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Lateral Link is assisting a prestigious AmLaw50 firm and repeat client with an *unposted* search for a Corporate M&A Associate to join the firm’s dynamic group.

The ideal candidate will be a mid-level associate (JD years 2 with strong M&A transactional and substantive drafting experience.

A high level of academic achievement and peer law firm experience is required.

This Chambers ranked practice is known for its deep expertise in regulated industries, such as technology and healthcare, and advises clients on complex transactions like public and private M&A and private equity deals.

The firm boasts an exceptional mentoring and professional development program for associates.

If you are interested and qualified, please submit your resume here or email me at

Our client, an elite firm in Columbia, is looking for an Accounts Receivable Specialist to join their team.

This is a temporary position providing coverage for maternity leave, with the potential to transition into a permanent role.

You will support attorneys and clients by applying and reconciling payments, maintaining accurate accounts receivable records, and preparing reports to ensure financial information is handled accurately and professionally. This is not a collections role, but an opportunity to play a key part in supporting day-to-day financial processes.

The ideal candidates will have accounts receivable or accounting experience. Prior law firm or Aderant experience is a major plus.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a respected firm known for its collaborative culture, hands-on training, and strong team support, with the potential for long-term growth.

Please apply to Lateral Link's Bridgeline Solutions ASAP!

Lateral Link is assisting a repeat client and top-ranked Am Law 25 firm in seeking a private investment funds associate with approximately 2–6 years of experience.

The ideal candidate will have experience advising sponsors on the formation, structuring, and operation of private investment funds, including buyout, growth equity, venture capital, real estate, and credit funds. Relevant experience includes drafting and negotiating fund formation documents such as LPAs, LLC agreements, PPMs, subscription agreements, and side letters, as well as advising on sponsor and investor matters, regulatory considerations, and ongoing fund operations.

This is a sophisticated private funds practice with meaningful cross-office collaboration and regular interaction with leading private equity sponsors, asset managers, and institutional investors. Associates receive substantive responsibility, direct client exposure, and hands-on experience across the full fund lifecycle, along with strong long-term partnership and in-house exit opportunities.

If you are interested and qualified, please submit your resume here or email

Lateral Link is assisting a repeat client and top-ranked Am Law 25 firm in seeking a corporate M&A associate with approximately 2–6 years of experience.

The ideal candidate will have experience advising public and private companies, as well as private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, on a broad range of strategic and sponsor-side M&A transactions. Relevant experience includes mergers and acquisitions, stock and asset purchases, leveraged buyouts, platform and add-on acquisitions, joint ventures, minority and growth equity investments, and related corporate governance and transactional matters.

This is a sophisticated, broad-based corporate M&A practice with meaningful cross-office collaboration and substantial client exposure for associates. The practice group provides associates with substantive responsibility, hands-on deal experience, and direct client interaction early in their careers, along with excellent long-term partnership and in-house prospects.

• If you are interested and qualified, please submit your resume here or email

Lateral Link is spearheading a search to fill a unique, unposted opportunity with a repeat client, an elite global law firm seeking a Capital Markets Associate to join the firm's D.C. office.

The ideal candidate will possess 2-5 years of relevant capital markets experience. The candidate should have experience advising on significant capital-raising transactions and U.S./international securities law matters.

This notable group focuses on large, complex deals, including IPOs, high-yield/investment-grade debt, convertible debt, and balance sheet restructurings.

The firm leverages its DC location for regulatory matters with deep government experience, consistently earning top-tier rankings for its transactional, regulatory, and enforcement capabilities.

This prestigious firm also offers a smaller more personal office in the D.C. market.

If you are qualified and interested, please submit your resume here or email me at

Lateral Link is assisting a reputable boutique firm, in its search for a highly credentialed Patent Litigation Associate to join the team.

The ideal candidate will be a junior-midlevel associate, specifically with an electrical engineering or computer science background.

The firm has multiple trials coming up this year, as well as new business that has come in.

The firm is comprised of former BigLaw attorneys and provides an opportunity to work on some major patent litigation matters alongside some of the country's most respected litigators and trial advocates.

The associate will be afforded the opportunity to practice patent litigation at the highest level with other exceptional attorneys in a small-firm environment.

NO billable hours, which has tremendous mentoring and professional development benefits for associates.

Associates have autonomy and given real responsibility from the outset so they can play key role in matters.

Compensation is extremely competitive (and bonuses are typically over market).

If you are interested and qualified, please submit your resume here or email me at

Lateral Link is partnering with a Chambers ranked L&E boutique firm in its search for a Senior L&E Associate.

The ideal candidate would have experience in both the litigation and counseling side of L&E and be able to mentor younger associates.

This firm has a reasonable billable requirement and a collegial and collaborative culture with very little turnover.

If you would like to learn more about this opportunity or any other that I am currently working on, please do not hesitate to contact me at

I would love to discuss the merits of this firm and any other opportunities that I am currently working on that could be a fit.

Lateral Link is assisting a top boutique Chambers ranked law firm with a new *unposted* search for a Complex Litigation Associate to add to the firm's NY office.

The ideal candidate will be a 2022 JD year with litigation experience, either from a large law firm or the DOJ, with excellent academic credentials.

The opportunity provides:

• High-end clients of varying sizes across all industries involved in news-worthy matters
• Leanly staffed matters providing excellent substantive experience for associates compared to most larger firms
• True runway for growth and partnership
• Excellent mentorship and support not only for work generally but also in networking and business development
• Top of the market compensation

This is an opportunity to work on sophisticated matters, gaining substantive experience with an above average runway for growth - all without sacrificing compensation.

The group is in the early stages of reviewing candidates.

If you are interested and qualified, please submit your resume here or email me

Our client, a prestigious Vault 10 firm, is interested in hiring top-notch litigation associates in for its nationally renowned disputes practice in New York. Ideal candidates will have outstanding academic credentials and 2-6 years of complex commercial litigation experience, preferably from a large law firm or an elite litigation boutique.

Litigators with federal clerkship experience are strongly encouraged to apply.

Note: This firm is interested in local attorneys and attorneys open to relocating to the New York City area.

This role offers top-market compensation and the opportunity to work on some of the country’s highest-profile litigation matters.

For immediate consideration, please apply through this posting and email your resume and law school transcript to Marion Wilson at

I am assisting a repeat client and exceptional boutique firm with a new REMOTE opportunity for patent prosecution associate attorneys to join the robust practice,

The firm is seeking all tech backgrounds with about 2-6 years of experience.

Responsibilities include assisting in the drafting of patent applications and other prosecution/counseling matters including drafting opinions, conducting due diligence investigations, and performing freedom to operate and landscape analyses under the supervision of the firm’s partners.

Best firm for diversity

Best firm for minority attorneys

The group works hard yet attorneys are encouraged to make time for outside interests

Their structure promotes sharing work and sharing credit which encourages working as a team and enables putting clients’ interests first

If you are interested and qualified, please submit your resume here or email me at

You got into real estate because you wanted to be close to the deals — the ones you can see going up, the ones that change a skyline, the ones that actually matter to a city.

Instead you're on your third year of reviewing title commitments and redlining lease subordination agreements for a partner who handles the lender relationship and runs the closing call without you.

You know your way around a loan agreement. You've drafted collateral packages, negotiated intercreditor provisions, worked through survey exceptions at midnight. But you're still not the one managing the deal from term sheet to closing.

Atlanta is in the middle of one of the biggest commercial real estate booms in the Southeast — logistics, data centers, mixed-use, multifamily. The capital is here. The developers are here. The lenders are here. You should be running these financings, not just papering them.

A nationally ranked AmLaw firm with one of the deepest real estate practices in the country is adding a mid-level associate to its Atlanta real estate finance team. This is a dedicated real estate platform — not a corporate group that happens to do the occasional financing.

The work includes:

• Structured commercial real estate financings and secured lending transactions
• Drafting and negotiating loan documents, security instruments, and collateral packages
• Managing transactions from inception through closing with direct lender and borrower contact
• Title, survey, and corporate due diligence across complex capital stacks

What you bring:

• 3-5 years of commercial real estate finance experience
• Strong drafting skills — you can turn a loan agreement, not just review one
• Georgia bar required or pending

What you get:

• A real estate practice with enough institutional depth that you're trained, not just staffed
• Direct transaction management responsibility at your level, not five years from now
• A firm that's genuinely invested in its Atlanta office — not treating it as overflow from somewhere else

Apply here directly or send your resume confidentially to

You went to law school because someone told you a technical degree plus a JD was a golden ticket.

They weren't wrong. But three years in, you're starting to wonder if this is what they meant.

You're either stuck in prosecution — drafting office actions at 11pm on the same narrow patent family you inherited as a first year — or you're in litigation, buried in document review, never touching the actual technology.

Most AmLaw firms make you pick a lane. Prosecution or litigation. One or the other.

This isn't that.

A top-tier AmLaw firm with one of the most recognized IP practices in the country is hiring a mid-level patent associate in Boston who can work across both patent prosecution and litigation. That combination is rare at this level — and it's what makes this seat different from every other patent posting you've scrolled past.

