Full-service law firm with eight national offices serving Fortune 500 and middle-market clients
Thompson Coburn is a 501–1,000-person partnership operating across eight offices (St. Louis, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Birmingham, Southern Illinois, Washington D.C.) with a tech stack heavy on Microsoft enterprise (365, Dynamics, Exchange, Azure) and litigation-focused tools (Relativity, iManage, Workshare). Active projects cluster around ediscovery lifecycle management and litigation tech adoption, while pain points flag expanding litigation capacity, data cleansing bottlenecks, and hybrid infrastructure maintenance—signals of a firm scaling legal operations while modernizing discovery workflows.
Notable leadership hires: End-User Technology Lead
Thompson Coburn is a values-driven law partnership representing Fortune 500 companies, middle-market firms, and emerging enterprises across transportation, healthcare, agtech, and higher education sectors. The firm operates a national platform spanning eight offices and manages a diverse practice portfolio requiring deep industry expertise. Hiring velocity is steady, with legal roles dominating the active headcount (45 legal out of 78 posted roles), and staffing gaps in litigation team expansion and after-hours support. Operations and IT infrastructure span hybrid cloud (Azure, VMware, Citrix) and on-premise systems, with a stated focus on ediscovery capabilities and security compliance.
Enterprise Microsoft (365, Dynamics 365, Azure, Exchange), litigation platforms (Relativity, iManage, Workshare), virtualization (VMware, Nutanix, Citrix), networking (Cisco, FortiGate), and backup/archival (Cohesity). Infrastructure spans Windows Server, Azure Entra ID, and Intune for device management.
Eight offices: St. Louis (headquarters), Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Birmingham, Southern Illinois, and Washington D.C.
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