Executive Coordinator, Office of the General Counsel

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

The Head of Staff to the General Counsel plays a pivotal role in supporting the seamless functioning of the Office of the General Counsel (OGC) and will work with the Firm’s Executive Committee and its Media Relations, Marketing, Legal Project Management, Finance and Technology teams to aid the delivery of exceptional legal services by the OGC to the Firm. This role requires outstanding organizational skills, discretion, and the ability to manage a wide range of responsibilities efficiently and handle confidential information with the utmost professionalism. The Head of Staff manages the OGC’s calendar, coordinates travel arrangements and processes expense reports. The Head of Staff will work closely with a range of internal and external stakeholders to support the OGC’s effectiveness. This position calls for a self-motivated individual who demonstrates a proactive attitude and takes personal initiative in completing tasks. The individual must be an excellent communicator, consistently and accurately reporting information to key stakeholders. The Head of Staff will foster positive working relationships at all levels of the Firm and assist in navigating the organization on behalf of assigned members of the Office of the General Counsel.

Duties and Accountabilities

• Act as a liaison between the General Counsel and senior Firm stakeholders, other team members, departments, and various external parties to maintain excellent lines of communication with internal and external stakeholders.
• Anticipate the needs of the OGC, proactively identify opportunities to streamline processes, improve efficiency, and enhance productivity within the OGC and assist in