Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP

Legal Practice Specialist Location: Chicago United States Job Category: Legal Specialist Requisition Number: LEGAL001754 Full-Time Hybrid Job Description: Kilpatrick, a large international law firm, is seeking a Legal Practice Specialist for our Trusts & Estates team in our Corporate Department in our Chicago, IL office. This position will be part of our team of attorneys, paralegals and support staff providing a high level of service to both internal and external clients. At Kilpatrick we are one team where each person plays an integral role in serving the needs of our clients. The firm has a strong dedication to its employees, values, and commitment to the community. As a member of a legal practice support team, the Legal Practice Specialist is responsible for coordinating the work of team members providing support to multiple timekeepers including Partners, Counsel, Associates, Team Attorneys and Patent Agents. This position both coordinates and provides advanced legal and administrative support requiring in-depth knowledge of legal practice processes. The Legal Practice Specialist is also expected to provide support as needed to other teams and attorneys when the need arises. This position works very closely with other Legal Practice Specialists and Legal Practice Coordinators to provide enhanced legal administrative support coverage and to balance the tasks and assignments among the team members. ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: - Manage case workflow and case support - Prioritize, coordinate, and manage work assignments, working very closely with the team, to meet the support needs of the timekeepers - Utilize available firm resources, including the Resource Center, Research and Information Services, Marketing, Records, Mail and Copy Services, New Business Intake and Finance - Provide quality control and deadline management - Initiate and monitor docketing with CompuLaw system and monitor trial calendars - Assist other support members on the team to complete timekeeper requests - Research facts, court rules, and case law - Draft pleadings, file court documents - Create, revise, transcribe, format and edit pleadings, legal documents, briefs and correspondence to requested specifications - Assist in the preparation of motions - Prepare Table of Authority and Table of Contents - Coordinate logistics and prepare documents for depositions, mediations and arbitrations - Proofread and redline documents, correspondence and memoranda to ensure accuracy and quality control of copy, grammar, spelling, and punctuation - Prepare binders and hard copy materials as requested - Manage mailings, client contacts and update appropriate databases - Prepare reports, PowerPoint presentations, tables and Excel documents as requested - Assist with calendar coordination as needed, including availability of attendees and conference rooms, meeting notification and reminders, and preparation of meeting materials - Coordinate travel arrangements, including air, hotel, and car plans for timekeeper off-site meetings and events as needed - Process expense reimbursements and credit card statement reconciliations in accounting system - Open new clients and matters following New Business Intake and Records Departments' procedures as needed - Perform routine filing, photocopying, scanning, faxing, compiling and distributing of documents. KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS REQUIRED: - Bachelor's degree and/or Certificate from an ABA-approved program preferred - Minimum of five years of experience supporting attorneys in estate planning and trust administration in a law firm setting - Ability to work with complex, heavily formatted documents and revise documents from transcription - Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint), DocuSign, and in docketing software (Compulaw, preferred) - Well versed in legal terminology, processes and definitions and of all phases of discovery and trial - Extensive knowledge of available legal resources and references materials - Ability to work with a variety of software and to quickly learn new programs such as Relativity, Concordance, Lexis/Nexis, e-mail and internet - Ability to work on a team while displaying excellent client service acumen and supporting multiple legal professionals - Ability to accept multiple assignments, work on a team to complete the assignments, and coordinate various resources as needed - Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills - Excellent service orientation and teamwork skills - Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines - Strong organizational skills with the ability to effectively time-manage, prioritize, and complete simultaneous assignments - Ability to meet the demands of trial work - Ability to read and understand legal documents - Excellent attention to detail with the ability to draft, format, and proofread legal documents - Maintain confidentiality of client information - Ability to work with limited supervision This is a full-time, regular position with a multi-faceted health benefit package including medical, dental, and vision. The firm also offers life insurance, short term disability plans and retirement plans in addition to holidays and paid time off. The firm offers hybrid work schedules combining in office work days as well as remote work days. The pay range for this position in Chicago is $35.59 to $52.64 per hour.

