The Lateral Partner Recruiting and Integration Coordinator shall support the Strategic Expansion Team in all aspects related to the recruitment, onboarding and successful transition and integration of member-level (partner) attorneys and lateral groups. The Firm’s integration program is designed to create a welcoming environment in which a new attorney receives the resources and support needed to fully, effectively and expeditiously become a productive member of the Firm. In addition, the integration program seeks to assure that the Firm and its existing attorneys are impacted positively from a cultural and productivity standpoint by the addition of the new attorney.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Support partner recruitment team by scheduling interviews and entering and tracking candidate data.
- Work collaboratively with the firm’s Marketing Department to prepare recruiting materials.
- Assist with tracking market data using firm-licensed software and legal publications on lateral movement and intelligence.
- Facilitate flow of information from recruitment team to integration team to ensure efficient and thorough onboarding and integration.
- At direction of Integration Director, prepare engagement letters and other relevant transition documents when needed.
- Using the new attorney’s individualized Lateral Integration Plan, schedule check in meetings between new attorney and Integration Director and new attorney and Practice Group and/or Department Chairs and track completion of the same.
- Support the Integration Director and new attorney in execution of the Lateral Integration Plan, including tracking attendance of new attorney at various practice group, department, office and industry team meetings.
- In collaboration with the firm’s Finance Department, assist with the collection and maintenance of data sets from information provided by the lateral; organize data, clean, and transform data into needed formats for further analysis by Finance Department.
- Assist in producing periodic long-term studies from collected historical data to measure successfulness and predict future results; assist with presentations and visual depictions of study conclusions.
Experience and Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree from four-year college or university
- Strong computer and technical skills
- Provides exceptional client service
- Maintains confidence of sensitive information at all times
- Works well independently and on a team
- Produces detailed work without errors
- Highly organized and efficient
- Ability to read and interpret general business documents, instructions and manuals and effectively communicate business correspondence verbally and in writing
Cozen O’Connor is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disabled and veterans.
Cozen O'Connor actively welcomes applicants who have previously left the workforce and are looking to return to their careers. Gaps in experience are not penalized.
Cozen O’Connor is committed to employing a diverse complement of attorneys and staff, and to fostering greater inclusion in the legal profession. We understand the organizational effectiveness that comes from welcoming and valuing differences within the firm, and we know that assembling a team with a rich diversity of perspectives and experience is necessary to provide the highest quality legal service. We encourage candidates to apply and join us in this effort.