Litigation Support

Sedwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, LLP.  We are an international trial, litigation and business law firm headquartered in San Francisco. With over 400 attorneys in 15 offices in the US and Europe, we work with the world's largest corporations, insurers and businesses to provide legal strategies that secure outstanding results.

We are currently seeking a talented and experienced Application Developer for our Firmwide office, located in San Francisco. The Application Developer should have at least five to seven years of development experience.

The Application Developer will be responsible for developing applications to meet the needs of the firm as well as the following duties:
• Develops, maintains and supports administrative department applications. Performs transfer of data between systems, implements and test security and monitors database.
• Collaborates in the development and finalization of program specifications and requirements. Designs, develops, test, documents, deploys, maintains and supports custom applications or utilities for use by the firm.
• Develop and deploy software per requirements and design specifications using current firm standard technologies, development tools and methodologies, best practices and design patterns to create an object-oriented architecture which is extensible and reusable.
 • Manage all facets involved with design and implementation of new systems and existing product upgrades, including: needs analysis, requirements, scope definition, and management, budgeting, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, communications, training, support and hand off to day-to-day manager upon completion.
• Work closely with business users to gather and document requirements for new systems and enhancements to existing systems.
• Write test plans and conduct unit, systems integration, alpha and beta testing.
• Work closely with IT Ops and IT Applications to make best use of firm hardware and data infrastructure.
• Provide 3rd tier support to deployed applications, in pilot or production.
 
Experience and Education:

• At least five to seven years of development experience, including web applications and components in the Microsoft. Net application development environment, web parts for Sharepoint, Microsoft Access database applications, scripting, SQL stored procedures, view, etc.
• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent.

Qualifications:

• Working knowledge of Microsoft .Net Framework, Microsoft Visual Studio, C#, Visual Basic, ASP .Net, VBScript, Web Development, IIS, SQL Server, Microsoft Access, Windows Sharepoint Services and Sharepoint Portal Server, XML/XSLT, Workflow Automation Tools.
• Requires the ability to evaluate and translate business requirements to system specifications.
• Must possess strong planning and organizational skills and be able to prioritize, multi-task, and maintain own calendar.
• Strong interpersonal and proactive communication skills to keep other informed of work progress, timing, and issues, and to communicate technical issues clearly to non-technical personnel.
• Capability to identify issues, develop effective solutions and negotiate effectively to find mutually acceptable and practical business solutions.

The firm offers a competitive salary commensurate with experience, excellent benefits, career development, and a casual up-beat work environment.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants are considered for this position based upon their qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, ancestry; marital, disabled or veteran status.

Please email resumes to resumes@sdma.com. Indicate Application Developer in the subject line.

* Local candidates are encouraged to apply.
* Candidates authorized to work in the U.S. as permanent residents please.
* Only qualified candidates will receive a response.

Morgan Lewis is currently seeking a part-time (4 days/week) Enterprise Applications Administrator for its firm-wide Information Technology Department. This position reports to the Manager of Practice Application Services and is primarily responsible for the administration of the Firm's practice specific applications. This is an excellent opportunity for any individual with prior experience to join a dynamic and culturally diverse team of technology professionals working at the forefront of legal tools and technologies.

Morgan Lewis is a large law firm with 23 offices. If your objective is to work for an organization that utilizes state-of-the-art technology in a collaborative work environment where team members support and assist one another, then Morgan Lewis deserves your consideration. We are proud of our reputation for IT excellence and ability to deliver business-oriented results. We look to attract the best of the best IT professionals as we are able to provide a dynamic place to work, personal satisfaction, and a supportive and collegial work environment.

Responsibilities:
• Maintain and improve upon the day to day operational requirements of the practice specific applications
• As a Data Requests Administrator, coordinate and accurately execute on requests for data extractions and aggregation from various internal systems
• System administration of various practice specific applications (Prolaw, CPi, Livenote, & others)
• Other Skills

* Successfully engage and interact with IT staff, other departments, and outside vendors
* Obtain, document and communicate accurate business objectives received from the Firm's practices
* Self motivated and driven to improve on present technical skills, as well as taking advantage of self learning tools

• Service Ownership
* Exercise good judgment with infrastructure systems and related data
* Oversee all the technical aspects of the individual application or solution
* Responsibility for the operational norms and standards of related production servers hosting the practice applications
* Responsibility for the operational norms and standards of the production practice applications
* Responsibility for the communication and coordination of changes and tasks with individual practices as required
* Responsibility for the successful development of a mutually productive relationship with the practices
* Understanding the value of the service to the organization and how it enhances the overall delivery of services to the Firm's clients
* In coordination with the practice, if applicable, anticipating business requirements and its effect on the existing infrastructure
* Consistent and tangible improvements to the service, either in coordination with the practice or self initiated

Requirements:
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical experience preferred.
• 3 + years in an IT Systems Administration capacity, e.g. AD / Exchange system administration
• Impeccable attention to detail
• Willingness and ability to learn and support third party products and technologies as required by the Firm
• Willingness and ability to learn the business aspects of the Firm's Practices and the impact of technology to established and future processes
• Committed to the development, implementation, and improvement of the technology services which are part of the Firm's Practices
• Working knowledge of Microsoft's Windows Server Operating System versions 2003 & 2008; certifications preferred
• Working knowledge of Database systems including: TSQL query / scripting, data cleansing / reconciliation; certifications preferred
• Knowledge of MS Exchange Server systems administration; certifications preferred
• Flexible work schedule to account for scheduled maintenance events and/or off hour issue resolution
• Excellent communication skills with a positive service-oriented demeanor
• Strong analytical, time management, organizational and hands-on problem solving skills
• Ability to work effectively in a team-oriented IT environment
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects
• Results-oriented and a demonstrated ability to work independently
• Friendly and approachable disposition

Morgan Lewis is an equal opportunity employer. MFDV.

