Openings

Office:

Multiple locations

Department:

Innovation

The Senior Lead Generation Specialist will be a key member of Wilson Sonsini’s Innovation Department, responsible for driving growth for newly introduced innovations, pricing models, and digital programs. The Senior Specialist will also be expected to grow into a broader sales role, capable of handling end-to-end client engagement from sales leads to closings. This strategic role requires a self-starting individual with strong leadership skills, who can work cross-functionally and determine how to best reach, educate, nurture, and drive action from our target client personas.

Office:

Multiple locations

Department:

Innovation

The Lead Generation Specialist will be a crucial team member in Wilson Sonsini’s Innovation Department, responsible for driving sales lead growth for newly introduced innovation, pricing models, and digital programs. The Lead Generation Specialist will also be trained to grow into a broader sales role, capable of handling end-to-end client engagement from sales leads to closings. This strategic role requires a self-starting individual who can work cross-functionally and determine how to best reach, educate, nurture, and drive action from our target client personas.

Office:

Palo Alto

San Francisco

Department:

Finance and Accounting

Wilson Sonsini is seeking an experienced revenue manager to join our growing client accounting team. This is a wonderful opportunity to join a firm that focuses on skill development and departmental collaboration. This position will be responsible for managing the Litigation Department portfolio and will interface extensively with our clients, our partnership and firm senior management. Highly experienced candidates are encouraged to apply.

Office:

Multiple locations

Department:

New Business and Conflicts

Wilson Sonsini has an immediate opening for a Conflicts Attorney. This role will be responsible for assisting with the review, identification and resolution of any potential conflicts issues with respect to clients, matters, and new hires. The Conflicts Attorney will also be conducting comprehensive reviews of firm conflicts of interest reports.

Office:

Palo Alto

San Francisco

Department:

Attorney Recruiting

Wilson Sonsini is seeking a Temporary Legal Recruiting Assistant to join the firm through August, 2024 in our Palo Alto or San Francisco office. This role will support new and growing initiatives and will additionally support the Summer Associate program. The ideal candidate will have experience with event planning, data entry, resume review, and interview scheduling. Strong attention to detail, communication skills, and professional acumen are all highly desired for this role.

Office:

San Francisco

Practice:

Emerging Companies

Corporate

Join Wilson Sonsini’s ECVC practice in San Francisco focusing on emerging companies and the investors who support them! You will lead transactions and interact directly with founders, CEOs, management teams and boards of directors at our company-side clients as well as interact directly with our VC and other investor-side clients. Candidates with a demonstrated interest in these growth industries and 5-7 years of ECVC experience would make a great addition to our team.

Office:

Multiple locations

Practice:

Energy and Climate Solutions

Wilson Sonsini’s Energy & Climate Solutions (ECS) Practice Group is unique in its mission-driven focus on clean energy and climate-friendly projects, technologies, and business models, representing disruptors and innovators and those who finance them. Attorneys in the ECS group pioneered the utility-scale wind and solar industries, helped create residential solar, energy storage, EV charging and carbon removal industries, and are working with project developers, sponsors and investors in across the broad range of clean technologies throughout the United States and abroad. We do not represent the oil and gas industry, LNG terminals or pipeline owners, or vertically-integrated utilities that resist the energy transition, competition, or the climate imperative. We welcome associates with a focus on project finance and/or structured asset-based finance and non-recourse secured lending transactions who want to join our team to work hard and advance the mission.

Office:

San Francisco

Practice:

Trade Secret Litigation

Patent Litigation

We are currently seeking a second to fourth year associate for the San Francisco office to litigate and try IP and technology-focused cases for a career. We handle trade secret, patent, copyright, and other technology-centered commercial disputes for Silicon Valley’s largest companies and cutting-edge start-ups. We have advanced the law repeatedly in key areas. We try cases. Candidates must have excellent academic credentials, as well as top-notch writing, speaking, fact development, and legal research skills. We work collaboratively and seek candidates to learn and run cases.  We prioritize early responsibility and leadership opportunities on our case teams. 

Office:

Multiple locations

Practice:

Patents and Innovations (Counseling and Prosecution)

With the largest Life Sciences-focused patent practice in the world, Wilson Sonsini’s unmatched expertise services a diverse client base from start-ups to established industry leaders on global patent portfolio development and management. Associates learn from the best through early, hands-on experience and comprehensive training and development opportunities. You will draft and prosecute patent applications, prepare patent opinion letters and provide IP counseling to clients as well as supervise junior attorneys and patent agents. We want to hear from you if you have 1-4 years of patent prosecution law firm experience, patent bar membership, and a background in one of the following fields: cell or molecular biology, immunology, biochemistry, bioinformatics, medicinal chemistry, cancer biology, pharmacology, organic chemistry, biophysics, or digital health focused disciplines.

Office:

Multiple locations

Department:

Professional Development

The Legal Education Manager will work closely with the Director of Legal Education & Development; the Chief Professional Development, Engagement & Inclusion Officer; firm management; department and practice group leadership; and the broader PD team to implement relevant, effective, and dynamic legal training programs for our litigation and regulatory departments firmwide.