Job Openings
ATTORNEY OPENINGS - LOS ANGELES
Corporate Associate (mid-level)
We are seeking a motivated attorney with 5–6 years of experience at a top-tier law firm, with a focus on capital markets, securities matters, and mergers and acquisitions.
The ideal candidate will bring strong analytical, drafting, and organizational skills to a collaborative environment and will have the opportunity to work closely with senior attorneys on public company matters and sophisticated transactions. At our firm, we are more than just legal professionals—we are a team of dedicated advocates committed to delivering practical, high-quality solutions for our clients.
The ideal candidate will have substantial experience representing public companies in Exchange Act reporting, disclosure, and corporate governance matters, including annual and quarterly reports, proxy statements, and Forms 8-K, as well as advising on Section 16 and Regulation FD compliance. Candidates should also have meaningful experience representing issuers and underwriters/placement agents in registered public offerings and private securities transactions, including equity and debt offerings. Experience advising late-stage private companies in private financings and IPO preparation is preferred.
In addition, candidates should have meaningful M&A experience, including drafting and negotiating principal transaction documents, conducting and organizing due diligence, and supporting related disclosure and governance matters.
Strong drafting skills, sound judgment, attention to detail, and the ability to manage significant portions of transactions with increasing independence are essential. We are looking for attorneys who are collaborative, responsive, and personable, and who thrive in a collegial, team-oriented environment.
Active California or New York bar membership is required.
At MSK, we value your contributions and offer competitive compensation packages, including merit bonuses and billable hours credit for pro bono work and business development, all while working in a hybrid environment. If you're ready to take your career to the next level with a growing and collaborative firm, we encourage you to apply.
Salary range: $297,000-317,500. Compensation is based on experience, skill, and knowledge.
Labor and Employment Associate
Join Our Dynamic Labor & Employment Team in Los Angeles!
Are you ready to take your career to the next level? Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP seeks a talented 3rd year to senior level Labor and Employment Associate to join our thriving Los Angeles office.
Why Join Us?
- Collaborative and Experienced Team – Work alongside and receive mentorship from over 20 dedicated Labor & Employment attorneys.
- Diverse and Engaging Cases – Get hands-on experience with a wide range of matters, from traditional labor and wage & hour class actions to PAGA lawsuits and employment litigation.
- Client-Facing Opportunities – Play an active role in advising clients on day-to-day employment issues.
What We’re Looking For:
- Strong analytical and writing skills.
- Solid experience managing employment litigation (single-plaintiff and class actions).
- A proactive approach to advising clients on employment matters.
- Outstanding academic credentials and a passion for employment law.
What you can look forward to?
- Competitive Compensation: Salary range of $232,500 - $350,000 (based on experience, skills, and knowledge).
- Career Growth: Expand your knowledge and refine your skills through challenging, meaningful work in a highly respected firm.
If you’re ready to grow with a firm that values your expertise and fosters your success, we’d love to hear from you!
Litigation Associate
Join our dynamic team in Los Angeles as a Litigation Associate! Are you a litigator with 4-5 years of experience and a California law license? We want you to bring your exceptional analytical and writing skills to our collaborative environment. Video game industry experience is a plus.
Our Litigation Department handles cutting-edge and high-profile matters across a range of industries, with a particular focus on intellectual property and entertainment disputes. We represent major players in the video game, film, television, and music industries, as well as a broad range of other leading companies in complex commercial, class action, and other business litigation.
This position offers the opportunity to work on some of the most significant IP and entertainment cases in the country, while also gaining experience across a diverse litigation practice.
At MSK, we value your contributions and offer competitive compensation packages, including merit bonuses and billable hours credit for pro bono work and business development.
If you're ready to take your career to the next level with a growing and collaborative firm, we encourage you to apply. Join us and unlock your potential!
Salary range: $262,500-297,000. Compensation commensurate with experience, skill, and knowledge.
Tax Attorney
Join our sophisticated tax practice in Los Angeles!
Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP (MSK), founded in 1908, is a nationally recognized law firm known for handling complex, high-profile matters across diverse industries. With offices in Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, D.C., MSK is a “go-to” firm sophisticated clients. MSK emphasizes deep understanding of clients’ businesses and long-term partnerships, offering a collaborative culture for attorneys.
We’re seeking a senior tax attorney at the fifth-year to junior-partner level who brings exceptional attention to detail and is eager to grow and learn alongside some of the best tax lawyers in Los Angeles.
Why Join Us?
- Collaborative and Experienced Team: Strong mentorship and direct experience
- Get hands-on experience
- Client-Facing Opportunities: Play an active role in advising clients on day-to-day issues
What We’re Looking For:
- Income tax lawyer with at least 5 years’ experience to support the firm’s UHNW private client practice. Must have strong background in Subchapters K and S of the Code, and familiarity with Subchapter J and QSBS is highly desirable. Tax LLM preferred.
What you can look forward to?
- Competitive Compensation: Salary range of $297,500 - $350,000 (based on experience, skills, and knowledge). Junior partners may be on a different scale.
- Career Growth: Expand your knowledge and refine your skills through challenging, meaningful work.
If you’re ready to grow with a firm that values your expertise and fosters your success, we’d love to hear from you!
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EOE
MSK offers a competitive compensation and benefits package. If you are looking for an opportunity with a growing, collaborative firm, please apply to recruits@msk.com.
attorney openings - NEW YORK
Corporate Associate (mid-level)
We are seeking a motivated attorney with 5–6 years of experience at a top-tier law firm, with a focus on capital markets, securities matters, and mergers and acquisitions.
The ideal candidate will bring strong analytical, drafting, and organizational skills to a collaborative environment and will have the opportunity to work closely with senior attorneys on public company matters and sophisticated transactions. At our firm, we are more than just legal professionals—we are a team of dedicated advocates committed to delivering practical, high-quality solutions for our clients.
The ideal candidate will have substantial experience representing public companies in Exchange Act reporting, disclosure, and corporate governance matters, including annual and quarterly reports, proxy statements, and Forms 8-K, as well as advising on Section 16 and Regulation FD compliance. Candidates should also have meaningful experience representing issuers and underwriters/placement agents in registered public offerings and private securities transactions, including equity and debt offerings. Experience advising late-stage private companies in private financings and IPO preparation is preferred.
In addition, candidates should have meaningful M&A experience, including drafting and negotiating principal transaction documents, conducting and organizing due diligence, and supporting related disclosure and governance matters.
Strong drafting skills, sound judgment, attention to detail, and the ability to manage significant portions of transactions with increasing independence are essential. We are looking for attorneys who are collaborative, responsive, and personable, and who thrive in a collegial, team-oriented environment.
Active California or New York bar membership is required.
At MSK, we value your contributions and offer competitive compensation packages, including merit bonuses and billable hours credit for pro bono work and business development, all while working in a hybrid environment. If you're ready to take your career to the next level with a growing and collaborative firm, we encourage you to apply.
Salary range: $297,000-317,500. Compensation is based on experience, skill, and knowledge.
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EOE
MSK offers a competitive compensation and benefits package. If you are looking for an opportunity with a growing, collaborative firm, please apply to recruits@msk.com.
Labor and Employment Associate
Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP seeks a talented mid-level Labor and Employment Associate to join our thriving New York office. Ideal candidates must have a CA bar license.
Why Join Us?
- Collaborative and Experienced Team – Work alongside and receive mentorship from over 20 dedicated Labor & Employment attorneys.
- Diverse and Engaging Cases – Get hands-on experience with a wide range of matters, from traditional labor and wage & hour class actions to PAGA lawsuits and employment litigation.
- Client-Facing Opportunities – Play an active role in advising clients on day-to-day employment issues.
What We’re Looking For:
- Strong analytical and writing skills.
- Solid experience managing employment litigation (single-plaintiff and class actions).
- A proactive approach to advising clients on employment matters.
- Outstanding academic credentials and a passion for employment law.
- California bar
What you can look forward to?
- Competitive Compensation: Salary range of $232,500 - $350,000 (based on experience, skills, and knowledge).
