Responsibilities

• Lead the development and execution of the Firm’s public relations strategy, aligning media outreach, thought leadership, and visibility initiatives with priority practices, sectors, and Firm objectives.
• Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with key journalists and editors across national, legal, business, and industry trade publications.
• Secure high-impact media placements that enhance the Firm’s reputation and market positioning.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for media inquiries, managing responses and coordinating with Firm leadership and attorneys as appropriate.
• Draft and oversee press releases, media statements, talking points, and background materials.
• Own the Firm’s communications strategy, including preparedness, response protocols, escalation frameworks, and post-incident review.
• Develop and maintain communications playbooks, templates, and guidance for a wide range of scenarios, including litigation, regulatory matters, cyber incidents, leadership changes, and external events that may impact the Firm.
• Advise Firm leadership in real time on messaging, tone, risk mitigation, and stakeholder communications during high-stakes or time-sensitive situations.
• Coordinate closely with General Counsel, Firm leadership, and outside advisors to ensure consistent and effective communications.
• Provide strategic oversight of the Firm’s awards, rankings, and editorial submissions, ensuring efforts are focused on opportunities that support the Firm’s reputation, practice priorities, and growth objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Public Relations/Communications required.
• Fifteen (15) or more years’ of public relations and communications experience required.
• Must be a highly motivated self-starter, exhibit high degree of initiative and critical-thinking skills and exercise independent judgment in order to establish and manage multiple priorities simultaneously in a demanding, fast-paced, deadline-driven, detail-oriented work environment.
• Must be an excellent writer and business strategist with the ability to identify and establish marketing opportunities in a wide variety of areas to enhance the visibility of the Firm.
• Outstanding interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills. Ability to communicate with courtesy and diplomacy, efficiently follow written and verbal instructions, provide information and maintain effective relationships with a diverse group of attorneys, clients, staff and outside contacts.
• Must be results-oriented and proactive with excellent troubleshooting, problem resolution and follow-through skills.
• Ability to identify and analyze complex marketing issues and problems and to recommend and implement solutions.
• Ability to articulate, work with and challenge the Firm’s attorneys to present appropriate, consistent and quotable messages to both the media and other external audiences.
• Exceptional organizational skills including record keeping, data collection and system information. Ability to compile and analyze complex data and furnish concise, detailed information in report format, written correspondence, e-mail or verbally.
• Work occasionally requires more than 37.5 hours per week to perform the essential duties of the position.

Preferred

• Advanced degree preferred.
• Prior experience working in a large legal or professional services firm is preferred.

Benefits

• We offer an outstanding benefit package which includes: medical/dental/vision, 401k with employer contribution, parental leave, transportation fringe benefit program, back-up care option, generous paid time off policy, and long-term and short-term disability policies.