policy updates, identify compliance gaps, and strengthen processes. The role requires extensive HR compliance expertise, strong communication, organizational skills, and the ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.

Manages client billing operations for a law firm, including global billing processes, monthly close, reporting, issue resolution, client and attorney escalations, and ServiceNow ticket queues. Leads and develops Client Account Analysts, provides training and performance feedback, tracks service metrics, and implements process improvements. Partners with stakeholders to establish billing best practices and leads related projects while ensuring timely, accurate service delivery.

The Of Counsel will lead litigation efforts, especially in pharmaceutical/medical device cases, drafting legal documents, supervising associates, and developing strategies.

Conduct market and competitive intelligence research across global private markets, analyzing investment activity, capital flows, client behavior, investor trends, and competitor positioning. Develop market assessments, opportunity analyses, segmentation strategies, reports, dashboards, and recommendations for firm leadership, partners, and business development teams. Translate quantitative and qualitative insights into actionable growth, client engagement, and strategic planning initiatives.

Design, build, and operate Azure-based data pipelines and integrations. Consolidate data from multiple sources into centralized SQL systems, perform transformations and field mapping, and maintain data warehouse capabilities. Troubleshoot quality, integrity, latency, security, and reliability issues while applying governance, monitoring, and SLA practices. Collaborate with engineers, analysts, and stakeholders in Agile pods to deliver reusable, analytics-ready data assets.

Leads strategic finance and market intelligence initiatives, including client profitability analysis, financial modeling, market and competitor research, business cases, scenario analysis, and growth recommendations. Partners with finance, business development, revenue management, pricing, talent, and analytics teams to support executive decisions. Builds dashboards and KPI frameworks while managing financial analysts and establishing analytical standards.

Supports business development and marketing initiatives for a litigation and regulatory practice group. Responsibilities include preparing pitches, proposals, presentations, and marketing collateral; maintaining CRM records and activity reports; coordinating directories, awards, events, webinars, and sponsorships; tracking budgets and matters; supporting lawyer onboarding; and collaborating with design, communications, digital, lawyers, and BD teams.

Review and manage Outside Counsel Guidelines and engagement terms, identify problematic provisions, propose and negotiate modifications, coordinate stakeholder feedback (OGC, Finance, InfoSec, Privacy, HR), maintain OCG playbook and tracking systems, serve as Intapp subject matter expert, and ensure engagement letter policy compliance.

The role supports marketing and business development efforts for the Data Privacy, Protection and Security, and Labor & Employment areas, collaborating on various initiatives and managing marketing content.

The associate will primarily work with emerging growth companies and institutional investors, focusing on venture capital financings and M&A transactions, while managing complex transactions and providing legal support and compliance.

The Disputes Pursuits & Directories Manager leads business development initiatives by managing RFP responses, collaborating with stakeholders, and enhancing proposal processes to secure new business for the firm.

Lead strategy and delivery for enterprise software engineering and systems integration. Set architecture and engineering standards, manage multi-team portfolios, drive CI/CD, observability, security and operational excellence, oversee budgets and vendors, and develop senior technical management to deliver scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.

Builds, manages, monitors, secures, and operates enterprise infrastructure, cloud systems, applications, and integration points. Responsibilities include hands-on configuration, documentation, disaster recovery planning and testing, system monitoring, maintenance, upgrades, patching, capacity planning, vendor participation, and escalated incident resolution. The role diagnoses root causes, supports high availability and stability, contributes to security and business continuity, and participates in a 24x7 on-call rotation.

Serve as a servant-leader and Agile coach to improve delivery flow and team effectiveness across value streams. Facilitate ceremonies, remove impediments, track Agile metrics (WIP, cycle time), enable prioritization with TPMs/QA, foster collaboration, and drive continuous improvement without owning scope or budget.

Senior legal-billing lead providing full-cycle billing support for complex domestic and global client accounts. Manages surge assignments across regional billing teams, analyzes and prioritizes billing tasks, resolves e-billing rejections, prepares accruals and LEDES files, builds reporting and process improvements, liaises with attorneys and finance counterparts, develops training, and may provide temporary managerial support or act as subject-matter expert.

Lead the Internal Communications team to develop and execute strategic internal communications, advise senior leaders, produce multi‑format content, measure impact, and drive engagement across firm channels.

Lead SecOps functions including threat detection, alert triage, incident response, vulnerability and configuration management, endpoint and network security operations, threat hunting, malware analysis, vendor management, and mentoring a team of security analysts to improve detection and response capabilities.

Junior associate in a corporate energy practice supporting complex energy, infrastructure, and corporate transactions. Duties include legal research and writing, drafting and negotiating transactional documents, assisting with M&A, project finance, joint ventures, and closings, managing client communications, ensuring compliance, and participating in professional development and pro bono work. Hybrid role across U.S. offices with preference for San Diego or New York.