- Career Growth: Expand your knowledge and refine your skills through challenging, meaningful work in a highly respected firm.
If you’re ready to grow with a firm that values your expertise and fosters your success, we’d love to hear from you!
Litigation Associate
Join our dynamic team in New York as a Litigation Associate! Are you a litigator with 3-5 years of experience and a New York law license? We want you to bring your exceptional analytical and writing skills to our collaborative environment.
At our firm, we're more than just legal professionals – we're passionate advocates dedicated to achieving the best outcomes for our clients. As part of our close-knit litigation team, you'll have the opportunity to immerse yourself in our renowned IP litigation practice, recognized by industry leaders such as Chambers, Billboard, Variety, and World Trademark Review. Additionally, you'll engage in stimulating general commercial litigation, focusing on cutting-edge industries like media, entertainment, technology, and video games.
This role isn't just about clocking hours – it's about taking ownership. You'll be entrusted with significant responsibility on cases, providing you with hands-on experience in strategy development, motion arguments, deposition taking, and direct client advising.
At MSK, we value your contributions and offer competitive compensation packages, including merit bonuses and billable hours credit for pro bono work and business development.
If you're ready to take your career to the next level with a growing and collaborative firm, we encourage you to apply. Join us and unlock your potential!
Salary range: $232,500-297,000. Compensation commensurate with experience, skill, and knowledge.
attorney openings - Washington, dc
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EOE
MSK offers a competitive compensation and benefits package. If you are looking for an opportunity with a growing, collaborative firm, please apply to recruits@msk.com.
STAFF OPPORTUNITIES - LOS ANGELES
Knowledge Architect Manager
Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp has spent more than a century earning a reputation as a "go-to" firm for sophisticated work, trusted by legacy institutional clients, including some of the entertainment industry's most iconic studios and talent, all without losing the collegiality of a mid-sized practice. With offices in Los Angeles, New York City, and Washington, D.C., our attorneys practice business law with depth across Complex Litigation, Intellectual Property & Technology, Trusts & Estates, Labor & Employment, Entertainment, Tax, Real Estate, and Corporate Business Transactions. We are looking for a motivated Knowledge Architect Manager to support these practices.
Help us redefine what legal knowledge and research look like in an AI-enabled practice.
MSK is looking for a Knowledge Architect Manager to lead the evolution of our research and knowledge management function, from a traditional library model into a modern discipline built for AI-powered legal work. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can manage vendor strategy, guide substantive research, govern institutional knowledge, and serve as the firm's go-to expert on how AI research tools should be used.
If you have watched legal research evolve from print collections to AI-powered tools over the course of your career, and have developed a considered point of view on how that transition should be managed, we would welcome the opportunity to speak with you.
The expected annualized base salary range for this position is $125,000 to $160,000. Actual pay will be adjusted based on experience and other job-related factors permitted by law.
What you'll do
Research & knowledge strategy
- Sit on the firm's administrative management team, shaping strategy for research and knowledge services firm-wide.
- Lead substantive legal, business, and market research for attorneys and practice groups.
- Own the firm's knowledge architecture — precedent banks, practice guides, work-product repositories, and the intranet's practice group resource pages — including the taxonomy, metadata, and provenance standards that keep them usable by people and AI systems alike.
- Partner with practice group leaders to find where institutional knowledge is at risk of being lost, and build systems to capture it.
- Oversee legislative and regulatory tracking relevant to the firm's practices.
Vendor & licensing management
- Manage the firm's full portfolio of research and AI platform licenses (Westlaw, Lexis, specialty databases, GenAI research tools, and more), including renewals, usage analysis, and cost justification.
- Evaluate new AI and research tools as they hit the market, working with our CAIO to make recommendations grounded in real attorney workflow.
- Negotiate contract terms as vendors move away from flat-fee licensing toward seat-based, usage-based, and enterprise models.
- Advise on and enforce copyright compliance and license-restriction awareness across the firm's research subscriptions.
AI governance & training
- Serve as the firm's practical authority on AI research tool use — where it helps, where it introduces risk, and how outputs should be verified before they reach a client deliverable.