Title: Senior AI Developer Location: San Francisco United States, Silicon Valley Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA San Francisco San Francisco, CA 94111, USA Walnut Creek Walnut Creek, CA 94596, USA Job Category: Information Technology Requisition Number: SENIO001755 - Full-Time - Remote Job Description: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP is a premier Am Law 100 multinational law firm with 22 offices worldwide, known for its intellectual property, corporate litigation, and technology practices. The firm's AI Innovation team builds and ships production AI systems that serve hundreds of users across the firm and is expanding to a client-facing portal. We work with the latest platforms from Anthropic and Microsoft, run agentic workflows in production, and maintain a growing network of Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations that connect AI agents to enterprise systems. This is a small team with startup-like autonomy inside a global enterprise. At Kilpatrick we are one team where each person plays an integral role in serving the needs of our clients. The firm has a strong dedication to its employees, values, and commitment to the community. We are looking for a Senior AI Developer, fully remote, to help shape the future of AI at the firm. This is an individual contributor role with significant technical ownership. You will design and deploy agentic AI systems, scale our internal platforms, extend our MCP infrastructure, and help define the technical roadmap for AI adoption. Our AI systems are in production today, serving the firm at scale. We are looking for someone who is ready to contribute immediately to an active, fast-moving development environment. Your first 6 to 12 months will focus on: - Scaling document intelligence and RAG pipelines to handle millions of enterprise documents with high retrieval accuracy - Expanding agentic workflows and AI skills that automate complex, multi-step legal and operational tasks - Strengthening the MCP integration layer with new tool connections, improved security, and increased reliability What You Will Do - Help define the technical roadmap for AI adoption, contributing to build-vs-buy decisions, vendor evaluations, and architectural direction - Architect multi-agent systems and agentic workflows using tool use, function calling, planner-executor pipelines, agent swarms, and autonomous task decomposition - Build and maintain AI skills: self-contained automation workflows that run in their own execution context with quality assurance verification - Design context management strategies including RAG, semantic search, vector embedding pipelines, conversation compaction, long-term memory management, and grounding - Extend our MCP server network with new tool integrations, dynamic server discovery, gateway architectures, OAuth 2.1 auth flows, audit logging, and sandboxed execution - Build real-time streaming interfaces that surface AI-generated insights, citations, and structured outputs - Engineer solutions for large-scale data challenges across millions of documents, patent databases, and enterprise systems - Implement guardrails, evaluation pipelines, and data governance standards appropriate for a regulated legal environment - Evaluate and integrate new models, APIs, and capabilities as they ship from Anthropic, Microsoft, and other providers - Act as an internal AI consultant: gather requirements from attorneys and legal staff, translate business needs into technical solutions, and deliver AI-powered workflow systems that streamline legal and operational processes Our Stack Anthropic (Claude, Agent SDK, MCP) | Azure OpenAI | Azure AI Foundry | Semantic Kernel | Azure AI Search | Azure Document Intelligence | C# / .NET | React / TypeScript | Node.js | SQL Server | SignalR | SSE Streaming Required Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field preferred - Proven experience in AI architecture, agent-based systems, or intelligent automation, with a minimum of 5 years in a similar role. - Demonstrated experience building agentic AI systems with tool use, function calling, and multi-step workflow execution in production - Strong working knowledge of the Anthropic platform (Claude models, Messages API, streaming, extended thinking, Claude Agent SDK) - Experience with Microsoft AI services (Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, Semantic Kernel, or related offerings) - Experience with MCP or similar AI-to-tool integration frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, custom pipelines, or equivalent) - Experience building RAG pipelines, semantic search, and document intelligence workflows at scale - Proficiency with real-time streaming architectures (SSE, WebSockets, Streamable HTTP) and enterprise auth (OAuth 2.0/2.1, Azure AD/Entra ID) - Ability to work across the stack: backend APIs, streaming infrastructure, frontend interfaces - Proficiency with AI-native development platforms (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar) over expertise in any single language - Track record of independently solving complex, ambiguous problems and shipping working solutions - Experience with the professional services industry is a plus. Preferred Qualifications - Understanding of ML fundamentals: fine-tuning (LoRA, QLoRA, PEFT), evaluation metrics, NLP tasks, and MLOps/LLMOps practices - Familiarity with ML frameworks (PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, scikit-learn) - Experience with large-scale data processing: millions of documents, vector embedding pipelines, enterprise databases - Knowledge of large law firm operations, IP workflows, or enterprise document management systems (iManage, NetDocuments) What Success Looks Like In your first year, you will have: - Expanded the reach of our AI platforms across users, use cases, and connected enterprise systems - Shipped production agentic workflows that complete complex tasks with minimal human intervention - Improved retrieval accuracy and reduced hallucination rates in RAG pipelines over large document corpora - Built new MCP integrations that connect AI agents to previously inaccessible enterprise data - Contributed evaluation pipelines, monitoring, and guardrails that increase confidence in shipping faster Why KT - Production AI at scale. Our AI platforms are in daily use across the firm, with a clear roadmap for continued expansion. - Modern technology