Professional Support Lawyer

Professional Support Lawyer Firm Summary

White & Case is an elite global law firm serving leading companies, financial institutions and governments worldwide. Our long history as an international firm means we are perfectly placed to help our clients resolve their most complex legal challenges wherever they may be.

With lawyers and staff operating from more than 47 locations, working in virtually every country of the world, we have invested heavily in building a high-quality full-service practice competing at the top of the market. We are distinguished by our on-the-ground presence in the world’s key financial markets and our strengths in handling complex cross-border work.

It is not just about our global network of offices and shared services centers; it is the global interconnectedness of the Firm that our people, and our clients, value most. We work well together across geographic and practice boundaries. It is one of the reasons we attract and retain cross-border work.

Our lawyers are globally minded, enterprising, collaborative, and committed to excellence. Our people represent 90 nationalities and speak 80 languages.

Our global Practice Solutions teams keep White & Case at the forefront of today’s changing legal landscape. We help lawyers practice smarter as they deliver world‑class client service. Our work ranges from helping the Firm leverage the latest legal, client and market knowledge to providing front‑line support for legal teams in their client work.

The Practice Solutions function is under the leadership of the Chief Innovation Officer and comprises five teams:
Professional Support, Research & Market Intelligence, Practice Technology, Business Intelligence, and Innovation and AI. Our professionals use information management, research, data, technology, and training solutions to help our lawyers work efficiently and collaboratively to benefit our clients.

An experienced US‑qualified securities attorney who has an in‑depth understanding of the needs of transactional securities attorneys as well as the ability to help to develop a US securities knowledge and innovation strategy for the Americas Capital Markets Group (the “Group”) and to shape and influence policy and implement projects to meet the Group’s US securities knowledge needs, with particular focus on US securities law aspects of Equity Capital Markets, including IPOs, SPAC IPOs and corporate governance issues.

The PSL will identify, analyze and monitor developments in the US securities legal and business environment to keep both the Group and its clients up to date and identify areas to develop the Firm’s reputation and practice; provide a wide array of US securities legal and practical expertise to support the Group’s practice (both through responding to fee earner queries and through the mentoring of junior lawyers);

help create, develop and manage the Group’s collection of US securities forms, precedents and research materials; organize, design and deliver Group training both on a local and global basis; work with Group members and the other Business Services departments to identify opportunities to develop business from new and existing clients; and provide other support as needed.

The individual will ideally have been exposed to matters involving US securities law, Equity and Debt Capital Markets, securitizations, and corporate governance issues, and while this is not a necessity, this role will require the individual to pick up a working knowledge of these areas.

Specific responsibilities described below may vary depending on the Group’s needs and the split of work with the existing Capital Markets Professional Support Lawyers in other offices.

• Be a source of legal, market and practical US securities law expertise for all members of the Group and more widely around the Firm, including the provision of direct support for client matters where appropriate
• Work with the Group and the firm’s existing Capital Markets (“CM”) Professional Support team members to identify practice‑related US securities law training…