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  • Office:
    Palo Alto
    San Francisco
    Department:
    Executive Assistants

    Wilson Sonsini has an immediate opening for an experienced Executive Assistant to join our Patents & Innovations group. The Executive Assistant will perform specialized and administrative duties for their attorneys (including partners), patent agents, practice area, clients, and the firm, ensuring client services and satisfaction are attained in all areas. This exciting opportunity is available as a hybrid work schedule.

  • Office:
    Multiple locations
    Practice:
    General Corporate

    If you want to represent companies at all stages of development in a diverse range of emerging and disruptive technologies, join our Corporate team. You will need an understanding of blockchain technology and markets as well as 3-6 years of experience advising crypto and web3 companies on transactions including: venture capital financings; crypto token, digital asset and NFT issuances; primary and secondary sales of crypto tokens and digital assets; or creation of offshore structures related to crypto token and digital asset issuances. Ideally, you will sit in our SF office. We are also open to candidates in LA, NY & DC.

  • Office:
    Palo Alto
    San Francisco
    Seattle
    Practice:
    Technology Transactions – IT

    Our dynamic Technology Transactions Group (TTG) has an excellent opportunity for self-motivated and entrepreneurial individuals with a strong interest in technology companies at all stages of growth. In addition to 7+ years of experience in intellectual property transactions, we are looking for a non-partnership track candidate with a demonstrated interest in a career focused on intellectual property and commercial transactions. If you enjoy training associates as well as working as part of and helping to build and grow a national team, want to hear from you.

    The TTG team focusing on Information Technology primarily works on structuring, drafting, and negotiating a variety of intellectual property and commercial transactions. You will also work on the intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, financings, and other multidisciplinary transactions.

  • Office:
    Palo Alto
    Department:
    Facilities Operations

    The firm is searching for a Facilities Management System Analyst to join the Real Estate and Workplace Services team. This role will oversee and manage the various software platforms utilized by the firm as a part of its various facilities operations. We highly encourage you to apply if you are someone who is highly flexible and can manage multiple responsibilities. This is an exciting opportunity to work closely with the Director of Facilities Operations at the firm. This position is available as a hybrid work schedule for our Palo Alto Headquarter office.

  • Office:
    Brussels
    Practice:
    Antitrust and Competition

    Wilson Sonsini’s European competition team is hiring law clerks for a six-month period starting as soon as possible. The firm offers a competitive salary package.

    Based in Brussels and London, the European competition team assists clients in the fields of merger control, cartel investigations, horizontal collaborations, vertical agreements, abuse of dominance, digital platform regulations, and other adjacent regulatory areas. Law clerks in the European competition team have the opportunity to participate in all aspects of the firm’s competition practice, as well as to take on significant responsibility and work directly with senior attorneys. The European competition team values excellence and collegiality, and works closely with the firm’s global antitrust and competition practice.

  • Office:
    Brussels
    Practice:
    Data, Privacy, and Cybersecurity

    Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati’s European privacy & cybersecurity team in Brussels, Belgium is hiring law clerks for a six-month period starting as soon as possible. The firm offers a competitive salary package.

    The European privacy and cybersecurity team advises clients of all sizes across a wide range of sectors, including AI, finance, technology, life sciences, the Internet of things, social networks, connected mobility, and biotechnologies. The interns work in a highly motivating and challenging environment on exciting, cutting-edge development and expansion projects involving all aspects of EU privacy and data protection law and other data regulatory legislations. You will have the opportunity to participate in all aspects of the data regulatory practice, as well as to take on significant responsibility and work directly with senior attorneys, including former French and U.S. regulators.

  • Office:
    Washington, D.C.
    Practice:
    National Security

    If you are a dynamic attorney with 3-5 years of government contracts and grants experience, join our cutting edge National Security practice in Washington, DC. We value highly skilled communicators who work well as part of a team. Bring your experience with OTAs, the SBA and SBIR rules, GSA/FSS programs and financial assistance agreements to this exciting opportunity. You will work alongside team members that handle foreign investment, export controls, sanctions, FCC and FAA (among other related topics).

  • Office:
    Multiple locations
    Department:
    Finance and Accounting

    Wilson Sonsini is looking for an enthusiastic and energic Client Intake Manager to join the Finance Department. This is an exciting opportunity to work on and enhance the intake and set up process of new clients and matters in line with client requirement, firm financial policies, and billing processes. This role is available as a hybrid work schedule for immediate hire.

  • Office:
    Seattle
    Practice:
    Complex Litigation

    Please join Wilson Sonsini’s nationally recognized litigation department! We are seeking candidates for associate positions who are currently completing a top clerkship or are looking to lateral with 2 to 6 years of broad-based experience in civil litigation. Clients span a broad range of industries including technology, life sciences, and others.

  • Office:
    Multiple locations
    Department:
    Human Resources

    We are seeking a collaborative and strategic HR Business Partner to join our team. In this key role, you will leverage your expertise in employee relations, compensation planning, performance management, and employee development. We are looking for a highly skilled individual with a strong understanding of HR best practices and the ability to navigate complex situations with confidence and professionalism. You will play a vital role in ensuring legal compliance, fostering a positive and inclusive workplace culture, that supports employee well-being and drives organizational success.

Wilson Sonsini fosters a collaborative, team-oriented working environment in which we provide legal and business advice to some of the world’s most innovative technology, life sciences, and growth companies at all stages of their development. We constantly strive to add experienced and skilled attorneys to make practicing a challenging and rewarding experience.

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