The work spans:

• Patent prosecution across AI, software, hardware, semiconductor, and communications technologies
• Patent litigation including ITC proceedings, district court, and PTAB
• Client counseling on portfolio strategy, freedom-to-operate, and competitive intelligence
• Due diligence on IP-heavy M&A transactions

This is a dedicated IP platform in Boston — not a satellite office where patent work gets farmed out from headquarters. The team handles matters for major technology and life sciences clients from origination through resolution.

What you bring:

• 2-5 years of patent experience (prosecution, litigation, or both)
• Technical degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or computer science
• USPTO registration
• Massachusetts bar or eligibility to obtain

What you get:

• The rare chance to build expertise across both prosecution and litigation at a single firm
• A practice where your technical background isn't just a credential — it's what makes you valuable in the room
• Top market salary + bonus

Apply here directly or send your resume confidentially to

Lateral Link is working closely with a top AmLaw firm in Los Angeles regarding its search for a midlevel Labor & Employment Associate Attorney. This position can also be based in San Francisco. You will be mentored by excellent attorneys while you work on sophisticated matters in a growing practice. You will be joining an entrepreneurial practice with tremendous professional development opportunities.

The ideal candidate will have:

· 3+ years of Labor & Employment management-side experience at a large law firm

· Significant defense-side employment litigation experience in matters involving wrongful termination, discrimination, unfair competition, PAGA, and wage and hour claims

· Advice and counseling experience

· Outstanding academic credentials

· A license to practice law in California (active and in good standing)

If you would like to take this exciting next step in your career, please submit your resume here.

Lateral Link is working with a remote corporate boutique firm that is looking to add a couple attorneys to their busy and thriving M&A practice.

The firm is largely built of former Big Law attorneys, and provides reasonable hours and work/life balance.

No portables are required.

The firm offers a flexible remote model and would consider attorneys anywhere on the East Coast.

There is no billable requirement, but rather, a reasonable target.

No portables are required for this position.

Service Partners are welcome to apply for this opportunity as there is no expectation to bring in business either immediately or ever.

The firm promotes and fosters work/life balance and frequently draw attorneys from much larger firms due to their sophisticated and challenging work and flexible model.

If you would like to learn more about this opportunity, please contact me at or 54

We're partnering with a VAULT 25/Am Law 25 firm seeking a Mid-Level Corporate M&A associate to join its Chambers USA Elite-ranked corporate practice in Atlanta.

The firm seeks a corporate attorney with 3–5 years of experience (max sixth-year).

Candidates should have excellent academic credentials and significant experience in sophisticated public and private M&A deals, as well as general corporate and governance matters from a large law firm.

Ideal associates will have worked on strategic M&A deals averaging ~$500M and have some exposure to cross-border transactions.

The firm is considering local candidates and attorneys open to relocating to Atlanta, especially from larger markets.

For immediate consideration, apply through this posting and email your resume and law school transcript to Marion Wilson at

There's a version of California employment law that only exists in the Bay Area, and you're either doing it or you're watching it from the wrong seat.

The companies here don't look like the rest of the country. They're pre-IPO startups doing their first RIF and realizing they have no severance framework. They're public tech companies navigating board-level investigations into workplace culture. They're growth-stage businesses acquiring competitors and discovering the target has wage & hour exposure baked into its contractor model. The employment issues in this market are woven into corporate transactions, regulatory risk, and C-suite strategy in ways that most BigLaw L&E groups never touch.

But at your current firm, you're doing California employment defense and nothing else. Wage & hour class actions, PAGA, single-plaintiff claims — the work is real, but it's the same playbook on repeat. You aren't advising on the employment dimensions of an acquisition. You aren't counseling founders on equity compensation disputes. You aren't getting pulled into the boardroom when a workforce restructuring needs to happen in 72 hours.

An AmLaw 50 firm is building out its employment and labor team across its California offices, with a strong preference for San Francisco and Palo Alto. They want someone who can litigate California employment matters and advise on the transactional and counseling side. This isn't a class action factory — it's a practice that sits at the intersection of employment law and corporate strategy.

The work includes:

• Defending complex wage & hour class actions, PAGA claims, and single-plaintiff matters in California state and federal court
• Advising on employment aspects of M&A transactions and corporate restructurings
• Counseling tech and growth-stage companies on California employment compliance, workforce planning, and executive employment matters
• Class/representative action strategy from pre-litigation through resolution

What you bring:

• 2+ years of California employment litigation experience at a major law firm
• Interest in or exposure to transactional employment work (M&A diligence, workforce restructuring, executive employment)
• Strong legal writing and analytical skills
• California bar admission

What you get:

• A practice that blends litigation and transactional employment work — not just one or the other
• Clients that are tech companies, PE-backed platforms, and high-growth businesses, not a random docket of retail wage & hour cases
• Cravath scale ($260K-$390K depending on class year)

Apply here directly or send your resume confidentially to

Structured Finance Associates | Charlotte | Elite Firm

We're working with a market-leading structured finance team seeking associates with 2–8 years of experience to join its Charlotte office.

