Chief Information Officer

About This Role

This Chief Information Officer (CIO) role is a strategic partnership with the executive leadership team, focusing on shaping and advancing the firm's technology strategy to strengthen performance, resilience, service delivery, and competitive advantage. The leader oversees the technology function with an emphasis on system performance, reliability, disciplined execution, modernization, and security, ensuring the firm stays current with evolving technology. The CIO will lead the continued maturation of the Technology Division by advancing critical technology initiatives and building a high-performing, collaborative organization that equips attorneys and business professionals and enables the firm's broader strategic and operational success.

Responsibilities

• Strengthen day-to-day IT operations, leadership cadence, accountability, and service delivery across the Technology Division
• Lead execution of major technology initiatives, including endpoint and operating system deployments, cloud migration of core legal and collaboration platforms, hardware standardization, and related change management with minimal disruption to users
• Assess and mature the firm's information security program, including SOPs, policy reinforcement, incident response readiness, and remediation planning
• Shape and operationalize a multi-year IT strategic plan and roadmap with KPIs, budget discipline, vendor governance, and useful transparency to firm leadership
• Shape and execute a multi-year technology strategy and roadmap, with clear priorities, KPIs, and governance, that advances the firm's business objectives and improves the effectiveness, efficiency, and value of information systems
• Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and high performance while strengthening day-to-day IT operations, service delivery, and a client-service mindset across the Technology Division
• Build and maintain a resilient technology environment that delivers reliable, secure, and responsive IT services and supports attorneys and business professionals at the highest level
• Lead complex enterprise technology initiatives, including platform modernization, cloud migrations, endpoint lifecycle and operating system deployments, messaging and collaboration improvements, document management initiatives, and related change management
• Assess and mature the firm's information security program, including governance, policies, SOPs, user awareness, incident response readiness, and remediation planning
• Implement modern governance, operational processes, and industry best practices, including project and portfolio management disciplines, financial stewardship, strategic resource planning, vendor governance, and transparent executive reporting
• Establish trusted partnerships with firm leadership, attorneys, and administrative stakeholders by delivering transparent communication, disciplined execution, and technology solutions aligned with firm priorities