All resumes should be submitted through www.morganlewis.com

Morgan Lewis is currently seeking an Client/Server Network Architect for its firm-wide Information Technology Department. This position reports to the Director of Practice Application Services and it's primarily responsible for the administration and architecture of the firm's Marketing Infrastructure. The candidate will be required to visualize, communicate, manage, architect, and improve on the current and future Marketing Services Infrastructure. This is an excellent opportunity for any individual with prior experience to join a dynamic and culturally diverse team of technology professionals working at the forefront of Legal Marketing tools and technologies.

Morgan Lewis is a large law firm with 23 offices. If your objective is to work for an organization that utilizes state-of-the-art technology in a collaborative work environment where team members support and assist one another, then Morgan Lewis deserves your consideration. We are proud of our reputation for IT excellence and ability to deliver business-oriented results. We look to attract the best of the best IT professionals as we are able to provide a dynamic place to work, personal satisfaction, and a supportive and collegial work environment.

Responsibilities:
• Maintain and improve upon the day to day operational requirements of the Marketing Infrastructure for the Firm
• Architect, implement, and maintain Marketing technologies including:

* Client Relationship Management (CRM) System, Interaction
* Electronic Marketing Suite of applications, Tikit eMarketing Suite of Server and Desktop Software
* Java Servelet and Java Server Pages technologies, Apache Tomcat
* Web Server technologies, Microsoft Internet Information Server
* Server Operating Systems, Microsoft Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2 

Perform Infrastructure Lifecycle responsibilities such as:
* Monitoring CPU, Memory, Disk & Network I/O utilization
* Monitoring application availability and recoverability of infrastructure
* Monitoring Cluster resources
* Monitoring Backups
* Optimize performance of infrastructure
* Conduct ongoing logical and physical structural refinements of infrastructure
* Troubleshoot, escalate and resolve production issues
* Continued documentation of Infrastructure
* Capacity planning and trend analysis
* Testing, developing and improving business continuance and disaster recovery plans
* Auditing and adherence to departmental software licensing

Other Skills
• Engage and interact with IT staff, other departments, and outside vendors
• Obtain, document and communicate accurate business objectives received from the Firm's Marketing department
• Self motivated and driven to improve on present technical skills, as well as taking advantage of self learning tools

Service Ownership
• Exercise good judgment with infrastructure systems and related data
• Oversee all the technical aspects of the individual application or solution
• Responsibility for the operational norms and standards of related production servers hosting the business applications
• Responsibility for the operational norms and standards of the production business applications
• Responsibility for the communication and coordination of changes and tasks with individual business units as required
• Responsibility for the successful development of a mutually productive relationship with the business unit
• Understanding the value of the service to the organization and how it enhances the overall delivery of services to the firm's clients
• In coordination with the business unit, if applicable, anticipating business requirements and its effect on the existing infrastructure
• Consistent and tangible improvements to the service, either in coordination with the business unit or self initiated

Requirements:
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical experience preferred.
• Career minded disposition in the area of web based infrastructure technologies
• 5 + years of experience in architecture, implementation and maintenance of Microsoft IIS & Apache Tomcat Web Server technologies; certifications preferred
• Background in supporting CRM (Interaction) and eMarketing (Tikit) suite of applications preferred
• Willingness and ability to learn and support third party marketing technologies and products as required by the Firm
• Willingness and ability to learn the business aspects of the Firm's Marketing Department and the impact of technology to the established processes
• Committed to the development, implementation, and improvement of the technology services which are part of the Marketing technology infrastructure 
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft's Windows Server Operating System versions 2003 & 2008; certifications preferred
• Strong working knowledge of networking concepts specifically around clustering and network load balancing implementation and configuration; certifications preferred
• Working knowledge of Database Administration and Warehouse concepts including: TSQL query / scripting, data cleansing / reconciliation, database backups / restores, ETL processes and lifecycle; certifications preferred
• Strong working knowledge of email / email gateway systems and methodologies
• Flexible work schedule to account for scheduled maintenance events and/or off hour issue resolution
• Excellent communication skills with a positive service-oriented demeanor
• Strong analytical, time management, organizational and hands-on problem solving skills
• Ability to work effectively in a team-oriented IT environment
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects
• Results-oriented and a demonstrated ability to work independently
• Friendly and approachable disposition

Morgan Lewis is an equal opportunity employer. MFDV.

All resumes must be submitted through http://www.morganlewis.com/