Manager, New Business Projects

Firm Summary

White & Case is one of the world’s largest and most prestigious law firms, with more than 2,600 lawyers located across 47 offices on six continents. White & Case is among the first US-based law firms to establish a truly global presence. The firm has practices – both transactional and disputes – ranked at the top of the market. The firm’s client base includes many of the world’s most respected financial institutions, companies, most promising start-up visionaries, and governmental organizations.

White & Case has a strong, fundamental, client-service orientation, and the firm conducts its business according to three core values: 

• • Pioneering – Seizing opportunities to innovate and grow
  • United – Acting as “one firm” with a shared sense of purpose
  • Human – Caring about its people and the wider world that the firm operates in

White & Case believes their competitive advantage comes from staying at the forefront of what they do and bringing industry expertise and insights to its clients. Their clients and the firm benefit when they work together to provide the best solutions. Their relationships – with each other, their clients, and the wider world – gives their work meaning. These relationships also provide opportunities to innovate in relation to how we provide our services including through use of technology, legal project management and innovative pricing. 

In both established and emerging markets, White & Case professionals are integral, longstanding members of the community. The firm was founded in New York in 1901 and, today, White & Case professionals represent 90 nationalities and speak more than 80 languages.

White & Case has a strong reputation as one of the best-managed law firms in the world, and it has evolved best-in-class capabilities across its broad areas of business operations. It has also been recognized consistently as one of the most innovative law firms in the world and has innovation as a key part of its 2025 strategy.

It is our firm’s interconnected ethos that our people and our clients value most. We work well together across geographic and practice boundaries, which is a primary reason we attract and retain sophisticated cross-border work and attract a diverse group of people to learn, share, innovate, and shape the firm’s future together.

Our people are globally minded, enterprising, collaborative, and committed to excellence. Diversity is a core value of our firm, for which we have received recognition with numerous awards and top rankings around the world.

Position Summary

This Manager of New Business Projects, OGC and NBAC will support the Office of the General Counsel (“OGC”) and the New Business Acceptance Committee (“NBAC”), a partner-led key strategic decision-making body which manages business conflicts and monitors client intake associated risks for the Firm. The position will analyze business risks and provide project management capabilities to support the NBAC mandate and new business initiatives within the OGC

The role will support the work of the OGC and the NBAC and will require frequent interaction with members of other Firm Committees and Business Services teams as well as partners of the Firm.  

The position will involve significant exposure to the Firm’s senior leadership. It is anticipated that the duties and accountabilities of the role will expand and evolve over time.

Duties and Accountabilities1

• Support the OGC on new business initiatives 
• Work closely with the Office of the General Counsel, Head of Strategic Projects on tracking and reporting to OGC leadership and Firm management on relevant projects
• Utilize MS Teams and Office 365 platforms in project management methods, communications with team members and stakeholders and reporting
• Facilitate the NBAC decision making process:
  • Coordinate and facilitate committee meetings, record and circulate meeting notes, document outcomes, prepare the meeting agenda, and work with stakeholders to address follow on actions
  • Gather background information and manage NBAC approvals of certain new business matters