Managing Attorney - Regional (2442-437)

WilmerHale is a leading, full-service international law firm with 1,000 lawyers located throughout 12 offices in the United States and Europe. Our lawyers work at the intersection of government, technology and business, and we remain committed to our guiding principles of providing quality, excellent legal and client services; developing diversity among our lawyers and staff and cultivating an environment that promotes an ambitious spirit, collaboration and collegiality by drawing on the extraordinary talents and dynamic experience of our lawyers. Our goal is to reflect the diversity of our clients and the communities in which we practice.

About the Role

The Managing Attorney - Regional serves as a senior procedural advisor and operational leader in the Managing Attorney's Office ("MAO"). The Managing Attorney - Regional advises attorneys and case teams on litigation, arbitration, appellate, and regulatory proceedings by researching and analyzing procedural issues; advising on procedural strategy, court rules, filing requirements, court practices, and deadline calculations; reviewing filings and related materials; and developing practical solutions to complex procedural questions. The Managing Attorney - Regional promotes sound litigation practices, procedural compliance, informed decision-making, and risk mitigation.

The Managing Attorney - Regional oversees the daily workflows of assigned offices and core MAO services, including court filings, docketing, calendaring, court services, service of process, personnel supervision, and the MAO's knowledge, experience, and analytics capabilities. The Managing Attorney - Regional ensures that filings, deadline calculations, calendar entries, and other litigation-related tasks are completed accurately, on time, and consistent with applicable rules, court practices, procedures, and Firm standards.

The Managing Attorney - Regional combines substantive legal and procedural acumen with practical leadership and personnel management. The Managing Attorney - Regional develops MAO personnel, resolves operational challenges, and translates complex requirements into useful guidance for attorneys, clients, and colleagues.

The Managing Attorney - Regional shares responsibility with the other department leadership for departmental operations, staffing, resource allocation, service delivery, establishing priorities, advancing initiatives, and guiding the MAO's long-term direction.

The Managing Attorney - Regional demonstrates a strong commitment to professionalism by setting clear expectations and ensuring the delivery of high‑quality service; fosters and reinforces a positive, solution‑oriented ('can‑do') approach across the team; and ensures effective support of internal departments, external clients, and vendors by modeling and requiring clear, courteous communication through electronic correspondence, telephone, and in person interactions.

What You Will Be Doing

Procedural Guidance

• Advise attorneys and case teams on procedural and strategic issues in litigation, arbitration, appellate matters, and regulatory proceedings.
• Research and analyze federal, state, local, and electronic filing rules, including individual judges' rules, requirements, procedures, practices, standing orders, and filing requirements, with attention to developments that trigger filing, calendaring, or other procedural obligations for case teams or MAO operations.
• Provide technical guidance and practical advice on civil and appellate procedure; court rules, local rules, standing orders, filing requirements, court practices, procedural strategy, and deadline calculation and calendaring.
• Review court filings and related documents for accuracy, completeness, and compliance with applicable rules and filing requirements.
• Prepare and present CLEs, training programs, written guidance, and other educational resources.

Operations and Leadership

• Lead assigned MAO operations, including court filings, docketing, calendaring, court services, service of process, and related support functions.
• Ensure that court filings, deadline calculations, calendar entries, and other litigation-related tasks are completed accurately, on time, and consistent with applicable rules, court practices, procedures, and Firm standards.
• Oversee processes for identifying and responding to court documents, notices, orders, and other events that trigger filing, calendaring, or related procedural obligations.
• Coordinate staffing, workloads, resources, and coverage across offices and time zones to support service delivery and continuity.
• Share responsibility with the other Managing Attorney - Regional and senior department staff for departmental operations, staffing coordination, resource allocation, and service delivery across offices.
• Work with the Counsel - Managing Attorney, the other Managing Attorney - Regional , and senior department staff to set departmental priorities, advance initiatives, plan resources, and guide the MAO's long-term direction.

Knowledge, Experience, and Analytics

• Develop and maintain the MAO's knowledge-management and experience-management resources and services.
• Capture, organize, and share procedural guidance, court practices, precedents, filing resources, and institutional knowledge.
• Help attorneys and MAO personnel identify and apply relevant institutional knowledge, prior experience, and analytical resources to current matters.
• Source, evaluate, and synthesize internal and external data concerning courts, judges, litigation activity, filing practices, workloads, and MAO services.
• Use data and analytics to support case teams, departmental planning, resource allocation, Firm initiatives, and business development.
• Collaborate with knowledge management, experience management, research, innovation, technology, data, and other business-professional teams to improve access to reliable information and institutional experience.

Team Development and Collaboration

• Supervise, recruit, train, mentor, and develop assigned MAO personnel.
• Monitor work through completion and hold personnel accountable for accurate, timely, and high-quality results.
• Promote ownership, collaboration, accountability, and consistent management practices across the MAO.
• Build productive relationships across offices and with attorneys, business professionals, courts, agencies, vendors, and other service providers.