stack. Work with the latest platforms from Anthropic and Microsoft, including production MCP integrations and agentic workflows. - Autonomy and ownership. Significant influence over technical decisions, architecture, and the direction of AI at the firm. - Global reach. Serve attorneys and professionals across 22 offices worldwide and a client-facing AI portal. - Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits commensurate with the market for senior AI talent. This is a full-time, regular position with a multi-faceted health benefit package including medical, dental, and vision. The firm also offers life insurance, short term disability plans and retirement plans in addition to holidays and paid time off. The firm offers hybrid work schedules combining in office work days as well as remote work days. The pay range for this position in California only is $180,000 to $250,000 annually. Selected applicants will be contacted. Kilpatrick is an Equal Opportunity Employer. For more information about our firm, please visit our website at www.ktslaw.com. Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP is committed to equal employment opportunity for all persons, regardless of race, color, religion, sex or gender, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

Title: Trademark Analyst Location: San Francisco United States Job category: IP - General Requisition number: TRADE001753 - Full-time - Hybrid - Locations Showing more locations New York New York, NY 10036, USA Atlanta Atlanta, GA 303094528, USA San Francisco San Francisco, CA 94111, USA Seattle Seattle, WA 98101, USA Job Description: Kilpatrick, a large international law firm, is seeking a Trademark Analyst for the Intellectual Property Department in our New York, Atlanta, Seattle or San Francisco office. This position will be primarily supporting the Greater China Practice Team within the Trademark and Copyright Group, working closely with attorneys, paralegals and support staff providing a high level of service to both internal and external clients. At Kilpatrick we are one team where each person plays an integral role in serving the needs of our clients. The firm has a strong dedication to its employees, values, and commitment to the community. Under the general supervision of department attorneys, client teams and paralegals, the Trademark Analyst will work as part of a collaborative team providing legal services to clients. Principal responsibilities include supporting trademark clearance, prosecution, maintenance, and enforcement matters, as well as providing administrative and billable support to trademark client teams. ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: Perform trademark clearance, prosecution, and enforcement tasks, including but not limited to: - Review and translate official notices and registrations for accuracy. - Assist with powers of attorneys and legalizations. - Draft reporting and reminder letters to clients. - Assist with post-registration maintenance, including conduct related use analysis and renewals. - Prepare client team deliverables in preferred formats, including charts, agendas, and spreadsheets. - Conduct research regarding trademark use, company registration information, and potential infringement activities on websites and social media platforms. - Update client docket databases with prosecution developments. - Maintain prosecution status updates charts and assist with preparing weekly client meeting agendas. - Support various other trademark-related projects as needed, both administrative and legal. KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS REQUIRED: - Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience - Fluent Mandarin Chinese language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing), including the ability to conduct research using and translating Chinese-language materials is highly preferred - Excellent command of the English language, both oral and written. - Highly proficient with Microsoft Office Suite. - Excellent communication and organizational skills. - Ability to prioritize work independently and proactively. - Ability to manage deadlines effectively. - Demonstrated honesty, confidentiality, and ethical conduct. - Strong problem-solving skills and ability to multitask effectively. - Strong orientation toward detail; strong editing and proofreading abilities. - Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and perform well under pressure. - Cooperative, flexible, and team-orientated attitude. - Availability to work after hours and weekends, as needed. This is a full-time, regular position with a multi-faceted health benefit package including medical, dental, and vision. The firm also offers life insurance, short term disability plans and retirement plans in addition to holidays and paid time off. The firm offers hybrid work schedules combining in office work days as well as remote work days. The pay range for this position in New York only is $37.36 to $46.70 per hour, and in Atlanta, Seattle and San Francisco is $34.87 to $43.59 per hour. Selected applicants will be contacted. Kilpatrick is an Equal Opportunity Employer. For more information about our firm, please visit our website at www.ktslaw.com. Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP is committed to equal employment opportunity for all persons, regardless of race, color, religion, sex or gender, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

• Lead and manage litigation teams in complex commercial matters in federal and state courts across the United States. • Represent banks, master servicers, special servicers, CMBS trusts, insurance companies, and other lenders. • Handle litigation and loan servicing matters relating to commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS). • Manage contested bankruptcy matters, UCC sales, mezzanine loan enforcement, and replevin actions. • Protect lenders’ interests in loans secured by hotels, retail properties, office and industrial assets, multifamily and healthcare properties, ground leases, and pledged personal property interests. • Defend financial institutions in lender liability actions, including claims involving breach of contract and fraud. • Handle complex business disputes involving contracts, franchise agreements, real estate matters, and shareholder disputes. • Represent clients in arbitration proceedings, including before the American Arbitration Association (AAA).