- Build and maintain lightweight QA practices — citation checks, hallucination spot-checks — for AI-assisted research.
- Guide attorneys and staff across all levels of AI fluency, from building basic comfort to sharpening judgment for power users.
Team & operational leadership
- Manage a team of research and knowledge professionals, setting priorities and development paths as the team's skill mix evolves.
- Report on utilization, ROI, and adoption metrics for research and AI tools to firm leadership.
What you bring
- 5+ years in legal research, law firm knowledge management, or law librarianship, with a track record of increasing responsibility.
- Demonstrated experience managing vendor relationships and license agreements for legal research or SaaS platforms.
- Working fluency with AI-powered legal research tools, and a clear, well-formed point of view on their appropriate use and limitations.
- Strong research skills spanning legal, business, and market intelligence sources.
- Experience managing or mentoring a team.
Nice to have
- MLIS or JD — not required based on experience.
- Experience building or governing a firm knowledge repository (precedent bank, practice guide system, or similar).
- Familiarity with data stewardship concepts — metadata, taxonomy, provenance — as applied to legal content.
- Experience presenting technology or research strategy recommendations to firm leadership or practice group chairs.
Where this role sits
This role reports to the VP of IT/Service Delivery. You'll manage a team of research and knowledge professionals and work closely with the Firm's CAIO on tool strategy and evaluation.
The Firm offers a competitive salary, attractive benefits, and a pleasant and supportive environment.
EOE
Please submit resume to staffrecruits@msk.com.
Senior Legal Secretary – Litigation
Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, a mid-sized law firm with offices in Los Angeles, New York City, and Washington D.C., is seeking a Senior Legal Secretary to join our team in Los Angeles.
We are looking for a Senior Legal Secretary with experience in traditional litigation, labor & employment, commercial litigation, and/or intellectual property. The position will entail supporting approximately 4 - 5 busy Attorneys. The Firm offers competitive compensation; 401K; medical, vision and dental coverage; life insurance; flexible spending accounts and more. This is a wonderful position for a person seeking an opportunity with a well-respected firm.
The expected annualized base salary range for this position is $90,000 to $110,000. Actual pay will be adjusted based on experience and other job-related factors permitted by law.
Duties of the position include but are not limited to:
- Create and edit drafts of documents such as correspondence, pleadings, discovery demands and responses, requests for production, subpoenas, deposition notices, and other legal documents.
- Prepare final versions of documents: format Microsoft Word documents, create tables of contents and tables of authorities, proofread, etc.
- Handle electronic filings with state and federal courts; handle agency filings/submissions; and retrieval of electronically filed documents.
- Assist in preparation for depositions, court hearings, and trials.
- Manage and organize attorneys’ emails in Outlook and save them in a document management system.
- Enter attorneys’ time on a daily basis.
- Arrange meetings and travel, schedule appointments, and maintain contacts and calendars.
- Process expense reimbursements and process invoices
- Knowledge of court rules and filing procedures, including determining requirements for filing for in varying jurisdictions.
- Communicate by phone/email with clients, court personnel and other legal professionals.
- Prepare court filings using Adobe PDF to assemble pleadings and exhibits, including bookmarking and OCRing.
- Support other litigation secretaries with filings, deposition preparation, and case management.
- Assist other departments and legal secretaries with overflow work.
Other qualifications:
- Undergraduate degree is preferred.
- A minimum of 10 years of legal secretarial experience is preferred.
- Proficiency in legal terminology and procedures.
- Satisfaction working both independently and collaboratively with teams of varying work styles.
- Strong work ethic with ability to produce high-quality work in a consistent and reliable manner.
- Ability to effectively multi-task in a fast-paced work environment, including juggling multiple projects and demands, meeting deadlines, and ensuring accuracy and quality of all work product.
- Experience with Microsoft Office Suite (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook) and Adobe Acrobat.
- Experience in using technology to resolve work challenges.
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
- Proactive personality, positive and enthusiastic attitude, and a willingness to learn.
The Firm offers a competitive salary, attractive benefits, and a pleasant and supportive environment.
EOE
Please submit resume to staffrecruits@msk.com.
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