This Chambers USA top-ranked practice is a market leader in Structured Finance/Capital Markets—particularly middle-market and broadly syndicated loan CLOs—and regularly advises arrangers, managers, investors, and issuers on complex structuring, execution, and regulatory matters.

The Role:

• Advise on structuring, execution, and closing of CLO transactions
• Focus on middle-market leveraged loan transactions
• Work directly with arrangers, managers, investors, and issuers
• Manage multiple sophisticated transactions in a fast-paced environment
• Join a collaborative, collegial team with strong deal flow

Ideal Candidate:

• 2–8 years of structured finance experience
• Significant exposure to CLOs and/or middle-market leveraged loans
• Strong drafting and negotiation skills
• BigLaw training preferred
• Licensed in a U.S. jurisdiction

Charlotte continues to see meaningful growth in finance and private credit work, and this team sits at the center of that activity.

The firm is considering local candidates and attorneys open to relocating to Charlotte, especially from larger markets.

For immediate consideration, apply through this posting and email your resume and law school transcript to Marion Wilson at .

Lateral Link is assisting a boutique firm with a new unposted opportunity.

This mission-driven real estate practice that stands out in a few ways:

• The firm exclusively focuses transactional real estate, with an emphasis on affordable housing transactions, handling some of the most sophisticated and impactful deals in the city.
• The comp is competitive.
• The team is highly collaborative and offers the kind of mentorship that's often hard to find in big law.
• There's a clear path for advancement, with real opportunities to grow and build a long-term career within the practice.

This is an especially compelling option if you're looking to leverage your big law training while transitioning into mission-driven work with a positive community impact.

This powerhouse firm offers plenty of work to go around, no billable hours requirement and a financially sound platform (even when there have been historic dips in the market).

The firm is willing to be flexible on work from home arrangements for the right candidate.

For immediate consideration, please apply through this posting or email your resume to

You didn't go into real estate law to work on one slice of every deal and never see the whole picture.

But that's what happened. At your current firm, you're either the financing associate who never touches the JV docs, or the acquisitions associate who hands the deal off the moment the lender gets involved. You've been at this for three, four, five years and you still haven't worked on a transaction from LOI to closing across the full capital stack.

New York real estate is doing things right now that most markets can only talk about — ground-up development, institutional JVs, CMBS and balance sheet financings, portfolio acquisitions, repositioning plays. The work exists. You just need to be at a platform that lets you touch all of it instead of siloing you into one corner.

A top-tier AmLaw firm with one of the most recognized real estate practices in the country is adding a mid-level associate to its New York team. This isn't a finance-only seat or a leasing-only seat. They want someone who can work across the full range of sophisticated commercial real estate transactions.

The work includes:

• Acquisitions and dispositions of institutional-quality commercial assets
• Structured financings including balance sheet, CMBS, and mezzanine
• Joint ventures and fund formation with institutional and private sponsors
• Complex commercial leasing and asset management

What you bring:

• 3-5 years of transactional real estate experience at a major law firm
• Exposure across multiple deal types — not just one narrow lane
• Strong drafting skills and the ability to manage workstreams independently
• New York bar admission

What you get:

• A practice that doesn't silo you — you work across acquisitions, finance, JVs, and leasing
• Deal complexity that matches the New York market, not a regional firm doing the same strip mall closing on repeat
• Cravath scale ($260K-$365K depending on class year) plus discretionary bonus

Apply here directly or send your resume confidentially to

Lateral Link is assisting an elite boutique firm and repeat client with a new search for a Litigation Associate.

The ideal candidate will have 3-6 years of litigation experience.

This Chambers ranked firm attracts big law attorneys who are seeking sophisticated work in a different platform.

This is an opportunity to join the complex commercial litigation group where the associate will do a mix of sophisticated litigation work in a small firm culture.

Associates are given exposure to work with many partners and not just working with one partner.

Excellent academic credentials and peer firm experience are required.

The firm will consider relocation candidates.

Noteworthy Points:

• Attorneys are expected to have a life outside of the office
• The firm is very connected to the community
• The firm itself is very collegial and comprised of down to earth people
• The firm will put resources behind the associate to step up and want to develop in a certain way
• Path to partner is more certain
• Mentorship
• Typically staffed 1 partner and with 1 or 2 other associates working closely together
• 1800 billable hour requirement

For immediate consideration, please apply through this posting or email your resume to