Sterlington PLLC

Title: Legal Operations Practice Manager Job Description: Reports to: Head of Corporate/M&A Practice Department: Corporate/M&A Location: 100% Remote Working Hours: Eastern Standard Time (EST) Our Firm: Sterlington PLLC is a full-service law firm focusing on complex corporate, litigation, executive compensation, and private wealth matters. As a firm, we focus on the economic as well as the legal aspects of our matters. Among other strengths, Sterlington is the ultimate law firm for founders, senior executives, and UHNWIs as well as their related businesses. Learn more at: www.sterlingtonlaw.com The Opportunity Sterlington is looking for a Legal Operations Practice Manager to implement AI workflows and oversee the execution layer of a Senior Partner's Corporate and M&A practice — a high-volume, high-stakes environment serving founders, executives, and private capital clients on some of the most consequential transactions of their careers. This role sits at the center of the practice, ensuring that complex, multi-party matters progress with clarity, continuity, and control — bringing structure to evolving priorities, maintaining visibility across all active workstreams, and ensuring that commitments, internal and external, are delivered without friction. You will ensure that the operational dimension of the practice is reliable, anticipatory, and unobtrusive — working in alignment with the broader support infrastructure of the firm, never duplicating it. What You'll Do: - AI‑Driven Process Innovation: Drive continuous improvement by refining workflows for greater operational efficiency and scalability, while integrating AI tools in a measured, high‑judgment manner to enhance matter tracking, document summarization, and internal coordination. - Matter Management: Maintain end-to-end visibility and structured tracking across all active matters — overseeing status, timelines, dependencies, and client-facing commitments within a high-volume transactional practice to ensure clarity and control without unnecessary process overhead. - Stakeholder Management: Coordinate seamlessly across attorneys, co-counsel, clients, and external counterparties to advance complex, multi-party transactions, while serving as the primary liaison for internal and service-provider stakeholders on behalf of the managing partner—driving follow-through, accountability, and timely escalation where needed. - Decision Support: Prepare concise, decision-ready matter summaries and status updates that allow the senior partner to act quickly and with confidence and then drive execution for those actions. - Risk Mitigation: Anticipate gaps, misalignments, and potential delays — and resolve them before they surface. - AI‑Driven Process Innovation: Drive continuous improvement by refining workflows for greater operational efficiency and scalability, while integrating AI tools in a measured, high‑judgment manner to enhance matter tracking, document summarization, and internal coordination. - Pipeline Management: Support transaction pipeline visibility and business development follow-through in coordination with the senior partner. What Success Looks Like - Full matter visibility established within 30 days: status, timelines, and commitments tracked with precision across the entire practice - The senior partner operates with complete situational awareness, without having to ask for it - Manual workflows are replaced by AI-enabled processes - System scalability is enhanced, and plans for further scalability projects are planned out - Execution becomes more predictable as complexity and volume grow What We're Looking For: - Hands-on AI fluency: You have built and deployed workflows in a professional context - Experience in practice management, legal operations, or transactional coordination within a law firm or professional services environment - Legal background preferred: J.D. or equivalent; US corporate and M&A familiarity is a strong plus - Native or full professional English fluency required - Structured, systems-oriented mindset — you introduce clarity without over-engineering Full-time employees are eligible for enrollment in our Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plans, as well as our 401(k)-retirement program. Sterlington uses E-Verify to confirm employees' work authorization At Sterlington, we believe that world-class talent has no boundaries. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where unique perspectives are valued and every individual has the opportunity to thrive. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply.

Title: Quantitative Analyst – Legal & Financial Structures Location: United States Job Description: Reports to: Head of Corporate/M&A Practice Department: Corporate/M&A Location: 100% Remote Working Hours: Eastern Standard Time (EST) Our Firm Sterlington PLLC is a full-service law firm focusing on complex corporate, litigation, executive compensation, and private wealth matters. As a firm, we focus on the economic as well as the legal aspects of our matters. Among other strengths, Sterlington is the ultimate law firm for founders, senior executives, and UHNWIs as well as their related businesses. The Opportunity Sterlington not only documents deals, we cut deals for clients. As part of that, we play something close to a financial / banker role in analyzing deal structures and executive compensation arrangements. We are looking for someone who can help us model and understand transactions and executive compensation arrangements from a numerical perspective. Our philosophy is that we need people trained to think logically and systematically, and equipped to operate with modern analysis tools (high expertise in AI modeling and Excel). This role sits at the intersection of math, finance, law, and business, and is designed for someone who is intellectually rigorous and genuinely enjoys untangling complexity. You will work directly with the head of the corporate / M&A practice, and senior partners in those practices. This is a rare opportunity for a mathematically and financially disciplined thinker who combines first-principles reasoning with AI fluency, applying both to high-stakes, real-world situations alongside individuals operating at the highest levels of decision-making. What You’ll Do - Integrate AI-assisted workflows into your day-to-day work to enhance speed, depth, and accuracy of analysis - Analyze and model complex business, executive compensation, structure and financial arrangements to extract underlying economic logic and value drivers - Map ownership, incentive, and value-distribution structures across multiple scenarios - Stress-test assumptions and identify points of economic sensitivity and hidden risk - Build and refine analytical models and frameworks used on live client matters - Contribute to the evolution of AI-enabled analytical practices within the firm What Success Looks Like - Your analysis directly informs structuring decisions, negotiations, and risk assessment - You demonstrate strong judgment in separating signal from noise in dense materials - You effectively integrate AI into your workflow, using it to enhance — not replace — your reasoning What We’re Looking For - PhD or Master’s degree in Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, finance, or a closely related quantitative field - Expertise in using AI tools in a professional context to model and analyze data - Comfortable operating independently in a remote, high-performance environment - Strong judgment - Prior experience in law is not required. Full-time employees are eligible for enrollment in our Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plans, as well as our 401(k)-retirement program. Sterlington uses E-Verify to confirm employees' work authorization. At Sterlington, we believe that world-class talent has no boundaries. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where unique perspectives are valued and every individual has the opportunity to thrive. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply.